Great courses (DVD). Philosophy & intellectual history

Directed by The Great Courses

Lecturer: Professor Patrick Grim, Stony Brook Univeristy

How is it that our very physical brain creates the very subjective experience we call reality? That is the mind-body problem. In Mind-Body Philosophy, award-winning Professor Patrick Grim of SUNY Stony Brook leads an exhilarating tour through millennia of philosophy and science addressing one of life's greatest conundrums: What is consciousness and how does it arise?

Rated TVPG

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Episode 1

Mind, Body, and Questions of Consciousness

Episode 2

Mind and Body in Greek Philosophy

Episode 3

Eastern Perspectives on Mind and Body

Episode 4

Using the Body to Shape the Mind

Episode 5

History of the Soul

Episode 6

How Descartes Divided Mental from Physical

Episode 7

Mistakes about Our Own Consciousness

Episode 8

Strange Cases of Consciousness

Episode 9

Altered States of Consciousness

Episode 10

Memory, Mind, and Brain

Episode 11

Self-Consciousness and the Self

Episode 12

Rival Psychologies of the Mind

Episode 13

The Enigma of Free Will

Episode 14

Emotions

Episode 15

Could a Machine Be Conscious?

Episode 16

Computational Approaches to the Mind

Episode 17

A Guided Tour of the Brain

Episode 18

Thinking Body and Extended Mind

Episode 19

Francis Crick and Binding in the Brain

Episode 20

Clues on Consciousness from Anesthesiology

Episode 21

Of Mind, Materialism, and Zombies

Episode 22

Thought Experiments against Materialism

Episode 23

Consciousness and the Explanatory Gap

Episode 24

A Philosophical Science of Consciousness?