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Platonic Tradicion in the Middle Ages

Class at Faculty of Arts |
AFSV00055

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The Character of Consciousness

James Hill and Jakub Mihálik

Time: Thursday 15.50-17.25

Place: Room 225V in the Philosophy Faculty

The aim of this course is to offer a critical insight into some of the problems of consciousness as they are discussed in contemporary philosophy of mind. Our course will be centered around David Chalmers's 2010 book The

Character of Consciousness and we will try to understand and philosophically evaluate Chalmers's nonreductive view of consciousness which can be seen as a critical reaction to various kinds of reductionism that have been prevalent in the 20th century English-language philosophy of mind. While we will spend some time inspecting the motivations of the nonreductive approach, we will also look into some of the positive alternatives to materialism, such as property dualism, dual-aspect monism and panpsychism and try to decide whether any of these deserve to be taken seriously.