List of available seminar papers

 

 

Dates: 16.5., 26.5., 30.5., 27.6., 4.7., 11.7; Block seminar: July 18^th

Locations: Di 12-14 46/E04

 

Weeks 1 - 3:

 

·       Dennett, D.C. (1995). COG: Steps towards consciousness in robots. In Metzinger 1995b. German translation in Metzinger 1995a.

·       Dennett, D.C. (1971). Intentional Systems. Journal of Philosophy, 8, 87-106. Reprinted in Dennett 1978, German translation in Bieri 1993.

·       Dennett, D.C. (1988). Quining qualia. In Marcel & Bisiach 1988. Reprinted in Block et al. 1997.

Weeks 4 - 6:

 

·       Dennett, D.C. (1991). Consciousness Explained. Boston/Toronto/London: Little, Brown and Company. Deutsch: Descartes, Potemkin und die Büchse der Pandora - Eine neue Philosophie des menschlichen Bewußtseins. Hoffman und Campe. (See also: Dennett, D.C. (1993). Précis of Consciousness Explained. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 53, 889-92.)

·       Dennett, D.C. (1987b). The Intentional Stance. Cambridge, MA und London: MIT Press. (In particular: Dennett, D.C. (1981). True believers: The intentional strategy and why it works. See also: Stich, S. P. & Warfield, T. A. (1994)[eds]. Mental Representation. A Reader. Oxford: Blackwell. See also: Lycan, W.(1990)[ed]. Mind and Cognition: A Reader. Oxford. [Part III])

·       Dennett, D.C. (1995). Darwin's Dangerous Idea. New York: Simon and Schuster.

 

 

Block seminar:

 

To be arranged. Proposals:

 

·       Dennett, D. & Hofstadter, H. (1981). Einsicht ins Ich - Fantasien und Reflexionen über Selbst und Seele. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta.

·       Dennett, D.C. & Humphrey, N. (1989). Speaking for Ourselves: An Assessment of Multiple Personality Disorder. Raritan: A Quarterly Review, Vol. IX, No. 1, 68-98.

·       Dennett, D.C. & Kinsbourne, M. (1991). Time and the observer: The where and when of consciousness in the brain. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 15, 183-247. Reprinted in Block et al. 1997.

·       Dennett, D.C. (1969). Content and Consciousness. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

·       Dennett, D.C. (1976a). Conditions of Personhood. In Rorty, A. (ed) 1976; reprinted in Dennett 1978, deutsche Übersetzung in Bieri 1981.

·       Dennett, D.C. (1978). Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

·       Dennett, D.C. (1978). Why you can't make a computer that feels pain. Synthese, 38, 415-56. Reprinted in Dennett 1978.

·       Dennett, D.C. (1979). On the absence of phenomenology. In D. Gustafson & B. Tapscott (eds), Body, mind and method: Essays in Honor of Virgil Aldrich. Dordrecht: D. Reidel.

·       Dennett, D.C. (1995). Get real. Philosophical Topics, 22, 505-60.

·       Dennett, D.C. (1996). Kinds of Minds. Towards an Understanding of Consciousness. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

 

References:

 

Bieri, P. (1993)[Hrsg.]. Analytische Philosophie des Geistes. Königstein: Hain 1981; 2. Auflage 1993; 3. Auflage 1997, Weinheim: Beltz Athenäum.

Block, N., Flanagan, O. & Güzeldere, G. (1997)[eds]. The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical Debates. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Dahlbom, B. (1993)[ed]. Dennett and his Critics. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Marcel, A. & Bisiach, E. (1988)[eds]. Consciousness in Contemporary Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Metzinger, T. (1995a)[ed]. Bewußtsein - Beiträge aus der Gegenwartsphilosophie. Paderborn: mentis.

Metzinger, T. (1995b)[ed]. Conscious Experience. Thorverton, UK: Imprint Academic & Paderborn: mentis.

 

Web resources:

 

http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/~ddennett.htm

http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/pubpage.htm

http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/lexicon/

(Consciousness bibliography: section 3.5)

 

 

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Sprechstunde: Nach Vereinbarung (thomas.metzinger@uni-essen.de)