NEUROSC 142Neurophilosophy: Introduction and Assessment from Neuroscience Perspective
Neuroscience, Undergraduate · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Overview of philosophical issues and theories surrounding nature of mind and its relationship with body. Examination of case for relevance of current theoretical and experimental results in neuroscience and cognitive science to philosophy of mind. In particular, focus on variety of approaches to understanding and explaining human consciousness and current lively debate about whether scientific understanding of it is possible. Neurophilosophy is relatively new interdisciplinary subject. Study is approached as two-way flow of information, from neuroscience to philosophy and vice versa. Examination of traditional philosophical problems given input of recent neuroscience findings as well as applying philosophical problem-solving approaches to determine which scientific projects related to human consciousness are genuinely new and interesting and which have potential to yield conceptually novel answers.
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When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 2027
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Requisite: course M101A.
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NEUROSC 142
- NEUROSC M101ANeuroscience: From Molecules to Mind—Cellular and Systems Neuroscience
- CHEM 14CStructure of Organic Molecules
- LIFESCI 7CPhysiology and Human Biology
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields
- MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
- CHEM 30AOrganic Chemistry I: Structure and Reactivity
- PHYSICS 1BHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields (Honors)
- PHYSICS 5CPhysics for Life Sciences Majors: Electricity, Magnetism, and Modern Physics
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