David Braun

 

Announcements

•          Instructor: David Braun, Lattimore 525, (585) 275-8107, david.braun@rochester.edu, office hours Mondays 2:00-4:00.

•          Class meetings are MWF 11:00-11:50 am in Dewey 2110-E.

•          The first paper assignment is due (by e-mail) at 10:00 am, Monday, September 25.

•          There will be no class on Friday, September 29.

•          The second paper assignment is due (by e-mail) at 10:00 am, Friday, October 13.

•          The first examination will occur on Friday, October 27, during our usual class time (11:00-11:50 am) at our usual location for class lectures (Dewey 2110-E).

•          There will be no class on Wednesday, November 22.

•          The third paper assignment is due (by e-mail) at 10:00 am, Wednesday, November 29.

•          There will be no class on Friday, December 1.

 

 

Downloads

•          Syllabus

•          Arguments handout

•          Extraction, explanation, and evaluation handout

•          Citations handout

•          First paper assignment

•          Second paper assignment

•          Study guide for the first examination

•          Third paper assignment

 

 

Links

•          “Descartes’s Life and Works,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

•          “Dualism,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

•          “Behaviorism,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

•          Alex Byrne. 1994. “Behaviorism.” From S. Guttenplan (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind. Oxford: Blackwell. On Byrne’s website

•          “The Identity Theory of Mind,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

•          “Functionalism,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

•          Ned Block. 1996. “What is Functionalism?” The Encyclopedia of Philosophy Supplement. Macmillan, posted on Block’s website.

•          “Qualia,” Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy

•          Ned Block. 2004. “Qualia.” In R. Gregory (ed.), Oxford Companion to the Mind, 2^nd ed., posted on Block’s website.

•          “Inverted Qualia,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

•          “Qualia: the Knowledge Argument,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

•          “Language of Thought Hypothesis,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

•          Ned Block, “The Mind as the Software of the Brain,” From D. Osherson, L. Gleitman, S. Kosslyn, E. Smith and S. Sternberg (eds.), An Invitation to Cognitive Science, MIT Press, (1995), posted on Block’s website.