Some lecture outlines and other materials for PHL471, Philosophy of Mind

Craig DeLancey

Decision tree for reductive ontology (pdf file)

A Draft Summary of Ontological Views Discussed

Aristotle's Lectures on Psyche

Descartes Meditations I and II

Descartes Meditations III and IV

Descartes Meditations V and VI

Behaviorisms

Smart and Identity Theories

Anomalous Monism and Non-Reductive Physicalism

Churchland's Eliminativism

Representation, Naive Causal Theory, and Normativity

Some approaches to Normativity [incomplete]

Some thoughts on Millikan's "Biosemantics"

Some thoughts on Millikan's Varieties of Meaning

Emotion Background, Nash, DeLancey c1&2

Davidson, Interpretationism as a form of Strong Cognitivism, and Post-Functional Actions

Locke on Personal Identity

Quinton on the Soul and Personal Identity

Butler on Substance and Personal Identity

Dennett on the Self

Parfit on Personal Identity