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May 26, 2024
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College Bulletin 2014-2015 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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PHIL 059. Humans, Animals, and Robots
The philosophical tradition of phenomenology takes lived experience as its starting point and insists upon the embodied nature of human minds. Once we take our embodiment seriously, how different are we from other animals? And what would it take for computer circuits to replicate something like human sentience? What can phenomenological descriptions of lived experience add to our understanding of who we are? This course will take a phenomenological perspective on what it is to be human and explore questions about embodiment, consciousness, rationality, affect, and identity, as well as the boundaries between the human and other forms of sentience.
Prerequisite: First- and second-year students must complete one course in PHIL 001 -PHIL 010 , or PHIL 012 , before enrolling in this course.
1 credit.
Not offered 2014-2015.
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