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Doing Philosophy: An Introduction Through Thought Experiments, 2/e
Theodore Schick, Muhlenberg College
Lewis Vaughn

The Mind-Body Problem
The Ghost in the Machine: Mind as Soul

Thought Probes

Living in the Matrix: Is it possible that you are living in a computer-generated dream world as depicted in the movie The Matrix?

Are you living in a computer simulation?
(http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html)

Nick Bostrum’s argument that we may be living in a computer simulation.
What's So Bad about Living in the Matrix?
(http://www.princeton.edu/~jimpryor/papers/matrix.html)

Article on the Matrix by James Pryor.
The Matrix Online
(http://www.thematrixonline.com/docs/7796.html)

Article considering the Bostrum’s argument that we’re living in the Matrix.
Weekly World News
(http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/features/revelations_story.cfm?instanceid=48601)

Weekly World News article on Bostrum’s article
If life is just a game, who's the programmer?
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2002/08/21/ecfqed21.xlm)

Daily Telegraph article on the Bostrum’s argument
The Matrix discussion and Bible …
(http://www.mbconf.ca/cem/ideabank/0003/youth-1.html)

The Matrix and the Bible
The Matrix Metaphor
(http://www.zenzibar.com/Articles/matrix.asp)

Political implications of the Matrix
The Biblical Conception of the Person: Does the Bible support the view that people have an immortal soul?

Is Your Soul Immortal? What does the Bible say about the immortality...
(http://www.truechristian.org/are_you_a_t_c/soul.htm)

Interpretation of the Bible
Is there a term for 'immortal soul' in the Bible?
(http://www.biblebeliefs.net/immortalsoul/wordsoul.htm)

Terms translated as “soul” in the Bible
Does the Bible Teach That We Have an Immortal Soul?
(http://www.ucg.org/articles/heavenhell/immortal.html)

An interpretation of the Bible on the soul
Immortal Soul
(http://www.ucg.org/articles/gn23/soul.html)

The Bible on immortal soul
Animal Soul: Do animals have minds or souls?

Animal Consciousness
(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-animal/)

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article
Animal Intelligence
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A582275)

General BBC guide with overview of issues such as symbolic complexity, tool use, etc.
NATURE: Inside the Animal Mind
(http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/animalmind/)

Collection of articles and video clips to accompany PBS television special.
Animal Cognition and Learning
(http://www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/psych26/)

Course web site with numerous links by Robert Cook (Tufts University)
ANIMAL SOUL
(http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper59h.html)

Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on animal soul
Bodies, Minds, and Death: Do those in a permanent vegetative state have minds? If not, should they be declared dead?

Moral Personhood
(http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/p/personho.htm)

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy article
Ethics and Personhood
(http://www.scu.edu/SCU/Centers/Ethics/publications/submitted/Perry/neurological.html)

Article on personhood and PVS (permanent vegetative state)
Care of PVS Patients
(http://www.op.org/domcentral/study/kor/pvscare.htm)

Catholic view of those in a permanent vegetative state
An alternative conceptual structure for the resolution of end-of-life
(http://homepage.tinet.ie/~roche)

Thesis on the problems associated with those in a permanent vegetative state