PHI 275 - Mind and Emotion

Instructor
Goldstein

How is consciousness (mind) related to body? Can you ever know what other people feel? Why do animals and people prefer pleasure to pain? Is pain good for the masochist? What are emotions and how do they motivate behavior? What enables us to have words in English and other public languages to specify sensations and other personal, non-public events?

Prerequisites & Notes
(Spring)