Personal Identity
October 25, 2009
What is necessary for a person to survive over time? Is it the continued existence…
Mind Tagged Episodes
The Mind and the World
June 7, 2009
What kinds of contact can the mind have with the world? Can we know how…
Skepticism
March 15, 2009
Various forms of skepticism play important roles in the history of philosophy. Do we really…
Mental Imagery
December 28, 2008
In the Early Modern period many philosophers took ideas to be mental images of the…
Philosophy and Neuroscience
September 21, 2008
Philosophers have always been concerned with the mind. What is consciousness? Representation? Emotion? Now that…
The Future of Philosophy
March 23, 2008
Ken and John discuss the future of philosophy with three rising stars in American philosophy:…
Kant
June 3, 2007
Immanuel Kant introduced the human mind as an active originator of experience rather than just…
George Berkeley
April 8, 2007
Berkeley founded and defended idealism, the doctrine that there is not a material world; reality is the…
Evolution of the Human Mind
July 11, 2006
Is the human mind a relatively inflexible program bequeathed to us by evolution, and culture…
The Mystery of Mind
January 10, 2006
Modern science tells us that the mind is just the brain working. But science cannot yet…
Descartes
August 2, 2005
The 17th Century philosopher Rene Descartes is often considered the father of modern philosophy. His Meditations are…
Consciousness
April 6, 2004
Is the conscious mind just the brain or something more? Can science explain consciousness? How…
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