Consciousness Course
Dive into timeless and current discussions on consciousness and the mind, spanning Nagel, Chalmers, neuroscience, and AI implications. Tailored for humanities experts, this course equips you with practical methods to dissect thought experiments, evaluate theories, and link abstract philosophy to empirical evidence from brain science and cognition research.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
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What will I learn?
This course provides a straightforward, hands-on guide to the mind-body challenge, drawing from key works by Nagel, Chalmers, and Jackson, up to modern ideas like Integrated Information Theory and Global Workspace Theory. Learners will evaluate physicalist, dualist, and illusionist perspectives, hone skills in creating and critiquing thought experiments, and bridge philosophical debates with actual neuroscience and cognitive studies.
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Develop skills
- Analyze classic and modern theories of consciousness confidently.
- Apply thought experiments and modal logic to evaluate mind-body claims swiftly.
- Interpret neuroscientific data to critique identity theory and functionalism.
- Create basic empirical experiments to test philosophical ideas on consciousness.
- Compare physicalist, dualist, and panpsychist positions in concise writing.
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