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How Does the Brain Produce the Mind?
Lecture no. 23 from the course: The Big Questions of Philosophy
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Taught by Professor David K. Johnson | 33 min
The next three lectures address the big question: What is the nature of the mind? Start with the celebrated “hard problem” of consciousness: How does the brain produce the mind? Investigate two possible answers and explore why many philosophers consider both to be problematic....
36 Lectures
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How Do We Do Philosophy?
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Why Should We Trust Reason?
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How Do We Reason Carefully?
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How Do We Find the Best Explanation?
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What Is Truth?
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of 30 min
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Is Knowledge Possible?
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What Is the Best Way to Gain Knowledge?
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of 32 min
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Do We Know What Knowledge Is?
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When Can We Trust Testimony?
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Can Mystical Experience Justify Belief?
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Is Faith Ever Rational?
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Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
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What Is God Like?
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How Could God Allow Moral Evil?
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Why Would God Cause Natural Evil?
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Are Freedom and Foreknowledge Compatible?
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Do Our Souls Make Us Free?
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What Does It Mean to Be Free?
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What Preserves Personal Identity?
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Are Persons Mere Minds?
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Are Persons Just Bodies?
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Are You Really You?
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How Does the Brain Produce the Mind?
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What Do Minds Do, If Anything?
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Could Machines Think?
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Does God Define the Good?
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Does Happiness Define the Good?
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Does Reason Define the Good?
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How Ought We to Live?
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Why Bother Being Good?
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Should Government Exist?
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What Justifies a Government?
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How Big Should Government Be?
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What Are the Limits of Liberty?
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What Makes a Society Fair or Just?
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What Is the Meaning of Life?
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