Start Date
24 April, 2024
There will be 6 weekly meetings on Wednesday, 6 - 8pm, starting from 24 April.
Overview
If I open up your brain while you read this, would I see anything resembling a person looking at a screen? Is the brain like a computer, processing everything that comes into it into easily accessible formats? When we automatically switch and move amongst gears, wheel, clutch, and accelerator, how could we argue that our bodies -- rather than our brains alone -- are doing the thinking? Can I understand your mental states in a way that shows me just how much you're getting excited about this course? In this course, we'll take a tour of the mind: what it is, what it does, how it works, and where it is.
This course will enable participants to rigorously debate and defend various positions relating to the mind's dependency on the brain, introduce participants to philosophical terminology and argumentative strategies, and, perhaps, leave participants in a position to defend the claim that smartphones can be part of the mind. This course is an introductory one that nonetheless takes a broad, encompassing tour of historical and contemporary philosophical positions in philosophy of mind, leaving participants well-equipped to take on further independent exploration. In addition, it is a course where persons of all ages, backgrounds, and stories are welcome.
1. Mind, Brain, and Body: What’s the Problem?
2. It’s all in your head!
3. Behaviour and Bodies.
4. Out of Our Heads! 4E Cognition.
5. How to Read Other People’s Minds.
6. The Deceiving Mind
Please note that the ‘last date available to book’ date is only a guide. We reserve the right to close bookings earlier if courses are over- or under-subscribed. In order to avoid disappointment, please be sure enrol as soon as possible. Registrations will not be processed until the following day if received after 3pm.
Course Lecturer: Harry Drummond
I am currently a final-year PhD student working at the intersections between Aesthetics, Philosophy of Art, and the Philosophy of Mind. I am also currently co-editor of the academic journal Debates in Aesthetics, and editorial assistant for the British Journal of Aesthetics. My published work includes peer-reviewed publications, encyclopedia articles, and an article in the magazine 'Philosophy Now'.
Courses fees: Full fee £90/Concession £45.
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