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Taught by Professor Patrick Grim | 31 min | Categories: Philosophy & Religion
How can you know with absolute certainty that you exist? Rene Descartes famously answered: "I think; therefore I am." He also suggested a complete split between the mind and the physical body. The vast and sharply divided responses to Descartes' dualism still influence the ways in which we address the mind-body problem today....
24 Lectures
1
Mind, Body, and Questions of Consciousness
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of 32 min
2
Mind and Body in Greek Philosophy
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of 31 min
3
Eastern Perspectives on Mind and Body
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of 31 min
4
Using the Body to Shape the Mind
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of 32 min
5
History of the Soul
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of 32 min
6
How Descartes Divided Mental from Physical
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of 31 min
7
Mistakes about Our Own Consciousness
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of 29 min
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Strange Cases of Consciousness
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of 30 min
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Altered States of Consciousness
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of 32 min
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Memory, Mind, and Brain
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of 31 min
11
Self-Consciousness and the Self
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of 31 min
12
Rival Psychologies of the Mind
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of 33 min
13
The Enigma of Free Will
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of 30 min
14
Emotions: Where Mind and Body Meet
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of 31 min
15
Could a Machine Be Conscious?
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of 31 min
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Computational Approaches to the Mind
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of 32 min
17
A Guided Tour of the Brain
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of 30 min
18
Thinking Body and Extended Mind
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of 30 min
19
Francis Crick and Binding in the Brain
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of 32 min
20
Clues on Consciousness from Anesthesiology
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of 30 min
21
Of Mind, Materialism, and Zombies
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of 31 min
22
Thought Experiments against Materialism
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of 30 min
23
Consciousness and the Explanatory Gap
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of 31 min
24
A Philosophical Science of Consciousness?
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of 35 min
