Neuro / Philosophy Discussion Group | |
An informal discussion group devoted to problems
of philosophy and neuroscience |
Date | Topic | Reading |
Feb 24 | Scientific Indeterminism | Paul Glimcher, Indeterminism
in Brain and Behavior in Annu. Rev. Psychol 2005, 56:25-56 |
Date | Topic | Reading |
Mar 17 | Consciousness | Thomas Nagel, What is
it like to be a bat? in The Philosophical Review LXXXIII, 4 (October 1974): 435-50 |
May 6 | Consciousness | Patricia Churchland, The Hornswoggle Problem |
Dec 16 | A.I. and Neurosci. | Levels and
loops: the future of artificial intelligence and neuroscience, by Tony Bell. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B (1999) 354: 2013-2020 |
Date | Topic | Reading |
Apr 24 | Free Will | Chapter 5 from Patricia Churchland's book Brain-Wise: Studies in Neurophilosophy |
Aug 21 | Consciousness | David Chalmers: "Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness" (html) |
Sept 30 | the Turing Test | Alan Turing: "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" reproduced in MIND: A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy. Vol LIX, No 236, October 1950 |
Dec 4 | Mind-Body Problem | Descartes: "Meditations On First Philosophy"     mediations I, II, and VI (html) |