PHILOSOPHY

1. Dilbert on the privacy of pain

2. On the inverted spectrum:

   • "The Inverted Spectrum (as an Argument against Functionalism)"

   • "The Inverted Spectrum Problem"
     • This is the photo I showed in lecture

3. Dennett, Daniel C. (1978), "Artificial Intelligence as Philosophy and as Psychology", in Martin Ringle (ed.), Philosophical Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence (New York: Humanities Press and Harvester Press); reprinted in Daniel C. Dennett, Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology (Montgomery, VT: Bradford Books, 1978): 109-126.

   • Discusses the notion of the homunculus, among other things.

4. Putnam, Hilary (1975), "The Meaning of `Meaning'," reprinted in Mind, Language and Reality (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press): 215-271.

5. Mind-Body Theories
   from: Taylor, Richard (1974), Metaphysics, 2nd edition (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall): 19.

6. On functionalistic theories of mind:

   • Fodor, Jerry A. (1981, January), "The Mind-Body Problem", Scientific American 244(1): 114-123.

   • Thagard, Paul (1986), "Parallel Computation and the Mind-Body Problem", Cognitive Science 10: 301-318.

     • An argument for the importance of the implementing medium in functionalistic theories of mind.

7. Rapaport, William J. (1982), "Unsolvable Problems and Philosophical Progress", 1982 Prize Essay, American Philosophical Quarterly 19: 289-298.

   Abstract: Philosophy has been characterized (e.g., by Benson Mates) as a field whose problems are unsolvable. This has often been taken to mean that there can be no progress in philosophy as there is in mathematics or science. The nature of problems and solutions is considered, and it is argued that solutions are always parts of theories, hence that acceptance of a solution requires commitment to a theory (as suggested by William Perry's scheme of cognitive development). Progress can be had in philosophy in the same way as in mathematics and science by knowing what commitments are needed for solutions. Similar views of Rescher and Castañeda are discussed.