Advanced Topics in Philosophy of Mind (Spring 2008)
January
24: Introduction to Mindreading
Goldman, Simulating Minds
(SM), chap. 1
January 31:
Conceptualizing Simulation Theory (ST), and
the Rationality Theory
Goldman, SM, chaps. 2-3
Dennett, “True believers” [Hard copy]
Gergeley & Csibra, “Teleological reasoning in infancy”
February 7: The Theory Theory (TT)
Goldman, SM, chaps. 4-5
Gopnik & Wellman, “Why the child’s theory of mind really is a theory” [Hard copy]
Carruthers, The Architecture of the Mind, pp. 3-12, 167-176 [Hard copy]
Saxe & Powell, “It’s the thought that counts”
February 14: Simulation in Low-level Mindreading
Goldman, SM, chap. 6
Gallese & Goldman, “Mirror neurons and the simulation theory of mind-reading”
Wicker et al., “Both of us disgusted in my insula”
February 21: Simulation in High-level Mindreading (etc.)
Goldman, SM, chaps. 7-8
Samson et al., “Seeing it my way: … inhibiting self-perspective”
Gordon, “Simulation without introspection or inference from me to you” [Hard copy]
February 28: First-person
mindreading
Goldman, SM, chap. 9
Shoemaker, “Self-knowledge and ‘inner sense’,” in The First-Person Perspective and Other Essays, pp. 201-245 [Hard copy]
Carruthers, “Simulation and the first-person”
March 6:
Concepts
of Mental States
Goldman, SM, chap. 10
Loar, “Phenomenal states (2nd version)” [Hard copy]
Fodor, “Language, thought and compositionality” [Hard copy]
March 13: Mirror-processes: Recent overviews and developments
Gallese et al., “A unifying view of the basis of social cognition”
Keysers & Gazzola, “Towards a unifying neural theory of social cognition”
Iacoboni et al., “Grasping the intentions of others with one’s own mirror neuron system”
March 27: Critiques of Common Mirror-Process Claims
Csibra, “Action mirroring and action understanding: an alternative account”
Jacob, “What do mirror neurons contribute to human social cognition?”
Goldman, “Jacob on mirroring, simulating and mindreading”
April 3: New Research and Reflections on Mirror Processes
Singer et al., “Empathic neural responses are modulated …”
Blakemore et al., “Somatosensory activations … and vision-touch synaesthesia”
de Vignemont & Haggard, “Action Observation and Execution: What Is Shared?”
April 17: Embodied Cognition I
Niedenthal, "Embodying emotion"
Oberman et al., "Face to face: Blocking facial mimicry ..."
Aziz-Zadeh et al., "Congruent embodied representations ..."
April 24: Embodied Cognition II
Gallese & Lakoff, "The brain's concepts"Glenberg & Kaschak, "Grounding language in action"
Clark, "Pressing the flesh" [Hard copy]
May 1: Embodied Cognition III
Shapiro, The Mind Incarnate, preface + pp. 57-65 + pp. 165-225 [Hard copy]