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PHIL 3607 is also offered in Spring 2025
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PHIL 3607 is also offered in Spring 2023
PHIL 3607 is also offered in Fall 2021
Fall 2021 | PHIL 3607 Section 001: Philosophy of Psychology (34312)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 10
- Enrollment Status:
Open (119 of 140 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What are minds and mental states (like desires and beliefs)? How are these different from brains and brain states? Should scientific explanation abandon any appeal to the mental (like behaviorism) or can we offer a scientific account of mind? prereq: One course in philosophy or psychology
- Class Notes:
- Francis Crick wrote in The Astonishing Hypothesis that "a person's mental activities are entirely due to the behavior of nerve cells, glial cells, and the atoms, ions, and molecules that make them up and influence them." In other words, our minds are our brains, and all of our thoughts and feelings (our most profound ideas, our deepest loves, and everything else) are just physical states of our bodies. If this is what we human beings are, is there any room for free will? For responsibility and moral obligation? For virtue? For happiness and true friendship? For self-control and agency? How does consciousness arise if we are just physical beings like any other living thing? And is it really true that this is all we are? In this course we examine these questions by reading what philosophers and psychologists have had to say about them. The course does not presuppose any previous study of philosophy or psychology, though some familiarity with one of these fields will be helpful.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34312/1219
Fall 2021 | PHIL 3607 Section 002: Philosophy of Psychology (34313)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 205
- Auto Enrolls With:
- Section 001
- Enrollment Status:
Closed (36 of 36 seats filled)
- Course Catalog Description:
- What are minds and mental states (like desires and beliefs)? How are these different from brains and brain states? Should scientific explanation abandon any appeal to the mental (like behaviorism) or can we offer a scientific account of mind? prereq: One course in philosophy or psychology
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34313/1219
Fall 2021 | PHIL 3607 Section 003: Philosophy of Psychology (34314)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 225
- Auto Enrolls With:
- Section 001
- Enrollment Status:
Open (34 of 35 seats filled)
- Course Catalog Description:
- What are minds and mental states (like desires and beliefs)? How are these different from brains and brain states? Should scientific explanation abandon any appeal to the mental (like behaviorism) or can we offer a scientific account of mind? prereq: One course in philosophy or psychology
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34314/1219
Fall 2021 | PHIL 3607 Section 004: Philosophy of Psychology (34315)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 225
- Auto Enrolls With:
- Section 001
- Enrollment Status:
Open (20 of 35 seats filled)
- Course Catalog Description:
- What are minds and mental states (like desires and beliefs)? How are these different from brains and brain states? Should scientific explanation abandon any appeal to the mental (like behaviorism) or can we offer a scientific account of mind? prereq: One course in philosophy or psychology
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34315/1219
Fall 2021 | PHIL 3607 Section 005: Philosophy of Psychology (34316)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 205
- Auto Enrolls With:
- Section 001
- Enrollment Status:
Open (29 of 34 seats filled)
- Course Catalog Description:
- What are minds and mental states (like desires and beliefs)? How are these different from brains and brain states? Should scientific explanation abandon any appeal to the mental (like behaviorism) or can we offer a scientific account of mind? prereq: One course in philosophy or psychology
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34316/1219
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