Thought and Experience - Audio

This album contains fascinating and engrossing interviews with several leading philosophers concerning, primarily, the exploration of four topics: emotion; thought and language; imagination and creativity; consciousness. The interviews contain lively debates from differing philosophical viewpoints, discussions about theoretical thought experiments and the examination of theories developed by philosophers such as Aristotle, Decartes, Galileo, and Hume as well as predictions regarding the future of philosophy. This material forms part of the course AA308 Thought and experience.

Thought and Experience

A short introduction to this album

03-08
00:48

Origins of the modern concept of mind

A detailed discussion about the Aristotelian concept of the soul and the Cartesian concept of the mind by Susan James

02-26
28:30

Issues facing contemporary philosophy of mind

A detailed discussion about various approaches to contemporary philosophy of mind focusing on the computational view

02-26
29:55

Ancient philosophers' views on emotions

A detailed discussion with Professor Richard Sorabji about the Stoics views of emotions in contrast to the Aristotelians views

02-26
30:29

A contemporary study of emotions

An interview with Peter Goldie focusing on how the study of emotions can progress, the nature of emotions, how biology and culture can shape emotional capacity and the relationship between emotion and rationality.

02-26
22:33

The Gricean Program

A detailed discussion by Dr Barry Smith about the Gricean Program and the meaning of linguistic expression in terms of the content of people’s psychological states, their beliefs and intentions

02-26
13:11

Thought experiments in philosophy

A detailed discussion with Dr Barry Smith and Professor Tim Crane about thought experiments, their implications for language and for thought and the legitimacy of their use in philosophy

02-26
20:11

Naturalistic theories of mental content

A detailed discussion with Professor David Papineau about 'success semantics', his preferred naturalistic theory of mental content

02-26
28:41

Defining Creativity

A detailed definition of creativity given by Professor Margaret Boden including her understanding of creativity and the role of computational psychology in helping to understand creativity

02-26
14:02

David Novitz's criticisms of The Creative Mind

Professor Margaret Boden responds to criticisms raised by David Noviz to her account in the first edition of her book The Creative Mind

02-26
10:12

Four “Lovelace” questions

A detailed discussion with Professor Margaret Boden about the relationship between computers and creativity in terms of four 'Lovelace' questions

02-26
11:02

The relationship between imagination and creativity

A philosophical dialogue between Mike Beaney and Berys Gaut concerning Gaut's views on imagination, his definition of creativity and his view of the relationship between creativity and imagination

02-26
24:30

The hard problem of consciousness

An interview with leading philosopher Professor David Chalmers discussing his articulation of the 'hard problem' of consciousness and his defense of a property dualist position

02-26
35:14

Consciousness Explained

An interview with leading philosopher Professor Daniel Dennett focusing on the issues surrounding intentionality and consciousness and his belief that consciousness can be scientifically explained

02-26
38:21

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