Thought and Experience - Audio
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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.
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
Issues facing contemporary philosophy of mind
A detailed discussion about various approaches to contemporary philosophy of mind focusing on the computational view
Ancient philosophers' views on emotions
A detailed discussion with Professor Richard Sorabji about the Stoics views of emotions in contrast to the Aristotelians views
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...
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 psychol...
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 l...
Naturalistic theories of mental content
A detailed discussion with Professor David Papineau about 'success semantics', his preferred naturalistic theory of mental content
Defining Creativity
A detailed definition of creativity given by Professor Margaret Boden including her understanding of creativity and the role of computational psycholo...
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