Essay Questions
Readings
- Fodor, J. A. (1987): Psychosemantics, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
- Churchland, P. S. and Sejnowski, T. J. (1992): The Computational Brain, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. (parts of ch. 3- 4 that you think relevant)
- van Gelder, T. (1995): What might cognition be if not computation? Journal of Philosophy, 92.345-81.
- Horgan, T. and Tienson, J (1996): Connectionism and the philosophy of psychology, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. (definitely ch. 6, plus read over all the other relevant parts you note)
Readings:
- Fodor, J. A. (2000) The mind doesn't work that way, The MIT Press.
- Fodor, J. A. (1983) The Modularity of Mind, The MIT Press.
- Karmiloff-Smith, A. (1992): Beyond Modularity, The MIT Press.
- Plaut, D. C. (1995): Double Dissociation Without Modularity: Evidence from Connectionist Neuropsychology, 'Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 17, 291-321.
- Shallice, T. (1988): From Neuropsychology to Mental Structure, Cambridge University Press.
- Horgan, T. & Tienson, J. (1996): Connectionism and the Philosophy of Psychology.
Readings:
- Block, N., Flanagan, O, and Yzeldere, G. (1997): The Nature of Consciousness, MIT Press.
- Crick, F. and Koch, C. (1990) Towards a neurobiological theory of consciousness, in Seminars on the Neurosciences, 2, pp. 200-19.
- Nagel, T. (1974): What is it like to be a Bat, in Mortal Questions, Cambridge, (1979).
- Dennet, D. (1991): Consciousness Explained. penguin science.
- Chalmers, D. The Conscious Mind, oxford uni press.
You might want to think of areas such as:
- Language
- Space
- Number
Readings:
- Bateson, P. (1991), 'Are there principles of behavioural development?' in P. Bateson (ed.) The Development and Integration of Behaviour (Cambridge, CUP).
- Godfrey-Smith, P. (2002), 'On the evolution of representational and interpretive capacities', Monist 85, pp. 50-69; at pp. 54-58.
- Godfrey-Smith, P. (2004), 'Genes do not encode information for phenotypic traits', in C.
- Hitchcock (ed.) Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Science (Oxford, Blackwell), pp. 275-289; or (available from Godfrey-Smith's website at anu.edu.au) Godfrey- Smith, P. (2002), 'On genetic information and genetic coding', in P. Gardenfors, J. Wolenski and K. Kajania-Placek (eds.) In the Scope of Logic, Methodology, and the Philosophy of Science (Dordrecht, Kluwer). Vol. II, pp. 387-400.
- Griffiths, P. and R. Gray (1994), 'Developmental Systems and Evolutionary Explanations', Journal of Philosophy 91, pp. 277-304. Sterelny, K. (2003), Thought in a Hostile World (Oxford, Blackwell).