notas Harvard spring 05

Este es un post para que los trolls tengan con qué entretenerse, mientras los demás nos dedicamos a otros menesteres. Si no eres un troll (o muy curioso), deja de leer aquí­ y pasa al siguiente post. Así­ me pueden llamar prepotente, o dedicarse a puntualizar si los créditos de undergraduate en España equivalen a los puntos del puturrú de fua (qué tiempos aquellos, -¿os acordáis cuando en la TV aparecí­an grupos con crí­tica social como La Trinca? Supongo que ya no es así­, pero no lo sé porque hace mucho que no veo la TV).

Acabo de recibir mis notas de este semestre en la Harvard Extension School (donde se cursan las asignaturas a distancia, o mixtas, como en mi caso: undergraduate, 12 créditos). 2 notables (Ciencias Polí­ticas: Teorí­as de Ciudadaní­a; y Tecnologí­a y Derecho: Internet y Sociedad) y 1 sobresaliente (Introducción a la Metafí­sica). Lo importante no es eso, sino lo que he aprendido. Para que os hagáis una idea:

Libros que he leí­do este semestre (que por cierto recomiendo).-

METAFISICA:

Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, Norton.

Daniel Dennett, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, Simon and Schuster.

Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life, Norton.

John Leslie, ed., Modern Cosmology and Philosophy, Prometheus.

Thomas Nagel, What Does It All Mean?, Oxford.

John Perry, A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality, Hackett.

TEORIAS DE CIUDADANIA:

Castles, Stephen, and Davidson, Alastair, Citizenship and Migration

Allman, Dwight, and Beaty, Michael, Cultivating Citizens

Shafir, Gershon, The Citizenship debates

Aleinikoff, T. Alexander and Klusmeyer, Douglas, eds. _Citizenship Today: Global Perspectives and

Practices_

Otros (artí­culos, webs, sentencias, entrevistas, etc).-

TEORIAS DE CIUDADANIA:

J. Rawls, The Priority of Right and Ideas of the Good

Ed. R. Tucker, Marx-Engels Reader

P. B. Clarke, Citizenship

B. Barry, Culture and equality: An Egalitarian Critique of Multiculturalism

Gross, Multiethnic Citizenship

Ed. Allman et al, Cultivating Citizens (Soulcraft, Citizenship, and Churchcraft: The View from Hippo)

T. Bridges, The Culture of Citizenship: Inventing Postmodern Civic Culture

Ed. Nancy Rosemblum, Obligations of Citizenship and Demands of Faith

R. Lister, Citizenship: Feminist Perspectives

E.F. Isin & P.K. Wood, Citizenship and Identity

N. Tarcov, Lockean Liberalism and the Cultivation of Citizens

A. Wolfe, Have Americans Lost Their Virtues?

M.J. Sandel, Liberalism, Consumerism, and Citizenship

METAFISICA:

David Armstrong, Excerpt from A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility.

In David Armstrong, A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility. Cambridge University Press, 1989, pp. 3-15.

David Chalmers, “Naturalistic Dualism.”

From David Chalmers, The Conscious Mind. Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 123-131.

Noam Chomsky, Excerpts from Language and Problems of Knowledge.

In Noam Chomsky, Language and Problems of Knowledge. MIT Press, 1987, pp. 138-147.

Paul Churchland, Excerpt from “Reductionism, Qualia and the Direct Introspection of Brain States.”

Journal of Philosophy 82 (1985).

Daniel Dennett, “‘Epiphenomenal’ Qualia?”

From Daniel Dennett, Consciousness Explained (Little, Brown, 1991), pp. 398-401.

John Eccles, “The Uniqueness of the Psyche.”

In John Eccles, The Human Psyche (Routledge, 1980), pp. 237-241.

Ralph Estling, “The Trouble with Thinking Backwards.”

New Scientist, June 2, 1983.

Paul Edwards, “Why?” In Paul Edwards, ed., The Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Macmillan, 1967), vol. 8, pp. 296-302.

Fred Feldman, “The Case of the Great Falsifier.”

In Fred Feldman, ed., A Cartesian Introduction to Philosophy (rev. ed.). McGraw-Hill, 1995, pp. 32-36.

Alan Guth, “The Ultimate Free Lunch.”

In Alan Guth, The Inflationary Universe. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley,1997; pp. 1-15, 289-293.

