Lecture Notes
UNIT ONE: METAPHYSICS & EPISTEMOLOGY
Week 1
Arguments
What is Technology?
Week 2
Descartes' Method of Doubt
External World Skepticism
Week 3
Moore's Refutation of Skepticism
The Simulation Argument
Chalmers' Refutation of Skepticism
Week 4
Material Identity (The Ship of Theseus)
Personal Identity
Uploading (part 1)
Week 5
Cartesian (Substance) Dualism
Functionalism and A.I.
Against Physicalism
Week 6
Uploading (part 2)
Extended Minds
UNIT TWO: ETHICS
Week 7
Hedonism & The Experience Machine
Week 8
A World Without Work
A.I.-Generated Art
Life Extension
Week 9
The Goodness of Immortality
Human Cloning
Week 10
Video Games
Sex Robots
Week 11
Autonomous Weapons
Week 12
Against Animal Rights (Cohen)
Against Factory-Farming (Norcross)
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