Postgraduate Module Descriptor


PHLM005: Mind and World

This module descriptor refers to the 2016/7 academic year.

Overview

NQF Level7
Credits30 ECTS Value15
Term(s) and duration

This module ran during term 2 (11 weeks)

Academic staff

Professor Giovanna Colombetti (Convenor)

Pre-requisites

None

Co-requisites

None

Available via distance learning

No

This module looks at the relation between the mind and the world. It seems uncontroversial that the world influences the mind, and vice versa. But are the mind and the world entirely separate? Or can the mind include at least some parts of the world? Some philosophers for example claim that the mind is “extended” into the world. What does this mean? Also, what is the relationship between subjective lived experience and the world? Can parts of the world come to be experienced as part of one’s mind? If so, how?

Module created

01/11/2012

Last revised

30/05/2016