1.  Make the strongest case you can in favor of some form of Dualism, either by defending it directly or by offering replies to the sketchy anti-Dualist considerations offered in class.

2.  Discuss and criticize one or more of Descartes’ Dualist arguments, either as reconstructed in the handout “Descartes’ Arguments for Dualism” or as otherwise reconstructed by you.

3.  Prosecute the case against Cartesian Dualism, expanding one of our four objections or adding a new one of your own.

4.  Try to defend Ryle’s Behaviorism against one or more of the objections offered in class.  Is there hope for Behaviorism after all?

5.  Discuss Smart’s version of the Identity Theory.  Do his replies to all the objections work?  Or, evaluate Shaffer’s criticism.  Or, can you think of still other objection(s) Smart should have considered?

6.  Discuss Armstrong’s program of “causal analyses” of mental concepts.  Address Campbell’s critique; or can you think of other principled objections to the program?

7.  Assess Armstrong’s argument for the Identity Theory.

8.  Discuss Armstrong’s account of the secondary qualities, on pp. 186ff.

9.  Evaluate Lewis’ Ramsified version of the Commonsense Causal Theory.