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/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

Enlightenment

• What is Enlightenment - Immanuel Kant

Existentialism

• Existentialism Is a Humanism - Jean-Paul Sartre

Free Will

• For The Law, Neuroscience Changes Nothing and Everything - Joshua Greene and Jonathan Cohen

• What is Enlightenment - Immanuel Kant

Metaphysics

• The Absurd - Thomas Nagel

Ontology

• On What There Is - W. V. Quine

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

Foundations Track

• Introduction to Philosophy - coursera course

• Political Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction - David Miller

• Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy - Simon Blackburn