2009

This is a list of seminar session resources. Click on a session date to access the transcript.

Turning 'The Hard Problem' Upside Down & Sideways
Text: Turning 'The Hard Problem' Upside Down & Sideways by Piet Hut and Roger N. Shepard

Sessions: 21.1.2009 - 28.1.2009

Absent Qualia, Fading Qualia, Dancing Qualia
Text: Absent Qualia, Fading Qualia, Dancing Qualia by David J. Chalmers

Sessions: 4.2.2009 - 11.2.2009

Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
Text: Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant

Sessions:
 * Preface: 22.4.2009
 * First Section: 6.5.2009
 * Second Section: 3.6.2009 - 10.6.2009 - 17.6.2009
 * Third Section: 24.6.2009 - 1.7.2009 – 8.7.2009
 * Applicability in the Modern World's Ethic and Politics: 15.7.2009

Review

 * 29.7.2009

Birric on Ethics by Birric Forcella
Text: Birric_on_Ethics_by_Birric_Forcella

Session: 15.10.2009

Free will
Text: B. Libett "Do we have free will?" In Robert H. Kane (ed.), The Oxford Handbook on Free Will, Oxford University Press. 2002.

|"Unconscious Determinants of Free Decisions in the Human Brain" by Haynes et al

Libet: 28.10.2009 - 04.11.2009

Haynes et all: 11.11.2009

Libet & Haynes et al: 18.11.2009 - 25.11.2009

Einstein Podolsky Rosen Paradox
Text: Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen "Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Reality Be Considered Complete?", Physical Reviews 47, 1935.

Further reading, http://www.iep.utm.edu/epr/; http://www.drchinese.com/David/EPR_Bell_Aspect.htm

Session: 16.12.2009 - 30.12.2009

Additional reading and upcoming topics

 * How Can We Construct a Science of Consciousness? by David J. Chalmers


 * A Neurophilosophical Slant on Consciousness Research by Patricia S. Churchland


 * The Neural Mechanisms of Moral Cognition: A Multiple-Aspect Approach to Moral Judgment and Decision-Making by William D. Casebeer and Patricia S. Churchland