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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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Are moral standards relative to cultures and/or moral frameworks? Are there incompatible or non-comparable ways of thinking about the world that are somehow equally good? Is science getting closer to the truth? Is rationality--the notion of a good reason to believe something--relative to cultural norms? What are selves? Is there a coherent
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- linguistics and philosophy
- relativism
- moral standards
- science
- truth
- rationality
- cultural norms
- thomas kuhn
- karl popper
- gilbert harman
- judith thomson
- derek parfit
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This course provides an introduction to important philosophical questions about the mind, specifically those that are intimately connected with contemporary psychology and neuroscience. Are our concepts innate, or are they acquired by experience? (And what does it even mean to call a concept 'innate'?) Are 'mental images' pictures in the he
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- linguistics and philosophy
- brain
- philosophy
- science
- holism
- cultural object
- contemporary media
- society
- cultural assumptions
- neuroscience
- anthropology
- history
- semiotics
- cognitive sciences
- historical views
- digital images
- psychopharmacology
- mental illness
- neurotransmitters
- brain science
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This course is a seminar on creativity in art, science, and technology. We discuss how these pursuits are jointly dependent on affective as well as cognitive elements in human nature. We study feeling and imagination in relation to principles of idealization, consummation, and the aesthetic values that give meaning to science and technology
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- linguistics and philosophy
- feeling
- imagination
- creativity
- art
- science
- technology
- philosophy
- psychology
- process
- discovery
- invention
- emotion
- idealization
- consummation
- aesthetic values
- affective
- cognitive
- human nature
- literature
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