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.
π Indicates that the paper has been discussed at a previous session.
Ethics
Consequentialism - Peter Singer
Moral Plularism - Susan Wolf π
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 π
Animal Rights (Excerpt from 'Anarchy, State and Utopia') - Robert Nozick π
Epistemology
Naturalized Epistemology - W. V. Quine
Free Will
For The Law, Neuroscience Changes Nothing and Everything - Joshua Greene and Jonathan Cohen π
Actions, Reasons and Causes - Donald Davidson
Consciousness
What Is It Like to Be a Bat? - Thomas Nagel π
Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness - David Chalmers
Consciousness and its Place in Nature - David Chalmers π
Ontology
On What There Is - W. V. Quine π
Computation/Intelligence
Computing Machinery and Intelligence - Alan Turing
Minds, Brains and Programs - John Searle π
A Computer Scientists' View of Life, the Universe, and Everything - JΓΌrgen Schmidhuber
Are You Living In a Computer Simulation? - Nick Bostrom
Is it Enough to Get the Behaviour Right? - Hector Levesque π
Quantum Theory, the Church-Turing Principle and the Universal Quantum Computer - David Deutsch
Science
Why Is There Something, Rather Than Nothing? - Sean Carroll π
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences - Eugene Wigner π