Introducing consciousness

What is consciousness? How does the brain generate consciousness and how can a science of the mind describe and explain it adequately? This free course, Introducing consciousness, will introduce you to the slippery phenomenon that is consciousness, as well as some of the difficulties consciousness presents to science and philosophy.

• Introduction
• Learning outcomes
• 1 Consciousness
• 1 Consciousness
• 2 Defining consciousness
• 2 Defining consciousness
• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 What it's like
• 2.3 Some distinctions
• 3 The elusiveness of consciousness
• 3 The elusiveness of consciousness
• 4 The problem of consciousness
• 4 The problem of consciousness
• 4.1 Introduction
• 4.2 Naturalism and reductive explanation
• 4.3 The easy problems and the hard problem
• 4.4 Physicalism and the hard problem
• 4.5 The function of consciousness
• 5 Conclusion
• 5 Conclusion
• References
• Further reading
• Acknowledgements