Jan. 10 | Introductory Meeting, No Reading. | No seminar scheduled. |
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Jan. 17 | Radical Empiricism Ernst Mach (1900) ‘Introductory Remarks: Antimetaphysical’ from The Analysis of Sensations. William James (1904) ‘Does Consciousness Exist’ The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods. |
Valentin Wey (Mach) Marybel Menzies (James) |
Jan. 24 | Revisioning Matter Bertrand Russell (1927) Chs. 37 and 38 of The Analysis of Matter. Arthur Eddington (1929) Introduction and Ch. 12 of The Nature of the Physical World. |
Andrew Doppenberg (Russell) Nate Oppel (Eddington) |
Jan. 31 | Scientific Irrealism Larry Laudan (1981) ‘A Confutation of Convergent Realism’ Philosophy of Science. Bas van Fraassen (1981) Ch. 2 of The Scientific Image. |
Andrew Doppenberg / Zachery Tsang (Laudan) Valentin Wey (van Fraassen) |
Feb. 7 ** | No class this week. |
No seminar scheduled. |
Feb. 14 | Limiting Science Arthur Fine (1986) ‘The Natural Ontological Attitude’, Ch. 7 of The Shaky Game. Nancy Cartwright (1999) Introduction and Ch. 1 of The Dappled World: A Study of the Boundaries of Science. |
Nancy Wu (Fine) Cassandra Williams (Cartwright) |
Feb. 21 | Reading Week | No seminar scheduled. |
Feb. 28 | Structuralism James Ladyman (1998) ‘What is Structural Realism?’ Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science. Bas van Fraassen (2007) ‘Stucturalism(s) About Science: Some Common Problems’ Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume. |
Cameron Yetman (Ladyman) Patrick Fraser (van Fraassen) |
Mar. 7 | Classical Qualia Thomas Nagel (1974) ‘What is it Like to be a Bat?’ The Philosophical Review. Frank Jackson (1982) ‘Epiphenomenal Qualia’ The Philosophical Quarterly. Daniel Dennett (1988) ‘Quining Qualia’ in A. Marcel & E. Bisiach (eds.) Consciousness in Contemporary Science. |
Ethan Xu (Nagel) Marybel Menzies (Jackson) Ariel Lafayette (Dennett) |
Mar. 14 | Transparency G. E. Moore (1903) ‘The Refutation of Idealism’ Mind. Gilbert Harman (1990) ‘The Intrinsic Quality of Experience’ Philosophical Perspectives. |
Patrick Fraser (Moore) Nancy Wu (Harman) |
Mar. 21 | Perception Adam Pautz (2021) Introduction to Perception. Adam Pautz (2017) ‘Experiences Are Representations’ in B. Nanay (ed.) Current Controversies in Philosophy of Perception. |
Simon Dietz (Pautz Intro) Cassandra Williams / Sanghun Han (Pautz Experiences) |
Mar. 28 | Colour Paul Boghossian and David Velleman (1989) ‘Colour as a Secondary Quality’ Mind. Brian Cutter (2022) ‘The Mind-Body Problem and the Color-Body Problem’ Philosophical Studies. |
Simon Dietz and Zachary Tsang (Boghossian and Velleman) Ariel Lafayette / Sanghun Han (Cutter) |
Apr. 4 | Presence Mark Johnston (2007) ‘Objective Mind and the Objectivity of Our Minds’ Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. William Seager (nd) ‘From Panpsychism to Neutral Monism, and Back Again(?)’ |
Ethan Xu (Johnston) Nate Oppel (Seager) |
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