Consciousness Course
Dive into key debates on consciousness and the mind, spanning Nagel's essays and Chalmers' ideas to cutting-edge neuroscience and AI developments. Tailored for humanities experts, this course equips you with practical methods to dissect thought experiments, evaluate theories, and bridge philosophy with empirical research in an accessible way.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
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What will I learn?
This course provides a straightforward practical guide to the mind-body problem, covering classic 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, engage in creating and critiquing thought experiments, and link philosophical debates to 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 debates swiftly.
- Interpret neuroscientific data to critique identity theory and functionalism.
- Create basic empirical experiments to test claims about consciousness.
- Compare physicalist, dualist, and panpsychist positions in concise writing.
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