This is the home page for Philosophy 416/516, Philosophy of Mind, which was last taught in the Fall semester of 2009 by Professor Ron McClamrock of the University at Albany Department of Philosophy.

The course is now over; much of the material has been taken down. I expect the course will be offered again in 2011.

There’s a copy of the course syllabus available here.

If you have questions about the site or the course, please e-mail me at ron at albany dot edu.

Course Description

An examination of the modern version of the traditional mind-body problem and issues connected with it. Topics to be covered will include varieties of dualism and materialism, the problem of mental causation, reductionism and the mind-body problem, the relevance of various kinds of scientific theorizing about mind to the traditional mind-body problem, and some puzzles concerning qualia, embeddedness, and intentionality.