Winter 2000   Larry Hauser's Virtual Office Email: hauser@alma.edu   ?

• Discussion Forums
• Undead Discussion
• What Things Think?
• Turing 2000: The Future of the Turing Test
• 2000 Loebner Prize Contest Results & Transcripts
• Chat with ALICE, the 2000 Loebner Prize Contest Winner
• Other Chatterbots
• Conference Papers Online
• Look Who's Moving the Goal Posts Now by Larry Hauser
• Passing Loebner's Turing Test: A Case of Conflicting Discourse Functions by Sean Zdenek
• Proto Thinker Project
• Readings
• Computing Machinery and Intelligence by Alan Turing (new!)
• Look Who's Moving the Goal Posts Now by Larry Hauser (as presented at Dartmouth 1/29/00 )
• De Anima (On the Soul) by Aristotle
• required: Bk.2, Ch.1; Bk.3, Ch.3
• recommendation: browse other topics that interest you: skip Bk.1
• Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes
• Meditation 1
• Meditation 2
• Meditation 6
• Discourse on Method by Rene Descartes
• Part V: selection
• Descartes: Minds and Other Minds by Larry Hauser
• Of Liberty and Necessity by David Hume (An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section 8)
• Online Resources & Essays
• AI & Other Minds
• Did HAL Commit Murder by Daniel Dennett
• I Married a Computer by John Searle
• Absent Qualia, Fading Qualia, Dancing Qualia by David Chalmers
• LH's Unauthorized Online Supplement to S. Guttenplan's Companion to the Philosophy of Mind
• LH's Unauthorized Online Companion to R. E. Horn's Mapping the Great Debates
• The AI Debate: Can Machines Think? (compare Map 1)

• Online Discussion Forum
• Texts
• The Elements of Moral Philosophy 2nd edition, James Rachels, McGraw-Hill Inc.
• Text: Practical Ethics, Peter Singer, Cambridge University Press.
• Schedule of Presentations
• Survey Results
• Lecture Outlines
• Rachels: Elements of Moral Philosophy (2nd edition)
• What is Morality? (Rachels, Ch. 1)
• Cultural Relativism (Rachels, Ch. 2)
• Subjectivism (Rachels, Ch. 3)
• Morality and Religion (Rachels, Ch. 4)
• Psychological Egoism (Rachels, Ch. 5)
• Ethical Egoism (Rachels, Ch. 6)
• The Utilitarian Approach (Rachels, Ch.7)
• Debate Over Utilitarianism (Rachels, Ch. 8)
• Are There Absolute Moral Rules (Rachels, Ch. 9)
• Kant and Respect for Persons (Rachels, Ch. 10)
• The Idea of a Social Contract (Rachels, Ch. 11)
• Feminism and the Ethics of Care (Rachels, Ch. 12)
• The Ethics of Virtue (Rachels, Ch. 13)
• Singer: Practical Ethics
• Equality and Affirmative Action (Singer, Ch. 1-2)
• Equality for Animals (Singer, Ch. 3)
• What's Wrong With Killing (Singer, Ch. 4)
• Killing Animals (Singer, Ch. 5)
• Fetal Rights: Abortion, & Cloning (Singer, Ch. 6)
• Killing Humans: Euthanasia (Singer, Ch. 7)
• Rich and Poor (Singer, Ch. 8)
• Refugees and Immigration (Singer, Ch. 9)
• Environmental Ethics (Singer, Ch. 10)
• Law & Morality: Civil Disobedience (Singer, Ch.11)
• Student Essays
• Affirmative Action
• Affirmative Action: Should it be Mended or Ended? by Beatrice Chege
• Environmental Ethics
• Shallow Ecology, Deep Ecology, and Environmental Action by Adel C. Wentworth
• Immigration
• Insiders and Outsiders by John Gardai
• The Great Immigration Debate by Katie Kooyers
• Legality & Morality
• The Case Against America's War on Drugs by Clark Abel

• The Classic Philosophers: summaries of the views of various philosophers
• Aristotle's Ethics: Forum & Resources
• Timeless: Contemporary Physicist Supports Augustine's Denial of the Reality of Time
• I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine by Bob Dylan (lyrics)

PHL229: Medical Ethics: (MW 2:20-3:50)

• Online Discussion Forum
• Lecture Outlines
• Chapter 1: Biomedical Ethics
• Chapter 2: The Physician-Patient Relationship
• Chapter 4: Human and Animal Experimentation
• Chapter 5: Mental Illness, Retardation, and Dementia
• Chapter 6: Death and Decisions Regarding Life-Sustaining Treatment
• Chapter 7: Suicide, Active Euthanasia, and the Treatment of Impaired Infants
• Chapter 8: Abortion and Maternal-Fetal Conflicts
• Chapter 9: Genetics and Human Reproduction
• Chapter 10: Social Justice and Health-Care Policy

Of General Interest

• Materials on the Internet: Cautionary Note: Let the Browser Beware!
• Alma Online Forums
• LH's Philosophy Resources, Etc.
• Search Engine(s)
• LH's Philosophy Bookshelf
• APA Guide to Nonsexist Writing
• Hints on Paper Writing from G. J. Mattey of U. C. Davis
• Blackwell's Glossary of Philosophical Terms

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