Philosophy 355: Contemporary Philosophy
Russell Marcus, Instructor. Email me.
Hamilton College, Fall 2008
Newton
Locke
Mill
Hempel
Turing
Place
Smullyan
Jackson
Fodor
Kripke
Churchland
Stich
Mack
Brook
Maudlin
Beebee
Schneider
Course Material
Links to Sites I Recommend for This Course
David Chalmers' Unbelievable Directory of Papers on Consciousness
Smart, "Sensations and Brain Processes"
Feigl, "The 'Mental' and the 'Physical'"
A Study Guide for Block's "Troubles with Functionalism" and Outline of the Argument
Thomas Nagel on Intelligent Design
H.G. Wells, "The Country of the Blind"
Zombies Zombies. Also: Zombies. (from Pete Mandik)
Wittgenstein, from Philosophical Investigations
Mersenne and Descartes on the minds of animals
Pat Churchland: Philosophy in the Age of Neuroscience
Shannon, "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"
The Eureka Hunt, on insight
Experimental Philosophy against Intuition, and Joshua Knobe
A sensory homunculus; a motor homunculus; the two, together
An Inattention Blindness Demonstration
Pete Mandik's Website, including bunches of his papers
Indiana Undergraduate Journal of Cognitive Science
Fodor on Kripke and Intuitions
Does Kripke rely too heavily on intuitions?
Goodman's New Riddle of Induction
Railton, on probabilistic explanation
Van Fraassen's Laws and Symmetry: Symposium, list of secondary sources
The European Philosophy of Science meeting
The Metaphysics of Science, Helen Beebee's research project
David Rosenthal, on why we study the history of philosophy
Other Philosophy Links
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Philosophy Research Network, home to philosophy papers in progress
MIT's Philosophy and Linguistics Courses
Eddie Yeghiayan's Philosophy Bibliographies
Brian Leiter's Philosophy Blog
Thoughts, Arguments and Rants, Brian Weatherson's Philosophy Blog
The American Philosophical Association
The BBC's In Our Time Radio Show, including a philosophy quiz
TED, a Collection of Interesting Videos
Writing Help
Jim Pryor's guide to writing philosophy papers
Philosophy paper-writing strategies, from Williams College
The Science of Scientific Writing
Calls for Papers
A list of journals and conferences appropriate for undergraduates
Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference in Consciousness
Towards a Science of Consciousness Conference
The European Philosophy of Science meeting
Fun
Philosophy and Settlers, T-Shirts and more!
The Unemployed Philosophers Guild
From, "What Philosophy Majors Do After College"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy
The Gutless Meanies, with guest stars, Minstrel!
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Descartes
Hume
Skinner
Wittgenstein
Quine
Putnam
Nagel
Rorty
Lewis
Block
Dennett
Chalmers
Weiskrantz
Mandik
Carroll
Loewer
Rabern