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Philosophical Issues in Brain Science

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States24.08J
Free, no sign-up neededSpring 2009English
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This course provides an introduction to important philosophical questions about the mind, specifically those that are intimately connected with contemporary psychology and neuroscience. Are our concepts innate or are they acquired by experience? And what does it even mean to call a concept ‘innate’? Are ‘mental images’ pictures in the head? Is color in the mind or in the world? Is the mind nothing more than the brain? Can there be a science of consciousness?

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