Mind-body philosophy /

Explore how the brain creates your experience of reality with an award-winning professor of philosophy.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grim, Patrick (lecturer.)
Corporate Author: Teaching Company
Format: DVD
Language:English
Published: Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, [2017]
Series:Great courses (DVD). Philosophy & intellectual history.
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Table of Contents:
  • Disc 1: 1. Mind, body, and questions of consciousness
  • 2. Mind and body in Greek philosophy
  • 3. Eastern perspectives on mind and body
  • 4. Using the body to shape the mind
  • 5. History of the soul
  • 6. How Descartes divided mental from physical.
  • Disc 2: 7. Mistakes about our own consciousness
  • 8. Strange cases of consciousness
  • 9. Altered states of consciousness
  • 10. Memory, mind, and brain
  • 11. Self-consciousness and the self
  • 12. Rival psychologies of the mind.
  • Disc 3: 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.
  • Disc 4: 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.