Neuro / Philosophy Discussion Group
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Meetings 2005

Date Topic Reading

Feb 24 Scientific Indeterminism Paul Glimcher, Indeterminism in Brain and Behavior
in Annu. Rev. Psychol 2005, 56:25-56


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Past Meetings


2004

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



2003

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)


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Revised: Feb 22, 2005