Reading List

Here is a list of papers we have read or want to read in our group. It is not complete, but should give you 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 📌

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 📌

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 📌