Past Papers
Here is an incomplete list of papers/books we have read and courses we did in our group. It should give an idea of what kind of material we discuss.
Computation and Intelligence
Minds, Brains and Programs - John Searle
Are You Living In a Computer Simulation? - Nick Bostrom
Is it Enough to Get the Behaviour Right? - Hector Levesque
Consciousness
What Is It Like to Be a Bat? - Thomas Nagel
Consciousness and its Place in Nature - David Chalmers
Where Am I - Daniel Dennett
Ethics
Animal Rights (Excerpt from 'Anarchy, State and Utopia') - Robert Nozick
Famine, Affluence and Morality - Peter Singer
Greater Happiness for a Greater Number: Is that Possible and Desirable? - Ruut Veenhoven
Moral Plularism - Susan Wolf
Overpopulation and the Quality of Life- Derek Parfit
Epistemology
Pragmatism's Conception of Truth - William James
Vagueness - Bertrand Russell
Existentialism
Existentialism Is a Humanism - Jean-Paul Sartre
Free Will
For The Law, Neuroscience Changes Nothing and Everything - Joshua Greene and Jonathan Cohen
Freedom and Resentment - Peter Strawson
Metaphysics
The Absurd - Thomas Nagel
On What There Is - W. V. Quine
Political Philosophy
Apology of Socrates - Plato
Justice as Fairness - John Rawls
Religion
Euthyphro - Plato
Evil and Omnipotence - John Leslie Mackie
Why I Am Not a Christian - Bertrand Russell
Science
The Demise of the Demarcation Problem - Larry Laudan
The Fine-Tuning Argument - Neil Manson
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences - Eugene Wigner
Why Is There Something, Rather Than Nothing? - Sean Carroll
Social Philosophy
The Subject and Power - Michel Foucault
What is Enlightenment - Immanuel Kant
Foundations Track
Bacon to Kant - An Introduction to Modern Philosophy - Garrett Thomson
Introduction to Philosophy - coursera course
Political Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction - David Miller
Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy - Simon Blackburn