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submitted to the Undergraduate Office, G.001, in the Arthur Lewis building and must be submitted by 2pm on the hand in day. The standard essay submission form will be provided by the UG office. See the Philosophy Study Guide for information about the granting of extensions and penalties for unexcused late submission and for overlong essays. Penalties for late submission of essays Essays submitted after 2.00pm carry the following dayʼs date. The penalties for late submission of essays is -10 marks for up to 24 hours late and -10 marks for each subsequent day (including weekends) for up to 10 days. Students who have a valid reason (i.e. mitigating circumstances with the necessary documentation) for not being able to submit their assessed essay on time should collect a mitigating circumstances form from the SoSS Undergraduate Office (Lewis, G.001), which should be completed and returned to G.001. Return of assessed essays A report on your assessed essay will be available on the Student System no later than 15 working days after the essay deadline date (provided the essay is submitted on time). Please note that all essay marks are provisional until confirmed by the external examiner and the final examinations boards in June. Students are welcome to discuss their essay with their tutor or the course convenor during their office hour. Feedback The School of Social Sciences (SoSS) is committed to providing timely and appropriate feedback to students on their academic progress and achievement, thereby enabling students to reflect on their progress and plan their academic and skills development effectively. Students are reminded that feedback is necessarily responsive: only when a student has done a certain amount of work and approaches us with it at the appropriate fora is it possible for us to feed back on the student's work. The main forms of feedback on this course are written feedback responses to assessed essays and exam answers. We also draw your attention to the variety of generic forms of feedback available to you on this as on all SoSS courses. These include: meeting the lecturer/tutor during their office hours; e- mailing questions to the lecturer/tutor; asking questions from the lecturer (before and after lecture); presenting a question on the discussion board on Blackboard; and obtaining feedback from your peers during tutorials. 6 Assessed Essay Titles (1) What is Brentano’s thesis? Is it true? Does it matter whether or not it is true? (2) Are intentionalist accounts of phenomenal character plausible? 36
(3) What is the best formulation of physicalism? Why does the formulation of physicalism matter? (4) Explain and evaluate eliminativism as an account of the propositional attitudes. (5) What is externalism about mental content? Explain and evaluate one objection to externalist accounts of mental content. 5. COURSE OUTLINE This course function as an introduction to the philosophy of mind. What is it to have a mind? Can mental states be explained in the way that other natural phenomena can be? If so, how? Are mental states causally relevant? How well do we know our minds? We will examine these and many other questions relating to the nature of mindedness. 6. READING LIST A web-based version of this reading list, with links to catalogue entries, is available on The University of Manchester Library web site. (Click on 'Reading Lists' on the left of the main catalogue page.) Detailed bibliographies for each weekʼs philosophical topic will be given on the tutorial worksheets (available on Blackboard). But, in addition, the following books also have helpful material in them. All reading lists are for guidance only! The texts listed should help you increase your understanding of the topics covered in the course, and help you prepare for the assessed essay and exam. But you are also encouraged to use your own initiative and find relevant articles and books by chasing up interesting footnotes, browsing real and virtual libraries, following your hunches, and so on. useful textbooks Braddon-Mitchell, D. & Jackson, F. 1996. The Philosophy of Mind and Cognition. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers. Crane, T. 2003. The Mechanical Mind (2nd ed.) London: Routledge. Crane, T. 2001. Elements of Mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press Heil, J. 2004. Philosophy of Mind: A Contemporary Introduction (2nd ed). London: Routledge. McGinn, C. 1996. The Character of Mind (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. useful anthologies, companions, and handbooks Block, N., Flanagan, O. & Güzeldere, G. 1997. The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical Debates. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Chalmers, D. 2002. Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings Oxford: OUP. Heil, J. 2003. Philosophy of Mind: A Guide and Anthology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Lycan W. & Prinz, J. (ed.) 2008. Mind and Cognition: A Reader (3rd ed.) Blackwell. McLaughlin, B. et al. (eds.) 2009. The Oxford Handbook to Philosophy of Mind. Oxford: OUP. O’Connor, T. & Robb, D. 2003. Philosophy of Mind: Contemporary Readings. London: Routledge. Stich, S. & Warfield, T. 2003. The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Mind. Oxford: Blackwell. 7 Fundamentals: Intentionality, Consciousness, Physicalism Crane, T. 2001. Elements of Mind. Oxford: OUP (ch. 1). Crane, T. 1998. Intentionality as the mark of the mental. In T. Crane (ed.), Contemporary Issues in the Philosophy of Mind. Cambridge University Press. Searle, J. 1983. Intentionality. Cambridge: CUP (ch. 1). Stoljar, D. 2010. Physicalism. Routledge. Tye, M. 1996. Ten Problems of Consciousness. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Eliminativism 37
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