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Philosophy & Neuroethics
Lectures
Week 1
Week 2
Vocabulary
Template
Week
Self Study Questions
, 2
Lectures
Week 1
Introduction + The Mind-Body-Problem
Literature
- Clark & Chalmers: The Extended Mind
- Minds, brains & computers
Neuroscientific research = this can create social legal and ethical issues
& new - Cognitive, affective bodily enhancement
neural-technologies - Artificial intelligence and potential consciousness
- Predictions based on machine learning
- Making important decisions in medicine
- Deep learning
- Algorithms in social media, epistemic bubbles
- Psychiatric context
- Diagnostic neuroimaging vs self-report
How should science proceed?
Philosophy Aim: analysis and conceptual clarification
- What are the background assumptions we make? How do we define
our terms? Outline implications of certain positions. Ethical & social
contexts
Explanandum =
Explanans =
- Science and philosophy work together & influence each other.
- Ex. New frameworks create development of scientific research
Philosophy of the mind = The relationship between the mind, brain & body
Mind-body problem:
- Premises: we have a mind (feel things, think things), we have a body
(chemicals, body parts)
- Question: how do they relate?
- Mind has characteristics that the body does not (& other way around)
- Ex. consciousness phenomenal experience which objects don't
have. How does the mind have this & the body doesnt?
- How does the mind exist in the world & how do we explain the mind?
→ Mind-Matter problem!
- Differences between the mind and the brain? Are they separate or the
same?
- Mind body (non brain based), how are they implemented?
- Mind environment: where does the mind end?
Substance Dualism
Descartes: 1. Humans consists of two things: Immaterial soul (mind) & Material
Philosophy & Neuroethics
Lectures
Week 1
Week 2
Vocabulary
Template
Week
Self Study Questions
, 2
Lectures
Week 1
Introduction + The Mind-Body-Problem
Literature
- Clark & Chalmers: The Extended Mind
- Minds, brains & computers
Neuroscientific research = this can create social legal and ethical issues
& new - Cognitive, affective bodily enhancement
neural-technologies - Artificial intelligence and potential consciousness
- Predictions based on machine learning
- Making important decisions in medicine
- Deep learning
- Algorithms in social media, epistemic bubbles
- Psychiatric context
- Diagnostic neuroimaging vs self-report
How should science proceed?
Philosophy Aim: analysis and conceptual clarification
- What are the background assumptions we make? How do we define
our terms? Outline implications of certain positions. Ethical & social
contexts
Explanandum =
Explanans =
- Science and philosophy work together & influence each other.
- Ex. New frameworks create development of scientific research
Philosophy of the mind = The relationship between the mind, brain & body
Mind-body problem:
- Premises: we have a mind (feel things, think things), we have a body
(chemicals, body parts)
- Question: how do they relate?
- Mind has characteristics that the body does not (& other way around)
- Ex. consciousness phenomenal experience which objects don't
have. How does the mind have this & the body doesnt?
- How does the mind exist in the world & how do we explain the mind?
→ Mind-Matter problem!
- Differences between the mind and the brain? Are they separate or the
same?
- Mind body (non brain based), how are they implemented?
- Mind environment: where does the mind end?
Substance Dualism
Descartes: 1. Humans consists of two things: Immaterial soul (mind) & Material
