sanity and madness

• science fiction
• science fact
• remarks

science fiction readings

• Philip K. Dick
  • The Unteleported Man
    DOWNLOAD PDF (password-protected):
    • *part 1 (about 40MB; do not attempt via a slow link!)
    • *part 2 (about 40MB; do not attempt via a slow link!)
  • Eye in the Sky
  • The Martian Time-Slip
  • Time out of Joint
  • Ubik
  • The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

science fact readings

• cognitive::
  1. *fMRI and cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia, R. L. C. Mitchell, R. Elliott and P. W. R. Woodruff, Trends in Cognitive Sciences 5:71-81 (2001)
  2. *Philosophical conceptions of the self: implications for cognitive science, S. Gallagher, Trends in Cognitive Sciences 4:14-21 (2000)
  3. *Capgras delusion: a window on face recognition, H. D. Ellis and M. B. Lewis, Trends in Cognitive Sciences 5:149-156 (2001)
• clinical:
  1. *Suicide as escape from self, R. F. Baumeister, Psychological Review 97:90-113 (1990)
  2. *Electrodermal activity and social network as predictors of outcome of episodes in schizophrenia, C. M. Hultman, A. Oehman, L. S. Oehlund, I.-M. Wieselgren, L.-G. Oest, Journal of Abnormal Psychology 105:626-636 (1996)
  3. *Autonomic orienting and the allocation of processing resources in schizophrenia patients and putatively at-risk individuals, E. A. Hazlett, M. E. Dawson, D. L. Filion, A. M. Schell, Journal of Abnormal Psychology 106:171-181 (1997)

remarks

• meeting 1: Dick; Ellis and Lewis; Mitchell, Elliott and Woodruff (Feb 10)
• meeting 2: Dick; Gallagher (Feb 17)