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Contemporary Issues in Philosophy of Mind and Cognition

Contemporary Issues in Philosophy of Mind and Cognition. Instructor: Prof. Ranjan K. Panda and Prof. Rajakishore Nath, Department of Humanities and Social Science, IIT Bombay. We human beings are minded beings with several intrinsic features such as rationality, feelings, intentionality, subjectivity, freedom, etc. which make this conscious life significant. It is philosophically essential to reflect on these human features and also reflect on other creatures and things that share the world with us. They also display intelligence and consciousness in their behaviour. This course analyses how human mind is unique in comparison to chimpanzees or robots and how mind can be completely explained in scientific terms. (from nptel.ac.in)

Lecture 04 - Plato's Concept of Mind: The Parable of Cave


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Lecture 01 - Introduction
Lecture 02 - The Transcendental Consciousness
Lecture 03 - Plato's Theory of Mind
Lecture 04 - Plato's Concept of Mind: The Parable of Cave
Lecture 05 - Aristotle's Concept of Mind
Lecture 06 - The Concept of Mind in Upanishads
Lecture 07 - Dualism I
Lecture 08 - Dualism II
Lecture 09 - Dualism III
Lecture 10 - Argument against Dualism
Lecture 11 - Property Dualism
Lecture 12 - Varieties of Materialism
Lecture 13 - Mind-Body Identity Theory
Lecture 14 - Functionalism
Lecture 15 - The Different Models of Cognitive Mind
Lecture 16 - Connectionism and Folk Psychology
Lecture 17 - Representation
Lecture 18 - Representation (cont.)
Lecture 19 - Artificial Intelligence I
Lecture 20 - Artificial Intelligence II
Lecture 21 - Artificial Intelligence III
Lecture 22 - The Limits of Artificial Intelligence
Lecture 23 - The Limits of Artificial Intelligence (cont.)
Lecture 24 - Biological Naturalism
Lecture 25 - The Concept of Intentionality
Lecture 26 - The Structure of Consciousness
Lecture 27 - The Structure of Consciousness (cont.)
Lecture 28 - Phenomenal Consciousness
Lecture 29 - Phenomenal Consciousness (cont.)
Lecture 30 - Language, Representation and Meaning
Lecture 31 - Language and Meaning
Lecture 32 - Language and Mind
Lecture 33 - Language and the World
Lecture 34 - Language and the World (cont.)
Lecture 35 - Emergentism and Supervenience
Lecture 36 - Reduction and Realization
Lecture 37 - Reduction and Realization (cont.)
Lecture 38 - Cartesian Theory of Mind Revisited
Lecture 39 - Personal Identity
Lecture 40 - Personal Identity (cont.)
Lecture 41 - Creativity: Human vs Machine
Lecture 42 - Creativity: Human vs Machine (cont.)