How is it that our brain creates all the subjective experiences of our lives every single day – the experiences we call reality? That is the mind-body problem. In Mind-Body Philosophy, Professor Patrick Grim of the State University of New York at Stony Brook leads an intellectually exhilarating tour through millennia of philosophy and science addressing one of life’s greatest conundrums. But you won’t just be a spectator as Dr. Grim engages and encourages each of us to come to our own conclusions. Is the mind part of the body? Or could the body be part of the mind? And if they are separate, what is the mechanism for interaction? This course poses these challenging questions, and more, for philosophers and scientists of all levels.

In this course you’ll learn about the many ways in which philosophy, mathematics, psychology, and cutting-edge neuroscience have weighed in on the mind-body problem, all to varying degrees of success. You’ll learn how computers and artificial intelligence have challenged our notions of the mind and consciousness and what scientists have learned from our dreams, hallucinations, and experiences under anesthesia. And you’ll enjoy the fascinating, creative thought experiments that address knowledge, perception, and consciousness.

What is the answer to the mind-body problem? No one knows…yet. But in Mind-Body Philosophy, Dr. Grim suggests a new method of inquiry that could possibly lead to a solution: a philosophical science of consciousness combining the best that philosophy and science have to offer. But even without an answer, Dr. Grim says, this passionate pursuit of truth is a crucially important enterprise in itself.

Reviews

Very well done series of lectures. Grim covers numerous philosophers and scientists, including: the pre-Socratic philosophers, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Philo, Augustine, Aquinas, Hume, Kant, Locke, James, Freud, Jung, Minsky, and many others. On the other hand, he didn’t mention the work of Samuel Alexander, Eric Berne, or Dewey B. Larson–the professor should look their theories and might get some additional insight himself. He does describe idealism, materialism, and dualism. It’s true that materialism is the current rage, but I think that a form of scientific dualism, describing the physical and non-physical realms, will eventually supersede materialism; but the professor rightly points out the interface problem between the two realms. Although the professor discussed various theories of the soul (and even discussed the Torah and Moses), he didn’t mention any work in parapsychology. The US military has made heavy use of “remote viewing” to “see” targets far away in space and time; this seems to confirm that there is, in fact, a non-physical component to consciousness. Larson, in his work Beyond Space and Time, answers many of the professor’s questions….

About the Author

Dr. Patrick Grim is Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

He graduated with highest honors in anthropology and philosophy from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He was named a Fulbright Fellow to the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, from which he earned his B.Phil. He earned his Ph.D. from Boston University.

Professor Grim is the recipient of several honors and awards. In addition to being named SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor, Dr. Grim has been awarded the President and Chancellor’s awards for excellence in teaching and was elected to the Academy of Teachers and Scholars. The Weinberg Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan in 2006, Professor Grim has also held visiting fellowships at the Center for Complex Systems at Michigan and at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh.

Professor Grim, author of The Incomplete Universe: Totality, Knowledge, and Truth; coauthor of The Philosophical Computer: Exploratory Essays in Philosophical Computer Modeling; and editor of the forthcoming Mind and Consciousness: 5 Questions, is widely published in scholarly journals. He is the founder and coeditor of 25 volumes of The Philosopher’s Annual, an anthology of the best articles published in philosophy each year.

Product details

• Full Audiobook MP3 Program
• Full PDF Guidebook Included
• Listening Length: 12 hours and 22 minutes
• Author: Patrick Grim, The Great Courses
• Narrator: Patrick Grim
• Release Date: January 06, 2017
• Publisher: The Great Courses
• Version: Original recording
• Language: English
• ASIN B01N0RBT5H

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