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Filosofia e Neurociências

Filosofia e Neurociências

Code	15579
Year	3
Semester	S2
ECTS Credits	6
Workload	OT(15H)/TP(45H)
Scientific area	Philosophy
Entry requirements	.
Learning outcomes	This course aims to give the student theoretical knowledge in the field of philosophy of mind studies and practical ability to handle its main concepts and theoretical notions. At the end of the UC, the student should have developed skills and competences: a) Basic - Identify and distinguish the main theoretical proposals in the field of philosophy of mind studies. b) Operational - Recognize and know how to use concepts and notions of philosophy of mind in the context of the proposal in which they are theoretically inserted. c) Transversal - Develop critical attention and self-reflective capacity on the perspective of first-person experience.
Syllabus	1. The mind/body problem in the philosophical tradition 2. The mind/body problem in contemporary philosophy of mind 3. The problem of consciousness and qualia 4. The AI problem 5. Links between philosophy of mind, neuroscience and neurophenomenology 6. Mind, AI and neuroethics 7. Topics in neuroethics
Main Bibliography	Chalmers, D. 1996. The Conscious Mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Churchland, Patricia, 1986. Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind-Brain. MA: The MIT Press. Damasio, A. 1999. The Feeling of What Happens. O Sentimento de SI - O corpo, a emoção e a neurobiologia da consciência. Lisboa: P. Europa-América. Fodor, J. 1983. The Modularity of Mind. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Gennaro, R. 2012. The Consciousness Paradox. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Guttenplan, S (Ed.) 1994. A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind. Oxford and Malden MA: Blackwell Publishers. Nagel, T. 1974. “What is it like to be a bat?” Philosophical Review, 83: 435–456. Varela, F. and Maturana, H. 1980. Cognition and Autopoiesis. Dordrecht: D. Reidel. Varela, F. 1995. “Neurophenomenology: A methodological remedy for the hard problem.” Journal of Consciousness Studies, 3: 330–49.
Language	Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.