Reddit reviews Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings

I think Searl's book was titled "Minds, Brains, and Science" and one of his papers was called "Minds, Brains, and Computers", otherwise I agree with this list completely, adding in David Chalmers' "Consciousness and its Place in Nature" as well.

The Chalmers compilation Burnage mentions below contains most of these essays, and a few others that are also very good.

OP, this is the collection mentioned.

First off I think a good place to start is to try to isolate atleast some questions that strike you as particularly interesting. Simply starting at random in the midst of the endless mounds of philosophy done in the analytic style is a horrible and frustrating endeavour(speaking from experience).

That being said, two really good introductury anthologies that helped me alot are: Chalmer's The Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings. It contains key essays by key thinkers in the field as well as some really helpful considerations by Chalmers who attempts to tie the different schools together and show similarities and differences.
And Martinich's The Philosophy of Language which contains a big chunk of classical and semi-contemporary essays in the subject. Both are a great place to start if you want to go directly to the source and read the actual essays as opposed to secondary litterature.

Seeing as you are already familiar with Husserl and the earlier phenomenology I think going through philosophy of language can be a good idea. As Frege was a central character in Husserls earlier writings, it sets an interesting background to some of the differences in interpretation we find in the early analytic philosophers who were, like Husserl, inspired by Frege but came to radically different conclusions and interpretations.
Morris has written a really neat introductory book called An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language that goes well with Martinich's anthology.

Hope this helps!

edit: spelling, links

A few suggested additions:

• Philosophy of technology: Scharff's anthology and/or Kaplan's anthology
  
  
• Philosophy of mind: Maybe Searle's Mind: A Brief Introduction, and the Chalmers anthology

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I really enjoyed Dennett's Consciousness Explained. Chalmers' The Conscious Mind presents another popular view which, if I recall correctly, opposes Dennett's views. I'm slowly getting into work's by Steven Pinker.

Probably a general Philosophy of Mind reader would also benefit you just to get a good idea of the different views and topics out there within the discipline. I cannot remember which one I read years ago, although if I read one today I'd pick Chalmers' Philosophy of Mind or Kim's Philosophy of Mind.

If your school offers an introductory course in logic, you'd probably find it helpful. I think, probably the first thing that made me think about things differently was David Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Why do we believe any of the things we believe? It made me start asking "why?" about things I had never even thought to question before.

But I think if you find a topic that interests you, and a text that you can follow, almost anything will get you thinking more logically. Sometimes, topics in philosophy of mind are more accessible to people who don't plan to study philosophy full time. Perception is personal enough that it's more intuitive grasp the questions and arguments. This book was assigned in a class I took and it covered a wide variety of questions. I'd recommend it.

This what you're after. I can link a PDF if you need.

I don't know what else to say to you, other than Rand should have stuck to political philosophy.

Here's some reading. I keep this one in my office.

Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings
https://www.amazon.com/dp/019514581X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_XAWmDbZSHZDYB

This is more of an AcademicPhilosophy-style response, I suspect, but I would suggest checking out:

Metaphysics: An Anthology (Sosa and Kim)

Epistemology: An Anthology (Sosa and Kim)

Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings (Chalmers)

Philosophy of Language (Martinich)

Actually, a good primer might be Reason and Responsibility: Readings in Some Basic Problems of Philosophy

Chalmers has also published a pretty accessible anthology of classic readings in the Philosophy of Mind.

https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Mind-Classical-Contemporary-Readings/dp/019514581X

Philosophy. Seriously.

Considering how far away we are from a concrete answer this is as good a place to start as any. not discounting the considerable advances that have been made, just pointing out that there is a lot of disagreement at a very basic level of even the definition of the conciousness problem.

This is the primer I used for a class in college by Chalmers

And here's one that critiques some of those arguments by Searle

(these might be a little dated. anyone else have more current suggestions?)