課程資訊
課程名稱
道德責任與自由意志:哲學與神經生物學觀點
Philosophical & Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility & Free Will 
開課學期
109-1 
授課對象
文學院  哲學研究所  
授課教師
文 哲 
課號
Phl7565 
課程識別碼
124EM7990 
班次
 
學分
3.0 
全/半年
半年 
必/選修
選修 
上課時間
星期四A,B,C(18:25~21:05) 
上課地點
哲研討室二 
備註
本課程以英語授課。研究所:B、D領域。 大學部:(C)哲學專題群組。
總人數上限:15人 
 
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課程概述

We will read the book “Did My Neurons Make Me Do It? Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility and Free Will,” by Nancy Murphy & Warren S. Brown, OUP 2007. This book is about the mind-body problem and questions such as, how the mind evolved in a physical world; whether the mind can be identified with the brain; how reasons can be causes; whether there is something like “downward causation;” how intentionality, thought, language, and meaning might be “realized” in a physical-biological world and whether it might also be “reduced” to it; and how all these questions and their answers affect questions about free will and moral responsibility. We will draw on ideas from systems theory, neuroscience, evolution theory, linguistics, artificial intelligence, connectivism, representation theory, phenomenology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind. 

課程目標
The course objective is to arrive at a better understanding of mind, brain, language, intentionality, evolution, physicalism, inter-subjectivity; and then to consider questions about free will and moral responsibility. 
課程要求
Attendance is expected. If you are absent three times or more without good excuse, you run the risk of failing the course. Please consider the university regulation國立台灣大學學則, page 7. 
預期每週課後學習時數
 
Office Hours
 
指定閱讀
Our main text is “Did my neurons make me do it? Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility and Free Will” by Nancy Murphy & Warren S. Brown, OUP 2007.  
參考書目
Suggested background readings are:
1. Fred Dretske, “Explaining Behavior: Reasons in a World of Causes,” MIT 1988.
2. Donald M. MacKay, “Behind the Eye,” Blackwell 1991.
3. Terrence D. Deacon, “The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain,” Norton 1997.
4. Alicia Juarrero, “Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System,” MIT 1999.
5. Alasdair MacIntyre, “Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the Virtues,” Open Court 1999.
6. Christian H. Wenzel “Does Thought Happen in the Brain?” in Mind Language and Action, Kirchberg 2013.
7. Christian H. Wenzel, 康德哲?中: 范?是否在知?中即已?扮演了角色? 2019, translation of “Spielen nach Kant die Kategorien schon bei der Wahrnehmung eine Rolle? Peter Rohs und John McDowell,” Kant-Studien 96/4 (2005).
8. Christian H. Wenzel, “How Representational is the Mind? Introduction and Overview,” PEW (to appear). 
評量方式
(僅供參考)
 
No.
項目
百分比
說明
1. 
Participation 
30% 
Attendance is expected. If you are absent three times or more without good excuse, you run the risk of failing the course. Please consider the university regulation國立台灣大學學則, page 7. 
2. 
Midterm 
30% 
 
3. 
Final  
40% 
 
 
課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
第1週
9/17  Introduction 1 
第2週
9/24  Introduction 2 
第3週
10/01  Avoiding Cartesian Materialism 
第4週
10/08  From Causal Reductionism to Self-Directed Systems 1 
第5週
10/15  From Causal Reductionism to Self-Directed Systems 2 
第6週
10/22  Review 
第7週
10/29  Midterm 
第8週
11/05  From Mindless to Intelligent Action 
第9週
11/12  How Can Neural Nets Mean? 1 
第10週
11/19  How Can Neural Nets Mean? 2 
第11週
11/26  How does Reason get its Grip on the Brain? 1 
第12週
12/03  How does Reason get its Grip on the Brain? 2 
第13週
12/10  Who is Responsible? 
第14週
12/17  Neurobiological Reductionism and Free Will 1 
第15週
12/24  Neurobiological Reductionism and Free Will 2 
第16週
12/31  Review 1 
第17週
1/07  Review 2 
第18週
1/14  Final