Seminars
Participants are taught in small seminar groups of up to 12 students, and receive two one-on-one tutorials with their tutor.
Sunday
Seminar 1: Bats, bricks, black and white rooms, and inverted spectrums: Introducing the ‘hard’ problem of consciousness.
Seminar 2: Descartes’ arguments for substance dualism.
Monday
Seminar 3: Libet, brain scanning, and free will. David Chalmer’s argument.
Seminar 4: Panpsychism – is consciousness everywhere?
Tuesday
Seminar 5: Could a machine have a mind?
Seminar 6: Behaviourism and functionalism
Wednesday
Seminar 7: Eliminative materialism. Problem of other minds
Seminar 8: Kripke’s argument against physicalism – the set up
Thursday
Seminar 9: Kripke’s argument against physicalism – the argument
Seminar 10: Wittgenstein and the illusionist turn
Friday
Seminar 11: Wittgenstein on beetles and private languages
Seminar 12: Overview
Programme timetable
The daily timetable will normally be as follows:
Saturdays
14.00–16.30 - Registration
16.30–17.00 - Orientation meeting
17.00–17.30 - Classroom orientation for tutor and students
17.30–18.00 - Drinks reception
18.00–20.00 - Welcome dinner
Sundays – Fridays
09.00–10.30 - Seminar
10.30–11.00 - Tea/coffee break
11.00–12.30 - Seminar
12.30–13.30 - Lunch
13.30–18.00 - Afternoons are free for tutorials, individual study, course-related field trips or exploring the many places of interest in and around Oxford.
18.00–19.00 - Dinner (There is a formal gala dinner every Friday to close each week of the programme)
A range of optional social events will be offered throughout the summer school. These are likely to include: a quiz night, visit to historic pubs in Oxford, visit to Christ Church for Evensong and after-dinner talks and discussions.