Philosophy 535. Philosophy of Mind Fall Semester 2008-2009 Gilbert Harman Fridays 1:00-3:50PM

REMAINING SESSION

December 12. Consciousness. Harman, “The Intrinsic Quality of Experience,” LP, chapter 44. Block, “Comparing the Major Theories of Consciouness,” http://tinyurl.com/6n3hgd Other readings in LP, part VII.

EARLIER SESSIONS

Basic reading: The following books have been ordered for this seminar at Labyrinth Books on Nassau Street. One copy of each is also available in the Marx Hall Library. LP William G. Lycan and Jesse J. Prinz, Mind and Cognition: An Anthology, Third Edition (Blackwell, 2008). AA Anthony Appiah, Experiments in Ethics (Harvard UP, 2008). SA Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Moral Psychology, Three Volumes (MIT Press, 2008). KN Joshua Knobe and Shaun Nichols, Experimental Philosophy (Oxford UP, 2008).

Tentative Schedule. Where more than one item of reading is listed below, the first one is the main reading and the rest are supplementary. Participants in the seminar are encouraged to present material and to suggest alternative topics and readings.

September 12. Character Traits and Social Psychology. Appiah, “Introduction: The Waterless Moat” and “The Case against Character,” chapters 1-2 of AA. Harman, “Moral Philosophy Meets Social Psychology: Virtue Ethics and the Fundamental Attri- bution Error,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 99 (1999), pp. 315-331 (available through JSTOR from the Princeton University campus network or from http://tinyurl.com/69spcu.

September 19. Social Intuitionism. Haidt and Bjorkland, “Social Intuitionists Answer Six Questions about Moral Psychology,” and commentary, SA, vol. 2, section 4.

September 26. Science and Metaethics. Joyce, “What Neuroscience Can (and Cannot) Contribute to Metaethics,” and commentary, SA vol. 3, section 8. Nichols, “Sentimentalism Naturalized,” and commentary, SA, vol. 2, section 5.

October 3. Psychopathology and Autism. McGeer, “Varieties of Moral Agency: Lessons from Autism (and Psychopathy),” and commentary, SA, vol. 3, section 5. “Internalism and the Evidence from Psychopaths and ‘Acquired Sociopaths’,” and commentary, SA, vol. 3, section 4. Kiehl, “Without Morals: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Criminal Psychopaths,” and commentary, SA, vol. 3, section 3.

October 10. Linguistic Analogy. Hauser et al., “Reviving Rawls’s Linguistic Analogy: Operative Principles and the Causal Structure of Moral Actions,” and commentary, SA, vol. 2, section 3. Roedder and Harman, “Moral Theory: the Linguistic Analogy” http://tinyurl.com/6k4vsl. Greene, “The Secret Joke of Kant’s Soul,” and commentary, SA, vol. 3, section 2.

October 17. Innateness and the Linguistic Analogy. Sripada, “Nativism and Moral Psychology: Three Models of the Innate Structure that Shapes the Contents of Moral Norms,” and commentary, SA, vol. 1, section 6. Prinz, “Is Morality Innate?” and commentary, SA, vol. 1, section 7.

October 24. No meeting today. (Harman out of town.)

November 7. Emotions, guilt.. Part X of LP including introduction (essays by Solomon, Prinz, and Griffiths). Harman, “Guilt-Free Morality,” http://tinyurl.com/55b24j.

November 14. Princeton Moral Psychology Conference. 1pm to 6pm in Friend 006. 1:00 PM “The ‘Deep Self’ Model and folk judgments about the intentionality of action.” Chandra Sripada, Medical School and Philosophy, University of Michigan. 2:15 PM “Epistemology and Implicit Racial Bias.” Erica Roedder, Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel HIll. 3:30 PM “Emotions, Norms, and the Moralization of Fairness.” Shaun Nichols, Philosophy, Uni- versity of Arizona. 4:45 PM “Empathy and Morality.” Adina Roskies, Philosophy, Dartmouth University. Reception

November 21. Mind-body problems. Lycan “The Continuity of Levels of Nature,” LP chapter 7. Other readings in LP, parts I-VI.

December 5. Philosophical Experiments, with special guest: Joshua Knobe.. Knobe, “The Concept of Intentional Action: A Case Study in the Uses of Folk Psychology,” KN, chapter 7. Appiah, “The Case Against Intuition,” AA, chapter 3. Cullen, “Survey Driven Romanticism,” http://tinyurl.com/54lr8o. Weinberg et al., “Semantics: Cross-Cultural Style,” KN, chapter 3. Devitt, “Experimental Semantics,” http://tinyurl.com/6ozpkw Other discussion at http://experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com/

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