In addition to the weekly readings, you may wish to use the web for additional resources and background information. Below is a list of web-sites containing information related to the topics. If you have any suggestions, or are aware of any dead links, please let us know at info@cognitiveliberty.org

Week 1:            Introduction to Cognitive Liberty

Center for Cognitive liberty & Ethics: http://www.cognitiveliberty.org

FindLaw: U.S. Constitution: First Amendment Text & Annotations: http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment01/

UN Declaration of Human Rights (see Articles 18-19) http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html

Listing of philosophers and selected works having to do with the philosophy of liberty: http://www.libertyguide.com/lol/ifigures.html

The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression http://www.tjcenter.org/about.html

American Civil Liberties Union http://www.aclu.org/

“Critical Thinking: What It Is and Why It Counts” by Peter Facione http://www.calpress.com/pdf_files/what&why.pdf

Week 2:            Introduction II: Philosophical Issues

Philosophers of Freedom of Speech 
http://cavern.uark.edu/depts/comminfo/freespeech/thinkers.html

Brain, Mind, Society And Ethics http://www.law.mcgill.ca/research/cmel/4pager.htm

Meta-Encyclopedia of Philosophy: this site provides access to and comparisons of entries in philosophical encyclopedia. http://www.ditext.com/encyc/frame.html

Week 3:            Food for Thought: Input & Output

American Library Association “Notable First Amendment Court Cases” http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/1stcases.html

Electronic Frontier Foundation http://www.eff.org/

Independent Media Center http://www.indymedia.org/

Electronic Privacy Information Center http://epic.org/

The File Room http://www.thefileroom.org/

Free Expression Network http://freeexpression.org/

Internet Free Expression Alliance http://www.ifea.net/

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

American Association of University Professors “Academic Freedom & Tenure” page at http://www.aaup.org/Com-a/    Links to:

• 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure
• Statement of Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure
  on "Academic Freedom in the wake of September 11, 2001."

“Academic Freedom in the USA” by Ronald B. Standler http://www.rbs2.com/afree.htm

Statement on Academic Freedom, University Autonomy and Social Responsibility proposed by the International Association of Universities http://www.unesco.org/iau/tfaf_statment.html

Academic Freedom Links & Academic Freedom After Sept. 11 http://www.collegefreedom.org/links.htm

“ACTA, the new McCarthyist organization” NY Times article by Christoph Reuss http://csf.colorado.edu/envtecsoc/2001/msg00619.html

American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) http://www.goacta.org/index.htm

• Report (revised!) “Defending Civilization: How Our Universities Are Failing America and What Can Be Done About It” http://www.goacta.org/Reports/defciv.pdf

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

Louis Althusser archive http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/index.htm

Guy Debord “Society of the Spectacle” Complete text at: http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/pub_contents/4

Douglas Rushkoff’s site http://www.rushkoff.com/

Lawrence Lessig’s home page: http://lessig.org/

• One of his last public lectures  http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/freeculture/

“Deconstructing Constructivism: The Kantian Connection” by Tyrone J. McNichols, from Journal Of Philosophy And History Of Education, Vol. 49: http://members.aol.com/jophe99/mcnichol.htm

Week 6:             Consuming Thoughts: The Mass Media

Columbia Journalism Review “Who Owns What” http://www.cjr.org/owners/

Adbusters http://www.adbusters.org/

Noam Chomsky Archive http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/index.cfm

Week 7:         The Politics of Consciousness, Altered States, & Baseline Consciousness

Recent MKULTRA-related news article : "Scientist's Death Haunts Family" by 
Fredric N. Tulsky (San Jose Mercury News Aug 8, 2002)
http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/News/olson_cia_lsd1.htm

Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness http://assc.caltech.edu/

The following summaries reflect the most pivotal legal cases impacting mental illness law and how the courts handle the complex issues of insight, competence and treatment. http://www.psychlaws.org/LegalResources/Case%20Laws/CaseLawIndex.htm

TASTE (The Archives of Scientists' Transcendent Experiences)
http://www.issc-taste.org/index.shtml

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

William James Subjective Effects of Nitrous Oxide http://www.emory.edu/EDUCATION/mfp/jnitrous.html

“In Drugs We Trust: Why Do Americans Make War on Some Drugs and Build Fortunes on Others?” Salon offers a week's worth of special features on legal drugs. http://www.salon.com/july97/druglist.html

Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) http://www.maps.org/

Heffter Research Institute http://www.heffter.org/

Vaults of Erowid http://www.erowid.org/index.shtml

Lycaeum http://www.lycaeum.org/

Drug Policy Alliance http://www.drugpolicy.org/

TRIP: The Journal of Modern Psychedelic Culture http://www.tripzine.com/

Council On Spiritual Practices http://www.csp.org/index.html

• Religion and Psychoactive Sacraments: An Entheogen Chrestomathy http://www.csp.org/chrestomathy/

Office of National Drug Control Policy http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/

• “Truth: The Anti-Drug”http://www.theantidrug.com/

US Drug Enforcement Administration http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/

Students for Sensible Drug Policy http://www.ssdp.org/

Drug And Alcohol Testing Industry (DATIA) http://www.datia.org/

D.A.R.E http://www.dare-america.com/

DanceSafe http://www.dancesafe.org/index.php

Week 9:            Technology & the Mind I

Brain Fingerprinting http://www.brainwavescience.com/

The Hastings Center http://www.thehastingscenter.org/default.asp

Various articles & links http://www.gyre.org/

Week 10:            Technology & the Mind II: Social Implications

Technorealism http://www.technorealism.org/

Human Genome Project Information: Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues http://www.ornl.gov/hgmis/elsi/elsi.html

World Transhumanist Association http://www.transhumanism.org/

Techné: Journal of the Society for Philosophy and Technology http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/

Essays on the Philosophy of Technology http://commhum.mccneb.edu/PHILOS/techessay.htm

 “The Question Concerning Technology” by Martin Heidegger http://www.centenary.edu/~balexand/cyberculture/questiontech.html

Week 11:            Reading the Mind: Looking Out, Looking In–Surveillance Technologies

Wired article: The Surveillance Society 
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/surveillance_pr.html

Department of Homeland Security http://www.whitehouse.gov/deptofhomeland/

Privacy Commissioner Launches Charter Challenge Ottawa, June 21, 2002 - The Privacy Commissioner of Canada is initiating a Charter challenge of the RCMP's video surveillance activities in Kelowna, B.C. http://www.privcom.gc.ca/media/nr-c/02_05_b_020621_e.asp

David Lyon’s homepage (links to online articles at bottom) http://qsilver.queensu.ca/sociology/dl.htm

Echelon Watch http://www.echelonwatch.org/

Week 12:       Reality Models

Religious Freedom Restoration Acts: http://www.religious-freedom.org/rfratop.html

The Deoxyribonucleic Hyperdimension  www.deoxy.org

Noosphere: The Expanding Web of Consciousness  http://www.technoetic.com/noosphere/

“Mavericks of the Mind: Internet Edition” by David Jay Brown & Rebecca McCLen Novick http://www.levity.com/mavericks/frames11.htm

“Timothy Leary's Eight Circuits of Consciousness” From Robert Anton Wilson's Cosmic Trigger: Final Secret of the Illuminati  http://www.deoxy.org/8circuit.htm

John C. Lilly “Programming And Metaprograming In The Human Biocomputer” http://www.eccosys.co.jp/lilly/metaprog00.html

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