Official course handouts

"Some of Descartes' Arguments"

"Descartes' First Argument"

"The Smart-Black Dialogue and Beyond"

"A Bit More Clarification of the 'Language of Thought' Issue"

"A Final Objection to All Existing Psychosemantics"

"A Post-Final Objection to All Existing Psychosemantics"

"Vs. 'Cognitive Suicide' Arguments"

"Armstrong in Greenville"
 

Other documents and links

Descartes' military career

Watson's Descartes biography

Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia

"Descartes' First Argument and Leibniz' Law"

Ullin's brain  &  The Chris Mortensen photo

"A Deductive Argument for the Representational Theory of Thinking" (Mind and Language 8 (1993): 404-22).

Justin Fisher on Millikan

"A Particularly Compelling Refutation of Eliminative Materialism" (forthcoming in D.M. Johnson
and C.E. Erneling (eds.), Mind as a Scientific Object: Between Brain and Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

"The Plurality of Consciousness" (in J.M. Larrazabal and L.A. Perez Miranda (eds.), Language, Knowledge, and Representation (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishing, 2004)).

"Perspectival Representation and the Knowledge Argument" --expanded and CORRECTED version of a paper that appeared in Q. Smith and A. Jokic (eds.), Consciousness: New Philosophical Essays (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003); reaches a different conclusion from that of the published paper.

An excerpt from my article "Materialism" in the Macmillan Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, in which I set out the problem of characterizing materialism and my proposed solution to it.

New draft of Stanford Encyclopedia article on the Representational theory of qualia.

"The Case for Phenomenal Externalism" (in Philosophical Perspectives, Vol. 15: Metaphysics (Atascadero: Ridgeview
Publishing, 2001)).