Listen: Chalmers - The Singularity (interview)
Week 2Descartes - Meditations on First Philosophy (I and II)
Nagel - How Do We Know Anything?
Moore - Proof of an External World
Week 3Bostrom - You Are Living in the Matrix
Chalmers - The Reality Question
Chalmers - The Matrix as Metaphysics
Week 4Perry - Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality
Chalmers - Uploading and Personal Identity (read part 1)
Descartes - Meditations on First Philosophy (Review Meditation II)
Week 5Nagel - What Is It Like To Be A Bat?
Chalmers - Uploading and Consciousness
Chalmers - Uploading and Personal Identity (read part 2)
Week 6Clark & Chalmers - The Extended Mind
Week 7Le Guin - The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
Nozick - The Experience Machine
Danaher - Will Life Be Worth Living in a World Without Work?
Week 8Danaher - Will Life Be Worth Living in a World Without Work?
Sandberg - AI Generated Art and the Future of Artists Art
Anscomb - A.I. & Art-Making (optional)
Bostrom - The Dragon Tyrant & Life-Extension
Williams - The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality
Fischer - Why Immortality Is Not So Bad
Week 9Cohen - The Case for the Use of Animals
Norcross - Puppies, Pigs, and People
Hopkins, Dacey, Milburn - Cultured Meat
Week 10Kass - Preventing a Brave New World
Flanigan - Defense of Compulsory Vaccination
Week 11Danaher - The Sex Robot Debate
Roff & Sparrow - Autonomous Weapons and Moral Responsibility
Week 13Gardiner - Arming the Future With Geoengineering
Parfit, Bostrom, Chalmers - On the Singularity
Week 14