Lecture 04 - Introduction to Plato's Phaedo; Arguments for the Existence of the Soul, Part II. After a brief introduction to Plato's Phaedo, more arguments are offered in this lecture in defense of the existence of an immaterial soul. The emphasis here is on the fact that we need to believe in the existence of a soul
in order to explain the claim that we possess free will. This is an argument dualists use as an objection to the physicalists: since no merely physical entity could have free will, there must be more to us than just being a physical object.
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Lecture 04 - Introduction to Plato's Phaedo; Arguments for the Existence of the Soul, Part II
Time
Lecture Chapters
[00:00:00]
1. Introduction to Plato's "Phaedo"
[00:08:27]
2. Creativity and Reason in Machines
[00:13:43]
3. Feelings in Machines, from Marvin to Hal
[00:20:34]
4. "Qualia" in Emotion and Consciousness: The Dualist's Defense and Its Weakness
[00:42:20]
5. Free Will as a Defense of the Soul and Conclusion