Course Description
What is the human mind? What is emotion? What is consciousness? What is the relation between thought and emotion? How is perception connected with thought? This course will raise these, or similar, questions and explore some answers that philosophers propose together with the arguments that they make for those answers.
Athena Title
Philosophical Psychology
Prerequisite
PHIL 2010 or PHIL 2010H or PHIL 2010E or PHIL 2020 or PHIL 2020H or PHIL 2020E or PHIL 2030 or PHIL 2030H or PHIL 2030E or PSYC 1101 or PSYC 1030H or PSYC 1101E or permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
Students will read original philosophical works. They will be expected to locate arguments in these texts, to present the arguments (as arguments rather than as assertions or summaries), to engage these arguments by posing and evaluating critical counter arguments. Students will become familiar with the philosophical issues that are central to the course and with a variety of different ways philosophers have addressed each issue.
Topical Outline
1. Mind-Body Problem 2. Thought 3. Emotion 4. Consciousness 5. Self-Consciousness 6. Mental Causation
Syllabus