Lecture Notes

Note: Some illustrations have been removed from lecture notes, which may cause discontinuity.


LEC # TOPICS
1 Introduction and Warmup: Searle Against AI (PDF 1) (PDF 2)
2 Introduction and Warmup: Searle Against AI (cont.) (PDF)

Dualism (PDF)
3 Dualism (cont.) (PDF)

Behaviorism (PDF)
4 Behaviorism (cont.) (PDF)

The Identity Theory
5 The Identity Theory (cont.) (PDF)
6 Functionalism (PDF)
7 Functionalism (cont.) (PDF 1) (PDF 2)

Content: Intentionality and Externalism (PDF)
8 Content: Intentionality and Externalism (cont.) (PDF)

Content: Psychosemantics (PDF)
9 Content: Psychosemantics (cont.) (PDF)

Externalism and Self-knowledge (PDF)
10 Consciousness and Intentionality (PDF)

Consciousness and its Place in Nature (PDF)
11 Consciousness and its Place in Nature (cont.) (PDF)
12 The Knowledge Argument (PDF 1) (PDF 2)
13 The Explanatory Gap and Kripke's Argument Revisited (PDF 1) (PDF 2)
14 Discussion of Can We Solve the Mind-Body Problem?