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. You can find our current schedule here.
Computation and Intelligence
Are You Living In a Computer Simulation? - Nick Bostrom
Minds, Brains and Programs - John Searle
Is it Enough to Get the Behaviour Right? - Hector Levesque
Consciousness
Consciousness and its Place in Nature - David Chalmers
Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons - Derek Parfit
What Is It Like to Be a Bat? - Thomas Nagel
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
How it is not “Just Like Diabetes”: Mental Disorders and the Moral Psychologist - Nomy Arpaly
Killing, Letting Die, and the Trolley Problem - Judith Jarvis Thomson
Moral Plularism - Susan Wolf
Overpopulation and the Quality of Life- Derek Parfit
Why It Is Better Never to Come into Existence - David Benatar
Epistemology
Pragmatism's Conception of Truth - William James
Vagueness - Bertrand Russell
Existentialism
Existentialism Is a Humanism - Jean-Paul Sartre
Free Will
Are We Free to Break the Laws? - David Lewis
For The Law, Neuroscience Changes Nothing and Everything - Joshua Greene and Jonathan Cohen
Freedom and Resentment - Peter Strawson
Metaphysics
The Absurd - Thomas Nagel
On Sense and Reference - Gottlob Frege
On What There Is - W. V. Quine
What Mary Didn't Know - Frank Jackson
What RoboMary Knows - Daniel Dennett
Political Philosophy
Apology of Socrates - Plato
Justice as Fairness - John Rawls
On the Limits to the Authority of Society over the Individual - John Stuart Mill
Religion
Euthyphro - Plato
Evil and Omnipotence - John Leslie Mackie
Why I Am Not a Christian - Bertrand Russell
Zhuangzi & Taoism - Philosophy in Motion (videos)
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
Modernity - An Incomplete Project - Jürgen Habermas
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