Reading list
1. The textbook for the course, which contains most of the readings, is: Lycan, W. G. & J. J. Prinz (eds, 2008), Mind and Cognition, 3rd ed., Oxford: Blackwell.
You should purchase a copy of the book, which is available at Academica.
2. For an introductory overview, the textbook for FIL1001:
Kim, J. (2006), Philosophy of Mind , 2nd ed. 2006. Boulder, Colorado: Westview.
which most of you will have studied, will serve very well. Refresh your memory of it, or read chapters you hadn’t previously, if you would like a primer.
3. Bibliopgrahical details of items of key readings on the Detailed Teaching Plan that are not contained in our textbook:
Aydede, Murat, "The Language of Thought Hypothesis", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2010 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.). Download
Boghossian, P., (1989), ‘Content and Self-Knowledge’, Philosophical Topics 17: 5-26. Available at :http://www.csmn.uio.no/homepages/timothy-chan/Docs/self-knowledge-readings/Boghossian%201989%20Content%20%26%20Self%20Knowledge.pdf
Levin, Janet, ‘Functionalism’, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2010 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.). Download
Nichols, S. (2002), ‘Folk Psychology’, in L. Nadel (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, London: Nature Publishing Group. Download
Robb, David and Heil, John, "Mental Causation", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2009 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.). Download
Tye, Michael, "Qualia", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2009 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.). Download
Van Gulick, Robert, "Consciousness", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2009 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.). Download
4. Some useful reference books:
Guttenplan, S. (ed., 1994), A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind. Oxford: Blackwell.
McLaughlin, B. P. & A. Beckermann (eds., 2009), Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Stich, S. & T. A. Warfield (eds., 2003), The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Mind. Oxford: Blackwell.
5. Further Readings on particular topics will be given in the lecture notes.