Ian Hacking, “The Inverse Gambler‘s Fallacy: the Argument from Design. The Anthropic Principle Applied to Wheeler Universes.” Mind 96 (1987).

Terence Horgan, “Jackson on Physical Information and Qualia.”

Philosophical Quarterly 34 (1984).

Frank Jackson, “Brain and Mind.”

Philosophy of Social Science 14 (1984).

Frank Jackson, “What Mary Didn‘t Know”

Journal of Philosophy 83 (1986).

John Leslie, “No Inverse Gambler‘s Fallacy in Cosmology.” Mind 97 (1988).

David Lewis, “The Paradoxes of Time Travel.”

American Philosophical Quarterly 13 (1976), pp. 145-152.

David Lewis, “Possible Worlds.”

In David Lewis, Counterfactuals. Harvard University Press, 1973, pp. 84-91.

David Lewis, “Postscript to ‘ Mad Pain and Martian Pain.’ ”

In David Lewis, Philosophical Papers, volume 1. Oxford University Press, 1983.

Colin McGinn, “Can We Solve the Mind-Body Problem?” Mind 98 (1989).

Jacques Monod, “The Frontiers.”

From Jacques Monod, Chance and Necessity (Vintage, 1972).

Thomas Nagel, “Birth, Death and the Meaning of Life.”

In Thomas Nagel, The View from Nowhere (Oxford University Press, 1986a), pp. 208-214.

Thomas Nagel, “Evolutionary Epistemology.”

In Thomas Nagel, The View from Nowhere (Oxford University Press, 1986b), pp. 78-85.

Thomas Nagel, “The Objective Self.”

In Thomas Nagel, The View from Nowhere (Oxford University Press, 1986c), pp. 54-66.

Thomas Nagel, “Subjective and Objective.”

In Thomas Nagel, Mortal Questions. Cambridge University Press, 1979a.

Thomas Nagel, “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?”

In Thomas Nagel, Mortal Questions. Cambridge University Press, 1979b.

Robert Nozick, “Why Is There Something Rather than Nothing?”

In Robert Nozick, Philosophical Explanations (Harvard University Press, 1981).

Derek Parfit, “Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons.”

In Colin Blakemore and Susan Greenfield, eds., Mindwaves (Blackwell, 1987).

Derek Parfit, “The Puzzle of Reality.”

Times Literary Supplement, July 3, 1992. Also in Peter Van Inwagen and Dean Zimmerman , ed., Metaphysics: The Big Questions (Cambridge, 1999), pp. 427-429.

Bertrand Russell, From “Why I Am Not a Christian.”

In Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian. Simon & Schuster, 1957, pp. 5-14.

Bertrand Russell, “The Value of Philosophy.”

In Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy. Oxford University Press, 1912, pp. 153-161.

J. J. C. Smart, Excerpt from “Sensations and Brain Processes.”

In V. C. Chappell, ed., The Philosophy of Mind. Prentice-Hall, 1962.

Richad Swinburne, “Response to Derek Parfit.”

In Peter Van Inwagen and Dean Zimmerman , ed., Metaphysics: The Big Questions (Cambridge, 1999), pp. 427-429.

Richard Taylor, “Fate.”

In Richard Taylor, Metaphysics, 2nd ed. (Prentice-Hall, 1974), pp. 58-71.

Roy Weatherford, Excerpt from Philosophical Foundations of Probability Theory. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982. Pages 1-11.

Robert Wright, “The Intelligence Test.” The New Republic, January 29, 1990, pp. 28-36.

INTERNET Y SOCIEDAD:

International Herald Tribune online: UN Takeover of Internet? Some Are ‘Not Amused’, by Jennifer L. Schenker.

Newsweek International: A Net of Control, by Steven Levy.

GM v. Grokster

A.M. Records et al. v. Napster

GartnerG2 & Berkman Center, Five Scenarios for Digital Media in a Post-Napster World.

The Future of Digital Media (audio clip).

Case Study: Mary Bridges, Diebold v. the Bloggers.

The Gadget Factor (audio clip).

Jonathan Zittrain, “What the Publisher Can Teach the Patient: Intellectual Property and Privacy in an Era of Trusted Privication” (First half only, up to the section on privacy)

Audio Home Recording Act

Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), 17 USC 1201

A Constitutional Right to Decode, Declan McCullagh, Wired

Hacker Arrest Stirs Protest, Declan McCullagh, Wired

New Copyright Bill Heading to DC, Declan McCullagh, Wired

Framing the problem: Playboy Enterprises Inc. v. Universal Tel-a-Talk, Inc..

