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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Philosophy
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Oron Shagrir
Coordinator Office Hours:
0
Teaching Staff:
Prof Oron Shagrir
Course/Module description:
We will discuss the claim of mental causation, the claim that mental events -- beliefs, desires and so on -- are causes of our actions.
Course/Module aims:
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
To be familiar with a complex philosophical problem.
To analyze philosophical arguments and papers
To present a paper in class
To prepare a final essay
To discuss philosophy with classmates
Attendance requirements(%):
80%
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Lecture and discussion
Course/Module Content:
The problem of mental causation
Davidsonian approach
Counterfactual approach
Multiple realization approach
High-order properties approach
Interventionist approach
Required Reading:
1. Davidson, Donald 1963: “Actions, Reasons and Causes”, Journal of Philosophy 60: 685-700. Reprinted in Davidson's Essays on Actions and Events.
2. Davidson, 1970: “Mental Events, in L. Foster and J.W. Swanson (eds.), Experience and Theory. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. Reprinted in Davidson's Essays on Actions and Events, Oxford: Oxford University Press (1980).
3. LePore, E. and B. Loewer 1987: “Mind Matters”. Journal of Philosophy 84: 630-642.
4. Davidson, Donald 1993: “Thinking Causes”, in J. Heil and A. Mele (eds.), Mental Causation, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
5. Kim, Jaegwon 1993: “Can Supervenience and ‘Non-Strict Laws’ Save Anomalous Monism?”, in J. Heil and A. Mele (eds.), Mental Causation, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
6. Fodor, 1989, “Making Mind Matter More”, Philosophical Topics, 17: 59–79. Reprinted in J. A. Fodor, 1990, A Theory of Content and Other Essays, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 137–59.
7. Hornsby, Jennifer, "Agency and Causal Explanation". In Heil, John (ed.); Mele, Alfred R. (Ed), (1993). Mental Causation, in J. Heil and A. Mele (eds.), Mental Causation, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
8. Kim, Jaegwon 1998: Mind in a Physical World, chapter 2.
9. Yablo, S., 1992, “Mental Causation”, Philosophical Review, 101: 245–80.
10. Pereboom, Derk 2002: “Robust Nonreductive Materialism”, Journal of Philosophy 99: 499-531.
11. Bennett, K., 2003, “Why the Exclusion Problem Seems Intractable, and How, Just Maybe, to Tract It”, Noûs, 37: 471–97.
12. Woodward, J., 2008, “Mental Causation and Neural Mechanisms”, in Hohwy and Kallestrup 2008, pp. 218–62.
Additional Reading Material:
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 100 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
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