Philosophy Seminar:
The Mind-Body Problem
Fall 1995
Professor: JeeLoo Liu
Department of Philosophy
State University of New York at Geneseo
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The following handouts are for student use only. No quotation is permitted. (Feedback Welcomed)
Introduction: The Mind-Body Problem
Jerry Fodor: The Mind-Body Problem
Shoemaker: The Mind-Body Problem
Paul Churchland & Patricia Churchland: Intertheoretic Reduction
Fred Dretske: Mind and Brain
Joseph Owens: Psychological Externalism
Stephen Stich: What is a Theory of Mental Representation?
Colin McGinn: Can We Solve the Mind-Body Problem?
Jaegwon Kim: The Myth of Nonreductive Materialism
LePore & Loewer: Mind Matters
John Searle: What's Wrong with the Philosophy of Mind?
Donald Davidson: Thinking Causes
Jaegwon Kim: Can Supervenience and 'Non-Strict Laws' Save Anomalous Monism?
McLaughlin: On Davidson's Response to the Charge of Epiphenomenalism
Ernest Sosa: Davidson's Thinking Causes
Robert Audi: Mental Causation
Fred Dretske: Mental Events as Structuring Causes of Behavior
Tyler Burge: Mind-Body Causation and Explanatory Practice
Jennifer Hornsby: Agency and Causal Explanation