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Mind-Body Philosophy

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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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