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Cognitive Liberty & Neuroethics Readings:

Week 1: Introduction to Cognitive Liberty

Readings:

Richard Glen Boire On Cognitive Liberty (Parts I-III) Part I, with links to II & III available
at: http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/1JCL/1jcl7.htm

Adina Roskies Neuroethics for the new millennium (from Neuron 35:21-23, July 3,
2002).

John Stuart Mill On Liberty (Parts I&II) Available at:

http://www.swan.ac.uk/poli/texts/mill/libcon.htm

Plato Apology Available at: http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/apology.html

Martin Heidegger What is Called Thinking?: Lecture I (in What is Called Thinking?)

U.S. Constitution: Amendments. Available at:

http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/charters_of_freedom/bill_of_rights/bill_of_rights.html

Aldous Huxley Culture and the Individual Available at:

http://www.psychedelic-library.org/huxcultr.htm

Week 2: Introduction II: Philosophical Issues

Readings:

John Stuart Mill On Liberty (Parts III&IV) Available at:

http://www.swan.ac.uk/poli/texts/mill/libcon.htm

Isaiah Berlin Two Concepts of Liberty (in Four Essays on Liberty). Excerpts.

H.L.A. Hart Are there any Natural Rights? (in Philosophical Review, 64 (1955))

Jean-Francois Lyotard The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (27-32, 47-

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Week 3: Food for Thought: Input & Output

Readings:

U.S. Supreme Court: STANLEY v. GEORGIA, 394 U.S. 557 (1969) Available at:
http://laws.findlaw.com/us/394/557.html

ACLU briefing paper Freedom of Expression Available at:

http://www.aclu.org/library/pbp10.html

Laurence H. Tribe, "The Constitution in Cyberspace" Available at:

http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/6805/articles/tribe-constitution.txt

John Perry Barlow A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace(Feb. 1996)

Available at:
http://www.eff.org//Publications/John_Perry_Barlow/barlow_0296.declaration

Week 4: Manufacturing Content I: Freedom and the Classroom (Academic

and Intellectual Freedom)

Readings:

Stanley Fish Academic Freedom: When Sauce for the Goose Isn't Sauce for the
Gander Available at: http://chronicle.com/free/v46/i14/14b00401.htm

Ronald Dworkin We Need a New Interpretation of Academic Freedom (in The Future of
Academic Freedom. ed. L Menand, p181-198).

American Association of University Professors Academic Freedom Of Individual

Professors And Higher Education Institutions: The Current Legal Landscape (Excerpts).
Full text available at http://www.aaup.org/Com-a/aeuben.HTM

Week 5: Manufacturing Content II: The Construction of Social Meaning

Readings:

Louis Althusser Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (in Lenin and Philosophy
and Other Essays)

Lawrence Lessig The Regulation of Social Meaning (in University of Chicago Law
Review Summer 1995). Excerpts.

Douglas Rushkoff They Say (in Coercion: Why We Listen to What They Say)
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Bernard McGrane The Zen TV Experiment Available at

http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/tvturnoff/toolbox/zentv.html

Week 6: Consuming Thoughts: The Mass Media

Readings:

Noam Chomsky Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies Chapter 1.

Kalle Lasn Culture Jam 29-41.

Ben H. Bagdikian Democracy and the Media (in The Media Monopoly) Available at:
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Media/DemoMedia_Bagdikian.html

Daniel Forbes "Prime Time Propaganda" (Salon 13 January 2000). Available at:
http://dir.salon.com/news/feature/2000/01/13/drugs/index.html Mirrored at:
http://vcsun.org/%7Ebattias/class/328/txt/forbes.html

Philip Jenkins Ecstasy and Synthetic Panics (in Journal of Cognitive Liberties Vol. 1,
Issue No. 3, Fall 2000,7-28) Also available at:
http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/3JCL/3JCL7.htm

Week 7: The Politics of Consciousness, Altered States, & Base-line

Consciousness

Readings:

R.D. Laing The Politics of Experience Chapter 6, Transcendental Experience

Arnold M. Ludwig Altered States of Consciousness (in Altered States of

Consciousness Ed. Charles Tart. P18-33.

