PHIL 490 - Philosophy of Mind | 2024-2025

Academic Year
2024-2025
Course Credits
3.00
Course ID
PHIL 490
Course Name
Philosophy of Mind
Description
This course explores the philosophically perplexing tasks of finding a place for human consciousness in, and the mind’s causal relations to, the natural world. It also investigates the theories put forward to address these tasks, e.g., dualistic theories like substance dualism, dual-attribute theory, epiphenomenalism, and emergentism, and the monistic theories like physicalism (reductive, eliminative, and non-reductive), lived-body phenomenology, and neutral monism.
NB
Not offered every year. See department chair
Prerequisite(s)
3 sem. hrs. of philosophy.