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PHL 411 Philosophy of Mind

400 levelArts & Humanities10 topics

PHL 411 covers 10 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. The mind-body problem
  2. Dualist theories of mind
  3. Materialist and physicalist theories
  4. Behaviourism and functionalism
  5. Consciousness and qualia
  6. Personal identity over time
  7. The problem of disembodied existence
  8. Intentionality and mental representation
  9. The mind and artificial intelligence
  10. African perspectives on the person and mind

A sample from this course

One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

The mind-body problem

The mind-body problem asks how mental states such as thoughts, feelings, intentions, and consciousness relate to the physical body, especially the brain. For examination purposes, you must master the main positions—dualism, materialism or physicalism, and interactionist or non-interactionist responses—and understand the central difficulty of explaining how subjective experience fits into a physical world.

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