Domain names: Sallen v. Corinthians. The Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy and the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act.

ECLIP (regarding EU jurisdiction): Domain Names: Trademark Conflicts and Related Issues.

Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Identity Theft: When Bad Things Happen to Your Good Name.

TechNewsWorld, Internet Fraud Complaints Rise 60 Percent in 2003.

Tools to prevent Identity Theft and Brands Online: Cyveillance.

Yochai Benkler, From Consumers to Users: Shifting the Deeper Structures of Regulation Towards Sustainable Commons and User Access.

Pew Survey, Content Creation Online, February 2004.

Dave Winer, What Makes a Weblog a Weblog?

What is blogging? (video clip) at Welcome to the Blogosphere.

Harvard Magazine, Creating Community, On-line and Off.

BBC News Online: Iranian Bloggers rally against censorship, by Aaron Scullion.

WiredNews: Blogs coming of Age in Spain, by Xeni Jardin.

Presentation of Eugene Volokh, Weblogs and the Law (webcast)

The Nuremburg Files website

Sam Howe Verhovek, “Creators of Anti-Abortion Web Site Told to Pay Millions” The New York Times, February 3, 1999

United States v. Jake Baker

Seth Finkelstein‘s Anti-Censoring Website

Ben Edelman‘s Expert Report on Filtering for the ACLU

ACLU of Georgia v. Miller

Georgia Code 16-9-93.1

The Communications Decency Act

John Perry Barlow, A Declaration of Independence for Cyberspace

MAPS RBL

Intel v. Hamidi

Marsh v. Alabama

“Sidewalks, Sewers and State Action in Cyberspace”, Molly Shaffer Van Houweling (DRAFT)

P3P and Privacy on the Web FAQ.

Privacy Net’s Bake your own Internet Cookie.

Doubleclick – the first 6 pages.

Electronic Communications Privacy Act, Excerpts by Ronald J. Mann & Jane K. Winn– skim.

EU-Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications – Art. 1, Art. 5(1), Art. 5(3) and recitals 5-8, and 24-25.

U.K. Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 – Regulation No. 6 and explanatory note to Regulation No. 6.

Declan McCullagh, Wired, “TEMPEST Brewing for PC Privacy?”

Declan McCullagh, Wired, “Terror Act Has Lasting Effects”

Declan McCullagh, Wired, “Thumbs Down on Net Wiretaps”

Declan McCullagh, Wired, “How Far Can FBI Spying Go?”

FBI Congressional Statement on Carnivore

www.privacy.net (P3P, Anonymous remailer FAQ, Bake your own cookies)

Jonathan Zittrain, Be Careful What You Ask For: Reconciling a Global Internet and Local Law.

L‘Association Union des Etudiants Juifs de France (“UEJF”) et La Ligue contre le racisme et l‘antisémitisme (“LICRA”) v. Yahoo!, and Yahoo!, Inc. v. La Ligue contre racisme et l’antisémitisme et al.

Dow Jones v. Gutnick.

Andrew McLaughlin, “Internet Exchange Points.”

Andrew McLaughlin and Ethan Zuckerman, “Architecture,” BOLD Series on ICT and Development, 2003.

Asian Development Bank, Does Connectivity Mean Productivity? The Grameen Phone Project – An ICT Success Story, Toward E-Development in Asia and the Pacific: A Strategic Approach for Information and Communication Technology (2003).

James F. Moore, John Palfrey, and Urs Gasser, “ICT and Entrepreneurship,” BOLD series on ICT and Development, 2003.

Supongo que si has llegado hasta aquí­ te estás preguntando cómo narices he leí­do u ojeado todo eso. Y porqué.

El cómo es sencillo: eliminando la siesta, la comida (no el desayuno ni la cena, claro), la “pausa para el café”, recortando 3 horas al dí­a mi tiempo de sueño, en aviones, en trenes, en aeropuertos, grabando los audios en el iPod y escuchándolos en el bus o el metro, etc, etc. Preguntadle a cualquier estudiante en época de exámenes y os contarán 😉

El porqué también es sencillo: hambre de conocimientos. Me interesan esos (y otros muchos) temas, y no pararé de estudiar nunca (si las fuerzas me acompañan).

Y para los que comentéis “-¡imposible!” en mi blog… tratad de sacar esas notas sin leer ni estudiar, y luego me contáis cómo.