Mind-Body Philosophy

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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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