Reading List
Here is an incomplete list of papers/books we have read or want to read and courses we did in our group. It should give an idea of what kind of material we discuss.
📌 Indicates that the content 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 📌
Famine, Affluence and Morality - Peter Singer 📌
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 📌
Where Am I - Daniel Dennett 📌
Ontology
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 📌
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences - Eugene Wigner 📌
Religion
Why I Am Not a Christian - Bertrand Russell 📌
What is Enlightenment - Immanuel Kant 📌
The Fine-Tuning Argument - Neil Manson 📌
Metaphysics
The Absurd - Thomas Nagel 📌
Foundations Track
Introduction to Philosophy - coursera course 📌
Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy - Simon Blackburn 📌