| Course ID: | PHIL(PSYC) 3400. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Philosophical Psychology |
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. |
| Oasis 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 semester every odd-numbered year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| 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 |