Reading List

Here is an incomplete list of papers we have read or want to read in our group. It should give an idea of what kind of papers we read.

📌 Indicates that the 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 📌

• 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 📌