Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Prerequisites: Any Two courses from HUL2XX category
Allocation Preference: HUL251, HUL258, HUL253, HUL256, Categorial taxonomy of Mental Phenomena: Intentional and Phenomenal.
Description
Theories of the Mind-Body relation: Cartesian Dualism; Behaviourism; Identity Theory or Physicalism; Functionalism.
Personal Identity and the Self: The First-person Point of View.
Consciousness and Content: Phenomenal Intentionality; Representationalism; Internalism and Externalism about Experience; Qualia and the Knowledge Argument.
Consciousness and Self-consciousness: Pre-reflective Self- consciousness; One-level Accounts of Self-consciousness; Temporality and the Limits of Reflective Self-consciousness; Bodily Self-awareness; Social Forms of Self-awareness.
Critique of the Computational Theory of Mind: Searle’s Chinese Room Argument and the Frame Problem.