Listen: Chalmers - The Singularity (interview)
Dusek - What is Technology? (deleted snow day reading)
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 5 Week 6Nagel - What Is It Like To Be A Bat?
Chalmers - Uploading and Consciousness
Chalmers - Uploading and Personal Identity (read part 2)
Clark & Chalmers - The Extended Mind
Week 7Le Guin - The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas (optional)
Case - Would You Walk Away? (optional)
Nozick - The Experience Machine
Week 8Danaher - Will Life Be Worth Living in a World Without Work?
Chiang - Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art
Nguyen et al - Twitter Gamifies the Conversation (optional)
* Nguyen (simple pdf version) - optional here
Bostrom - The Dragon Tyrant & Life-Extension
Week 9Williams - The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality
Fischer - Why Immortality Is Not So Bad
Kass - Preventing a Brave New World
Flanigan - Defense of Compulsory Vaccination
Week 10Cohen - The Case for the Use of Animals
Week 11Norcross - Puppies, Pigs, and People
Hopkins, Dacey, Milburn - Cultured Meat
Week 12Roff & Sparrow - Autonomous Weapons and Moral Responsibility
Week 13Danaher - The Sex Robot Debate
Parfit, Bostrom, Chalmers - On the Singularity
Week 14