Philosophy Gets Schooled

Part 1: Introduction to metaphysics of mind, dualism and property dualism.  Chalmers's zombies!  Part 2 (starts 31min 05 sec): Jackson's Mary argument.  Epiphenomenalism, introspection, natural selection.  Evaluation.  Ben Jones, DaN McKee and Mabel Rowe chat with Simon Kirchin.  (Music by Alex Grohl.)

Part 1: Intro to metaphysics of mind, physicalism, mind-brain type identity theory - explanation, arguments for and against.  Part 2 (starts 35 min 15 sec): eliminative materialism - explanation, arguments for and against.  Michael Lacewing, Sally Latham and Adrian Samuel chat with Simon Kirchin.  (Music by Alex Grohl.)

Part 1: Intro to metaphysics of mind, dualism and substance dualism.  Descartes' Indivisibility Argument.  Part 2 (starts: 21min40sec): Descartes' Conceivability Argument, criticisms (possibility of other minds, interaction, and category errors).  Ben Jones, DaN McKee and Mabel Rowe chat with Simon Kirchin.  (Music by Alex Grohl.)  [AND APOLOGIES - SK's mic goes funny right at the end.  Hope it doesn't spoil your enjoyment!]

Part 1: intro to metaphysics of mind and physicalism, 'hard' & 'soft' behaviourism.  Part 2 (starts 29min50sec): dualism against behaviourism, Putnam's super-Spartans, circularity and multiple realisability, asymmetry between self-knowledge and knowledge of others, and evaluations.  Michael Lacewing, Sally Latham and Adrian Samuel talk with Simon Kirchin.  (Music by Alex Grohl.)

Part 1: intro to metaphysics of mind, functionalism, advantages. Part 2 (starts: 24min55sec): inverted qualia, no qualia, Mary argument, zombies, Turing/Chinese room/AI and evaluation of functionalism.  Sally Latham, Mabel Rowe and Adrian Samuel chat with Simon Kirchin (Kent/Leeds).  (Music by Alex Grohl.)