| On reading and writing philosophy |
Pryor. "Guidelines on Reading Philosophy"
Pryor. "Guidelines on Writing a Philosophy Paper" |
| The External World and Other Minds |
Russell. "Our Knowledge of the External World "
Some additional readings:
Bouwsma. "Descartes Evil Genius"
Zombies on the Web (Chalmers)
Polger. "Zombies"
Lem. "How Trurl's Own Perfection Led to No Good" |
| Meaning and Reference: The Russell-Strawson Debate |
Russell. "On Denoting"
Strawson. "On Referring"
Russell. "Mr Strawson On Referring" |
| Meaning and Reference: (More) Contemporary Classics |
Kripke. "Identity and Necessity"
Putnam. "Meaning and Reference" |
| Externalism and the Mental |
Davidson. "Knowing One's Own Mind"
Some additional readings:
Tyler Burge. "Individualism and the Mental" |
Ontology: The Problem of Universals |
Quine. "On What There Is" |
| The Logical Positivist Program |
Ayer. "The A Priori"
Some additional readings:
Ayer. "The Elimination of Metaphysics”
Ayer. Language, Truth and Logic (squashed version) |
| The Analytic/Synthetic Distinction |
Quine. "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" |
| Sense and Reference |
Frege. "On Sense and Reference" |
| Identity |
Black. "The Identity of Indiscernibles"
Quine. "Identity, Ostension, Hypostasis"
Bennett. "Spatio-Temporal Coincidence and the Grounding Problem" |
| The Mind-Body Problem |
Turing. "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"
Searle. "Minds, Brains and Programs"
Lewis. "Mad Pain and Martian Pain
Dennett. "Where Am I?
Some additional readings:
"Place. " Is Consciousness a Brain Process?"
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| Personal Identity |
Parfit. "Personal Identity"
Olson. "An Argument for Animalism"
Some additional readings:
Quinton. “The Soul”
Perry. "Can the Self Divide?" |
| The Private Language Argument |
Wittgenstein. Philosophical Investigations 244 - 271 |
| Qualia |
Block. "Inverted Earth"
Jackson. "Epiphenomenal Qualia"
Jackson. "What Mary Didn't Know" |
| Time and Time Travel |
Sider. "Time Travel, Coincidences and Counterfactuals." |
