Seminar Materials
Philosophy 383—From
Neurons to Selves
Michael Taber
Spring 2025
These are the books we will use, in the
order in which we will use them.
These are the books in the order we will use them:
1.
Philosophy
of Mind: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments, edited by Torin Alter, Robert J. Howell, and Amy
Kind (Routledge Publishing, 2024) ISBN 978-1032015842
2.
Rocco
Gennaro’s Mind and Brain: A Dialogue on the Mind-Body Problem, 2nd
edition (Hackett Publishing, 2020), ISBN 978-1624668548
3. Douglas R.
Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett’s The
Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul (Basic Books, 1981
& 2001), ISBN 978-0465030910
4. Meghan
Griffith’s Free Will: The Basics, 2nd edition (Routledge
Publishing, 2022), ISBN 978-1138366893
Also, there is a
Google folder in which live such
items as sign-up sheets for Back-up Buddies, tutorials, and some supplementary
readings.
Some readings in
the “Seminar Schedule” are links to New York Times articles, to which—though
you may not realize it—you already have a subscription; our library has worked out a deal with the NYT whereby all SMCM students, faculty, and
staff can activate a subscription at no additional charge. (Beyond your
tuition, that is!)
Send
me mail: mstaber
at smcm dot edu
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