THE PHILOSOPHY CLASS

A Second Life philosophy project

Showing posts with label Thomas Hobbes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thomas Hobbes. Show all posts
Thursday, February 9, 2012

381: The Brain, determinism and Free Will

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In The Critique of Pure Reason (first published in 1781), the German philosopher Immanuel Kant maintained that causation was one of the fu...
Wednesday, October 12, 2011

352: The Brain and the Identity Theory 1

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Very roughly, the identity theory asserts that the mind is the brain.More precisely, it claims that mental states are physical states of the...
Friday, July 15, 2011

339: The materialist Brain 5

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In fact it is an amazing observation, that a religion, a system of beliefs, in this case christianity, has been able to block the developmen...
Wednesday, June 29, 2011

338: The materialist Brain 4

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After our sidetrack on the question "What is matter?", let's return to our main road, that of investigating materialism itself...
Sunday, March 20, 2011

311: The Brain and Social Emotions

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In the last two lectures I have drawn your attention to the fact that the subject of our current project is not just an interesting philosop...
Friday, February 11, 2011

304: The Brain and Free Will

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It is often said that man has a " free will " because we have choices. This is not true. Every organism is constantly making choic...
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I give a lecture twice a week in my Philosophy Class, located in Wainscot in Second Life. (see http://www.secondlife.come and get a free account)
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