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Intro to Consciousness BSCS 2013 Fall (November 25-29, PHIL305)

Intro to Consciousness BSCS 2013 Fall (November 25-29, PHIL305). George Kampis, Professor Eötvös University, Budapest. Resources. The course is based on:

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Intro to Consciousness BSCS 2013 Fall (November 25-29, PHIL305)

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  1. Intro toConsciousnessBSCS 2013 Fall(November 25-29, PHIL305) George Kampis, Professor Eötvös University, Budapest

  2. Resources • The course is based on: • Blackmore, S. (2004). Consciousness: An Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Students may wish to purchase it - although it is not required, it is highly useful. • Another fundamental reading is (also not required but suggested): • Wegner, Daniel M. The illusion of conscious will. MIT press, 2002.

  3. CourseObjectives • Criticallyevaluatehistoricalnotionsofcognitionandconsciousness • Put handle on thequestion „Are weconscious?“ • Discussvarietesofconsciousnessandfree will • Becomefamilarwithneurologicalevidenceaboutthe „determinism“ ofconsciousdecisions • Gettoknow alternative notionsofself (egthe Buddhist notion)

  4. Day 1 • The Cartesian Theater: dualismaboutthemind • Usefuldistinctions: phenomenalandaccessconsciousness, qualia, will • Causalpowersof „beinglike“: the Mary thoughtexperiment • Wegner andhisarguments on conscious will being an „illusion“ • Evidenceforthedissociationof will andaction

  5. Day 2 • „Readiness potential“, KornhuberandLibet • Libet's "neuronal adequacy" experiment • Libet’s “volitional” experiment • Timing in the mind: the “phi” phenomenon

  6. Day 3 • Perceptionandconsciouness. The blind spot • Change blindness, inattentionalblindness • Visual representationsand „filling in“ • Externalismaboutthemindanditsvarieties • Multiple personalities, the Sperry experiment • Different theoriesaboutsplitminds

  7. Day 4 • Hume andDennett: the „bundletheory“ • Narrative identityand multiple draftstheory • The biologicalfunctionofconsciousness, ifany • NCC (neuralcorrelatesofconsciousness), correlationandcausality • The bindingproblem • Consciousnessandmeditation. Non-European notionsofconsciousness.

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