Reading List
📌Indicates paper has been discussed at a previous session.
Ethics
Consequentialism - Peter Singer
Moral Plularism - Susan Wolf 📌
Utilitarianism - Jeremy Bentham
The Categorical Imperative - Immanuel Kant
The Emotional Dog and its Rational Tail - Jonathan Haidt
Greater Happiness for a Greater Number Is that Possible and Desirable? - Ruut Veenhoven 📌
Animal Rights (Excerpt from 'Anarchy, State and Utopia') - Robert Nozick 📌
Epistemology
Naturalized Epistemology - W. V. Quine
Free Will
For The Law, Neuroscience Changes Nothing and Everything - Joshua Greene and Jonathan Cohen 📌
Actions, Reasons and Causes - Donald Davidson
Consciousness
What Is It Like to Be a Bat? - Thomas Nagel 📌
Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness - David Chalmers
Consciousness and its Place in Nature - David Chalmers 📌
Language
On What There Is - W. V. Quine
Computation/Intelligence
Computing Machinery and Intelligence - Alan Turing
Minds, Brains and Programs - John Searle 📌
A Computer Scientists' View of Life, the Universe, and Everything - Jürgen Schmidhuber
Are You Living In a Computer Simulation? - Nick Bostrom
Is it Enough to Get the Behaviour Right? - Hector Levesque 📌
Quantum Theory, the Church-Turing Principle and the Universal Quantum Computer - David Deutsch
Science
Why Is There Something, Rather Than Nothing? - Sean Carroll 📌