Program Description
Event Details
Join librarian Jane for a monthly meeting to watch and discuss Great Course episodes featuring psychology, neuroscience, medicine, philosophy and more.
Registration not required although helpful to receive supplemental materials and reminders for meetings.
Episodes will be chosen from the Mind-Body Philosophy course and the Brain Myths Exploded: Lessons from Neuroscience course.
Preview of episodes:
- Is Your Brain Perfectly Designed?
- Mind, Body, and Questions of Consciousness
- How Accurate is Your Memory?
- The Enigma of Free Will
Mind-Body Philosophy:
How is it that our very physical brain creates the very subjective experience we call reality? That is the mind-body problem. In Mind-Body Philosophy, award-winning Professor Patrick Grim of SUNY Stony Brook leads an exhilarating tour through millennia of philosophy and science addressing one of life’s greatest conundrums: What is consciousness and how does it arise?
Brain Myths Exploded: Lessons from Neuroscience:
To build a more accurate understanding of the brain, you should start by shattering popular myths. Brain Myths Exploded: Lessons from Neuroscience is an eye-opening journey into the neuroscience of everyday life. Each of Dr. Indre Viskontas’s 24 lectures use a prevalent brain myth to explore topics including decision making, memory, dreams, emotions, consciousness, mental illness, and more.