Mind-body philosophy

CD Audiobook

Mind-body philosophy / Patrick Grim.

Grim, Patrick, (lecturer.). Teaching Company, (production company.).

Summary:

Explore how the brain creates your experience of reality with Professor Patrick Grim.

ISBN: 9781629973630
ISBN: 1629973637
Physical Description: 12 audio discs (12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 273 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Publisher: Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, [2017]

General Note:: Title from disc label.

24 lectures (30 min. each).

Course no. 4932.

Compact discs.
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Course guidebook includes bibliographical references (pages 251-269).
Formatted Contents Note:: Disc 1. Mind, body, and questions of consciousness -- Mind and body in Greek philosophy -- Disc 2. Eastern perspectives on mind and body -- Using the body to shape the mind -- Disc 3. History of the soul -- How Descartes divided mental from physical -- Disc 4. Mistakes about our own consciousness -- Strange cases of consciousness -- Disc 5. Altered states of consciousness -- Memory, mind, and brain -- Disc 6. Self-consciousness and the self -- Rival psychologies of the mind -- Disc 7. The enigma of free will -- Emotions : where mind and body meet -- Disc 8. Could a machine be conscious? -- Computational approaches to the mind -- Disc 9. A guided tour of the brain -- Thinking body and extended mind -- Disc 10. Francis Crick and binding in the brain -- Clues on consciousness from anesthesiology -- Disc 11. Of mind, materialism, and zombies -- Thought experiments against materialism -- Disc 12. Consciousness and the explanatory gap -- A philosophical science of consciousness.
Participant or Performer Note:: Lecturer, Professor Patrick Grim.