Philosophy of Mind, University of Bergen

PhD Reading Lists in Philosophy. Source

Consciousness and Physicalism

  • Chalmers, D (2003), “Consciousness and its Place in Nature” in Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Mind, Stich, S & Warfield, T (eds.) Blackwell.
  • Crane, T, (2003), “The Intentional Structure of Consciousness” in Consciousness: New Philosophical Perspectives, Smith, Q & Jokic, A (eds.), Oxford University Press
  • Jackson, F. (1982), Epiphenomenal Qualia in Philosophy of Mind: Contemporary and Classical Readings, Chalmers, D (ed.), Oxford University Press.
  • Levin, J (2008), “Taking Type-B Materialism Seriously” in Mind and Language 23
  • Michael, T (1995), Ten Problems of Consciousness (Chapters 1-5), MIT Press.
  • Stoljar, D (2001), Two Concepts of the Physical” in Philosophy of Mind: Contemporary and Classical Readings, Chalmers, D (ed.), Oxford University Press.
  • Carruthers, P (2009), Higher Order Representational Theories of Consciousness, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (net)
  • Wittgenstein, L. Private Language and Experience, 141-169 (in The Wittgenstein Reader)
  • Wittgenstein, L. Aspects and Images, 173-187 (in The Wittgenstein Reader)
  • (Suggested Textbooks: Stoljar, D (2010), Physicalims (Routledge) and Seager, W (1999), Theories of Consciousness: An Introduction and Assessment (Routledge))

Theories of the mind: functionalism and representationalism

  • Putnam, H (2002), “The Nature of Mental States” in Philosophy of Mind: Contemporary and Classical Readings, Chalmers, D (ed.), Oxford University Press.
  • Armstrong, D (2002), “The Causal Theory of the Mind” in Philosophy of Mind: Contemporary and Classical Readings, Chalmers, D (ed.), Oxford University Press.
  • Fodor, J (1987), “Why There Still has to be a Language of Thought” in Psychosemantics, Fodor, J (ed.), MIT Press
  • Fodor, J & Pylyshin, Z (1988) ; “Connectionism and Cognitive Architecture” in Cognition, 28.