Summer 2004 Syllabus and Schedule
Midterm review sheet Final Review Sheet
Resources for Consciounsess Explained:
Ch. 1:
Two Accounts of the brain in a vat scenario: Number 1 and Number 2
Project Lite Visual Perception collection of Illusions
Ch. 3:
Phenomenology. (Standford Encyclopediaof Philosophy article)
Harmonic Overtones (Theory and audio applet)
Wilder Penfield's Brain stimulation work Summary PBS Probe the Brain site
Moliere's The
Imaginary Invalid (the source of the virtus dormitiva
joke).
Here is the
relevant scene XXIII
Ch. 4
Film Clip of a prosopagnosic from Stephen Pinker's course site
Crane
and Piantinada (1983) on Reddish green and yellowish blue
Here
is the red-green filling-in image from Extending the Medium Hypothesis: The
Dennett-Mangan Controversy and Beyond by Karl
F. MacDorman
An abstract of an article on the Pinnochio Effect (Rabin and Gordon 2003)
Zombies invade Philosophy site Useful links to various treatements of the zombie example
Ch. 5:
Phi Phenomenon applet
Selmer Bringsjord, A paper on the Phi phenomenon, critical of Dennett's view
His Phi applet Very nice! You can control many of the parameters.
Yet another Phi Phenomenon Demo
The MagnaPhi Phenomenon Demo and other demo's
Purdue University, Visual Perception Research Lab
Peter Kaiser, The Joy of Visual Perception (optical Illusion page)
Random Dot Stereograms:
Peter Chang and Gareth Richards's SIRDS page. Theory, images, and links.
Magic Eye. The official siteAdventures in 3D. Includes history of the stereoopticon and some 3D glasses images.
Another steroopticon history and 3D page: 3DMAX
Ch. 6:
Metacontrast applet Purdue Coglab
Sperling test Span of Apprehension Demo
Audio visual version of Cutaneous Rabbit
Ted Honderich article on Libet IS THE MIND AHEAD OF THE BRAIN? -- BENJAMIN LIBET'S EVIDENCE EXAMINED
Time and the Observer Dennet and Kinsbourne
Ch. 7:
Turing Machines from Turing.org Java simulations
Split Brain experiments (a summary from Indana U.)
An Introduction to Parallel Distributed Processing
Neural Networks & Connectionist Systems
Dennett's review of Pinker's The Language Instinct
Ch. 10
3D rotating images of Platonic Solids
Comprehensive link page on Mental imagery by Nigel J.T. Thomas
Textbook account of the Shepard and the Kossylyn experiments
A rotation experiment (requires Java installation)
Papers on Consciousness by David Rosenthal
Zombies invade Philosophy site Useful links to various treatements of the zombie example
Ch. 11
Blind sight (including applet) Bryn Mawr Blind Sight and Consciousness by Laura Chivers
Sound induced mental Imagery for the Blind.
Ch. 12
Inverted Spectrum Arguments by David Cole
Jackson's Epiphenomenal Qualia argument
David Chalmers, Facing up to the problem of consciousness
J.J.C. Smart, The identity theory of mind
The Turing test homepage here you can find history, background, and links to bots
John Searle, Is the brain a digital computer?
Material on Dennett and Consciousness Explained
A searcheable Daniell Dennet Bibliogaphy. Nice! Only goes up to 1998. Both works by Dennett and about him. University of California Irvine. Comiled by Eddie Yeghiayan.
Chapter
Summaries of Chapters 1-8 of Consciousness Explained
by John Donovan. (Scroll down to find them)
Reading questions by Brendan Lalor (scroll down)
Notes on the chapters by by Mark Tomaszewicz and Ben Twigg (apparently a pair of students)
Philosophy on the Net, Short Introduction to Dennett
Yet another Phi Phenomenon Demo
The MagnaPhi Phenomenon Demo and other demo's
Purdue University, Visual Perception Research Lab
Peter Kaiser, The Joy of Visual Perception (optical Illusion page)
Selmer Bringsjord, A paper on the Phi phenomenon, critical of Dennett's view
Daniel Dennett, The self as a center of narrative gravity
Daniel Dennett, The origins of selves
Other Important Contemporary Work
David Chalmers, Facing up to the problem of consciousness
David Chalmers, Facing up to the problem of consciousness
Daniel Dennett, Facing backwards on the problem of consciousness (and Chalmers' reply)
John Searle, The problem of consciousness
John Searle, Consciousness and the philosophers (and Chalmers' reply)
Colin McGinn, The problem of philosophy
Godels's Theorem and Penrose
A page of quotes on Godel's Theorem and a link to the original article
Gregory Chaitin, "A Century of Controvery over the Foundations Of Mathematics": A nice basic account of the background of the argument in mathematics.
Kenny Felders summary of Hofstadter's account of Godel's Theorem
The Section of Chalmers' resource page devoted to Godel's Theorem
Freud and Psychoanalysis
Dictionary of the Philosophy of Mind (edited by Chris Eliasmith )
Field Guide to the Philosophy of Mind (collected by Nani and Marraffa
Douglas Hofstadter's homepage
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