Thomas B. Roberts Multistate Education: Metacognitive Implications of the Mindbody

Psychotechnologies (in Journal. of Transpersonal Psychology 1989, Vol. 21, No. 1)

U.S. Supreme Court: UNITED STATES v. STANLEY, 483 U.S. 669 (1987). Excerpts. Full
text available at http://laws.findlaw.com/us/483/669.html

Neil Munro Brain politics (from The National Journal Feb.3, 2001) Also available at:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/medicating/readings/brainpolitics.html

MKULTRA: Joint Hearing Before The Select Committee On Intelligence And The
Subcommittee On Health And Scientific Research Of The Committee On Human
Resources, United States Senate. Excerpts. Full text available at:
http://www.parascope.com/ds/documentslibrary/documents/mkultrahearing/index.htm
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Arthur Allen readin, ritin and ritalin (Salon July 97) Available at:
http://www.salon.com/july97/mothers/ritalin970716.html

Thomas S. Szasz, M.D. Chemical Straitjackets For Children Available at:

http://www.szasz.com/iol5.html

Week 8: Drugs: A Highly Opi(nion)ated Battle

Readings:

Jacques Derrida The Rhetoric of Drugs (in PointsInterviews, 1974-1994)

Huston Smith Do Drugs Have Religious Import? The Journal of Philosophy, Vol LXI,
No. 18, September 17, 1964 http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/hsmith.htm

Charles H. Whitebread The History of the Non-medical Use of Drugs in the United
States (Vol. 1, Issue No. 3 pages 29-64 (Fall 2000))
http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/3JCL/3JCL29.htm

A Psychedelicist Psychedelics: A First-Amendment Right

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/gnosis.htm#back3

Week 9: Technology & the Mind I

Readings:

Alan W. Scheflin and Edward M. Opton, Jr. Rewiring the Mind (Chapter 8 of The Mind
Manipulators)

Wrye Sententia Brain Fingerprinting: From Databodies to Databrains (in Journal of

Cognitive Liberties Vol. 2, Issue No. 3, 2001, 31-46). Also available at:
http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/6JCL/6JCL31.htm

Laurence Tribe Electronic Monitoring and Neurological Manipulation in Channeling

Technology Through Law 304-323.

Steve Kirsch Identifying terrorists before they strike by using computerized knowledge
assessment (CKA) Also available at: http://www.skirsch.com/politics/plane/ultimate.htm

Sharon Begley Your Brain on Religion: Mystic visions or brain circuits at work?
(Newsweek May 7, 2001). Available at:
http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/neurotheo/neuronewswk.htm
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Week 10: Technology & the Mind II: Social Implications

Readings:

Sadie Plant Information War in the Age of Dangerous Substances (in Journal of
Cognitive Liberties Vol. 2, Issue No. 1 pages 23-43 (2000)). Available at:
http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/4jcl/4JCL23.htm

US v. Dr Sell Forced Drugging Case:

Kelly Patricia O'Meara Federal Court OKs Forced Drugging (Article in Insight)
Available at: http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm?
include=detail&storyid=225524

Dr. Charles Thomas Sells Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the Supreme Court of
the United States

Brief Amicus Curiae of the Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics in Support of the
Petition for Certiorari http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/pdf/pet_cert_brief.pdf

Alan W. Scheflin and Edward M. Opton, Jr. Asserting the Mind (Chapter 12 of The
Mind Manipulators)

James C. O'Leary An Analysis of the Legal Issues Surrounding the Forced Use of
Ritalin: Protecting a Child's Right to Just Say No (from New England Law Review
V27#4, Summer 1993).

Week 11: Reading the Mind: Looking Out, Looking InSurveillance

Technologies

Readings:

Michel Foucault Panopticism (from Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison)

David Lyon New Directions in Theory (Chapter 7 of Surveillance Society)

Brandon Mercer, Tech Live Can Computers Read Your Mind? (Article, May 29, 2002)
http://www.techtv.com/news/print/0,23102,3386341,00.html

Web reading: ACLU Drug Testing: A Bad Investment Executive Summary & link to PDF
document at: http://www.aclu.org/issues/worker/summdrugtesting1999.html
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Week 12: Reality Models

Readings:

Robert Anton Wilson Creative Agnosticism Journal of Cognitive Liberties Vol. 2, Issue
No. 1 pages 61-84. Available at: http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/4jcl/4JCL61.htm

Ine Gevers Subversive Tactics of Neurologically Diverse Cultures Journal of Cognitive

Liberties Vol. 1, Issue No. 2 pages 43-60 (Spring/Summer 2000). Available at:
http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/2JCL/2JCL43.htm

Erik Davis This is Your Brain on Buddha: Dharma and Neuroscience Appeared in
Feed, June 23, 1999; also available at: http://www.techgnosis.com/brain.html

Jean Baudrillard Simulacra and Simulations (Excerpt from Jean Baudrillard, Selected
Writings, ed. Mark Poster). Also available at:
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Baudrillard/Baudrillard_Simulacra.html

U.S. Supreme Court Employment Div., Ore. Dept. Of Human Res. V. Smith. Available at:
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?
navby=case&court=us&vol=494&invol=872