Mind-Body Philosophy
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
Explore how the brain creates your experience of reality with an award-winning Professor of Philosophy.
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Mind, Body, and Questions of Consciousness
- 02: Mind and Body in Greek Philosophy
- 03: Eastern Perspectives on Mind and Body
- 04: Using the Body to Shape the Mind
- 05: History of the Soul
- 06: How Descartes Divided Mental from Physical
- 07: Mistakes about Our Own Consciousness
- 08: Strange Cases of Consciousness
- 09: Altered States of Consciousness
- 10: Memory, Mind, and Brain
- 11: Self-Consciousness and the Self
- 12: Rival Psychologies of the Mind
- 13: The Enigma of Free Will
- 14: Emotions: Where Mind and Body Meet
- 15: Could a Machine Be Conscious?
- 16: Computational Approaches to the Mind
- 17: A Guided Tour of the Brain
- 18: Thinking Body and Extended Mind
- 19: Francis Crick and Binding in the Brain
- 20: Clues on Consciousness from Anesthesiology
- 21: Of Mind, Materialism, and Zombies
- 22: Thought Experiments against Materialism
- 23: Consciousness and the Explanatory Gap
- 24: A Philosophical Science of Consciousness?
Taught by
Patrick Grim
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