Mind and body
Key Questions:
Key Questions:
- What does philosophy tell us about the nature of mind and body?
- What, if any, are the relationships between mind and body?
- Why do we believe that other people have minds like ours?
- What do recent advances in neuroscience tell us about how the mind works?
Key Concepts:
Key Concepts:
- The mind-body problem
- The problem of other minds
- Consciousness
Key Terms:
Key Terms:
- Consciousness
- Dualism
- Monism
- Mind
- Mind-body problem
- Problem of Other Minds
- Soul
- Spirit
- Asceticism
- Theory of Forms (Plato)
- Scholasticism
- Foundationalism (Descartes)
- Interactionism (Descartes)
- Pineal Gland
- Ghost in the machine (Ryle)
- Solipsism
- Materialism (d’Holbach)
- Reductionism
- Dialectical logic (Hegel)
- Cognition
- Phenomenology
- Naturalism
- Functionalism (Dennett)
- Cartesian Theater (Dennett)
- “Hard Problem” of consciousness (Chalmers)
Links:
Links:
- The nature of reality (Crash Course video)
- Where does your mind reside? (Crash Course video)
- Augustine (School of Life video)
- The mind-body problem (School of Life video)
- What is the mind-body problem? (Daniel Dennett, Youtube )
- Solutions to the mind-body problem? (John Searle, Youtube )
- What is consciousness? (Michio Kaku, Youtube)
- What is consciousness? (vSauce video)
- Plato part 1: Arguments for the existence of the soul (Shelly Kagan, Youtube)
- Plato part 2: Arguments for the immortality of the soul (Shelly Kagan, Youtube)
- Plato part 3: Arguments for the immortality of the soul (Shelly Kagan, Youtube)
- Plato part 4: Arguments for the immortality of the soul (Shelly Kagan, Youtube)
Documents:
Documents:
