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