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Taught by Professor Patrick Grim | 30 min | Categories: Philosophy & Religion
Physicists and philosophers have relied on thought experiments for thousands of years. But how can we know that the conclusions of thought experiments are correct? Learn what Leibniz' "giant head" and Searle's "Chinese room" can tell us about materialism-and about the potential limits of our own imaginations....
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
8
Strange Cases of Consciousness
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of 30 min
9
Altered States of Consciousness
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of 32 min
10
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
16
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
