This is
subject to change, with changes announced in class and/or by email.
Assigned readings/listenings should be
read/listened to prior
to the indicated classes.
Tuesday 9:00-10:20 AM |
Tuesday 7:00-9:00 PM | Thursday
9:00-10:20 AM |
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September
3
First classSyllabus |
|
September 5
Read: "Beyond lies
the wub" |
September
10
Read: "Animal
Consciousness: What Matters and Why" |
September
10
TV: Outer Limits: The Human Factor
TV: Star Trek: Spock's Brain |
September
12
Listen: Radiolab: Who Am I?
Read: "Liking What You See: A Documentary" |
September
17
Read: "First Person
Experience of Body Transfer in Virtual Reality" |
September
17
Film: Being John Malkovich |
September
19
Paper discussion
|
September
24
ADVISING DAY
(no class) |
September
24
Film: Memento |
September
26
Listen: Radiolab: Memory and ForgettingDue: Paper #1 (5-8 pages on a topic discussed in class) |
October
1
Read: "Islands of
memory:
Autobiographical remembering in amnestics" |
October
3
Film: The Manchurian Candidate
(1962) |
October
3
Listen: Radiolab: DeceptionListen: IT Conversations: Dan Simons - The Invisible Gorilla |
October
8
Read: "The
persistence of false beliefs" |
October
8
Film:
Eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind |
October
10
Paper
discussion
|
October 15
OCTOBER BREAK
(no class) |
October 15
OCTOBER BREAK
(no class)
|
October 17
Div I, II, III, IV
Due: Paper #2 (5-8 pages on a topic discussed in class) |
October 22
Read: The Futurological CongressListen: All in the Mind: Brave New Mind: Smart drugs and the ethics of neuro-enhancement |
October 22
TV: Star Trek the Next Generation:
The Measure
of a ManTV: The Twilight Zone: The Lonely |
October 24
Read: "Computing
Machinery and
Intelligence" |
October 29
Read: "Minds, Brains,
and Programs" |
October 29
Film: Fast, Cheap, and
Out of Control |
October 31
Read: "Evolution of
Artificial Intelligence"Read: "Seventy-Two Letters" |
November
5
Listen: Radiolab: Emergence |
November
5
TV: Star Trek the Next Generation:
Emergence
|
November 7
Paper discussion |
November
12
Listen: All in the Mind: Michael
Gazzaniga: Split brains and other heady talesListen: All in the Mind: The Master & his Emissary - the divided brain and the reshaping of Western civilisation. |
November
12
TV: The Prisoner: A, B and C |
November
14
Read: "The Role of
Sleep in Memory Consolidation and Brain Plasticity:
Dream or Reality?"Read: "Sleep and Dream Patterns of Political Liberals and Conservatives" Optional: Listen: All in the Mind: Dreams: the stuff memories are made of? (Part 2 of 2) Due: Paper #3 (5-8 pages on a topic discussed in class) |
November 19
Read: "Understand"Listen: Philosophy Bites: David Chalmers on the Singularity |
November 19
Film: Limitless |
November 21
Read: "The Evolution
of Human Science"Listen: IT Conversations: Ray Kurzweil - The Future is Near |
November 26
Read: "Talk of
genetics and vice
versa" Read: "From Squeak
to Syntax: Language's Incremental Evolution"Listen: Radiolab: Musical Language |
November 26
Film: Waking Life |
November 28
THANKSGIVING
(no class) |
December
3
Paper discussionRead: Discussion questions on the Waking Life page of the Philosophical Films website |
December
3
Film: A Scanner Darkly
|
December 5
Read: "Story of Your Life"
|
December
10
DiscussionDue: Final Paper (10-12 pages, may be a revision/expansion of an earlier paper) and Portfolio |
December
10
? |
December
12
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