Undergraduate Course: Mind, Body and Consciousness (PSYL10025)
Course Outline
| School | School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | The course introduces the hard problem of human consciousness and its context within contemporary psychology. It examines the role of the ¿ghost in the machine¿ and related concepts including the Homunculus Fallacy, Cartesian Theatre, Chinese Room, and Inverted Spectrum. Participants will have the opportunity to engage with phenomenological psychology and to debate and explore its ramifications. The course provides the opportunity to explore literature on embodiment, lived experience, intersubjectivity, the unconscious, and authenticity. Each two hour lecture consists of a practical and a theoretical period. In the practicum participants work together in small groups on structured tasks that offer the opportunity to experience the phenomenon under examination. In the theoretical period the course leader will introduce and summarise the topic, and some designated students will present short summaries of their readings. |
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Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | Degree major in Psychology and passes in Psychology courses at least to the equivalent of Junior Honours level in Edinburgh. Prior agreement with the 4th Year Honours Course Organiser |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course participants will have both a theoretical and an experiential understanding of some distinctive features of human consciousness and be able to:
identify the distinctive features of phenomenological psychology and to critique experimental psychology and the cognitive neurosciences.
evaluate notions of embodiment, lived experience, intersubjectivity, the unconscious, and authenticity in human experience.
formulate applications of phenomenological psychology and be able to give a coherent account of psychological phenomena in phenomenological terms.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Billy Lee
Tel: (0131 6)50 3342
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Course secretary | Ms Fiona Graham
Tel: (0131 6)50 3440
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