So that's the end of the Philosophy of Mind course that I've been taking. Lectures, check. Term paper, check. Final exam, check. Now I wait to hear how I did.
I came out of the final exam feeling pretty good about it. Yes, I'd blanked on two of the short disambiguation questions (on Block's psychofunctionalism and Rosenthal's HOT), but I felt that the essays were OK, if slightly unbalanced (9 pages for one, 6 for the other). Now, of course (a couple of hours later) all I can think of is the defects: what I forgot to include, why I wasted time on McGinn instead of talking more about Churchland, why I didn't say more about how varieties of functionalism might be compatible with dualism, etcetera. However I guess that's only to be expected.
And now I've got this philosophy-shaped hole in my life! I'm not taking any courses this summer (too many potential distractions), so until the Fall Semester I guess I'm going to be reduced to reading some of the (many) books I acquired during the course. Summer reading, sitting on the deck, with a long cold drink... it could be worse.
Posted by geoff2 at May 11, 2005 04:48 PM