Exploring Metaphysics

Professor David Kyle Johnson

ISBN 10: 1629970638 ISBN 13: 9781629970639

Publisher: The Great Courses The Teaching Company, 2014

Synopsis

24 Lectures 1 How to Explore Metaphysics 2 The Mystery of the Mind and the Soul 3 Identity Theory—Token and Type 4 Functionalism and Artificial Intelligence 5 Alternative Theories of Mind 6 The Problem of Personal Identity 7 Mind, Memory, and Psychological Continuity 8 Same Body, Same Brain, and Closest Continuer 9 The No-Self Theory and Time Worms 10 The Nature of Truth and Time 11 Libertarian Free Will 12 Compatibilistic Freedom 13 Causation, Possible Worlds, and Propositions 14 God—Definition and Paradox 15 God—The Argument from Existence 16 God—The Argument from Cause 17 God—The Argument from Design 18 From Spinning Buckets to Special Relativity 19 From General Relativity to Space-Time 20 Black Holes, Wormholes, and Time Travel 21 Quantum Mechanics and Wave-Particle Duality 22 Quantum Mechanics, Spin, and Spooky Action 23 Quantum Mechanics, God, and the Multiverse 24 Do We Live in a Computer Simulation?

Edition details

• Publisher: The Great Courses The Teaching Company
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1629970638
• ISBN 13: 9781629970639
• Binding: Audio CD