Introductory lectures on philosophy of mind and philosophy of science for the Interdisciplinary Graduate Programme in the Brain and Mind Sciences, University of Crete, March 2025.
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- Introduction to Cartesian Dualism — A lecture by Oxford philosopher Peter Millican
- George Berkeley and Idealism — Another lecture by Peter Millican
- Jacques de Vaucanson – Biography, History and Inventions — An article
- History of Robots: Jaques de Vaucanson: Pooping Robot Duck & the Flute Playing Automaton — A short podcast
- René Descartes, Discourse on Method, Part V
- ‘Linguistics and Descartes’ by Noam Chomsky
Supplementary materials
- The Rise of Physicalism by David Papineau — An article explaining how scientists came to adopt a physicalist view of the world. Highly recommended.
- Gilbert Ryle and J. O. Urmson – Philosophy of Mind — Film of Ryle and Urmson talking about philosophy of mind.
- Beyond the Fringe on Oxford Philosophy — A satire of 1950s Oxford philosophy
- ‘Theyre Made out of Meat’ by Terry Bisson
- ‘Big Thinkers’ profile of Daniel Dennett
Extras
- Samuel Johnson (Wikipedia entry for eighteenth-century English poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer )
- Everybody’s Boswell (an abridged version of James Boswell’s The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.)
- The League of Gentleman (British comedy horror sitcom)
- Psychoville (horror-thriller black comedy mystery)
- Inside No. 9 (British black comedy anthology series)
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- Alan Turing, Computing Machinery and Intelligence — A classic paper
- Jerry Fodor Interview on Philosophy of Mind
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- When Blindsight is 20/20 — A short introduction to blindsight
- How do you explain consciousness? — TED talk by David Chalmers
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The Illusionist View of Consciousness: A series of six lectures by Keith for The Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies
- Lecture 1: The Illusionist Option
- Lecture 2: The Case Against Qualia
- Lecture 3: The Case for Illusionism
- Lecture 4: Objections to Illusionism
- Lecture 5: Varieties of Illusionism
- Lecture 6: Implications of Illusionism
