? Credit Points : 20  ? SCQF Level : 11  ? Acronym : PPL-P-MetaofMin

This course focuses on the two mind-body problems. The first concerns mental causation. We tend to behave in such a way that our desires are fulfilled if our beliefs are true. But how can mental states cause our body to move? The second part concerns consciousness. If our best physical sciences are right, then our world is entirely composed of physical objects and properties. But how do we place consciousness in such a world?

Shared with UG course U04098 Metaphysics of Mind

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Home subject area

Philosophy, (School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, Schedule I)

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Not being delivered

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 11 weeks

Students who have completed this course should be able to:
* Understand competing major contemporary theories of the nature of the mental and its relationship with the physical world
* Critically assess various conceivability arguments against physicalism such as the knowledge argument
* Critically assess the problems of mental causation for substance dualism and property dualism

One 2,500 word essay

The Course Secretary should be the first point of contact for all enquiries.

Course Secretary

Miss Lynsey Buchanan
Email : Lynsey.Buchanan@ed.ac.uk

Course Organiser

Dr Jesper Kallestrup
Email : jesper.kallestrup@ed.ac.uk

School Website : http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/

College Website : http://www.hss.ed.ac.uk/