Philosophy of Mind

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Description: What is the 'Mind'? How can a human brain create thoughts, sensations, emotions, and abstract ideas? This class examines the nature of the brain, mind, soul, and self with the tools of philosophy, psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology. Is mental content completely 'in the head' and private? or is it irreducibly tied to external input and publicly accessible? Are inner feelings and consciousness incompatible with physical explanations?