Reading Questionnaire #1 - Due 1/22/08
Reading Questionnaire #2 - Due 1/29/08
Reading Questionnaire #3 - Due 2/5/08
Reading Questionnaire #4 - Due 2/12/08 (Corrected version)
Reading Questionnaire #5 - Due 2/26/08
Reading Questionnaire #6 - Due 3/11/08
Reading Questionnaire #7 - Due 3/25/08
Reading Questionnaire #8 - Due 4/1/08
Reading Questionnaire #9 - Due 4/8/08
Reading Questionnaire #10 - Due 4/15/08
Reading Questionnaire #11 - Due 4/22/08
Lecture Notes
Descartes: The Passions of the Soul
Carnap: Psychology in Physical Language
Smart: Sensations and Brain Processes
Putnam: Minds, Brains, and Machines
Block: The Computer Model of Mind
Hofstadter: Prelude, Ant Fugue
Block: Troubles with Functionalism
Churchland: Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes
Turing: Computing Machinery and Intelligence
Searle: Minds, Brains, and Programs
Nagel: What is it Like to be a Bat?
McGinn: Can We Solve the Mind-Body Problem?
PowerPoint Slides
Paper #1 - DUE 2/19/08 in class
Paper #2 - DUE 4/10/08 in class
Midterm Guidelines for midterm: 2/28/08
FINAL EXAM GUIDELINES (FINAL 5/5/08): CORRECTED VERSION
Block: "The Computer Model of the Mind"
Dreyfus: From Micro-Worlds to Knowledge Representation I
Dreyfus: From Micro-Worlds to Knowledge Representation II
Some transcripts of AI "personalities": ELIZA, PERRY, RACTER