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Approx. 10 hours to complete
English

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The University of Edinburgh

Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

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Week1
Week 1
10 minutes to complete

Philosophy and the Sciences Part 1

10 minutes to complete
1 reading
2 hours to complete

Stone-age minds in modern skulls: evolutionary theory and the philosophy of mind (Suilin Lavelle and Kenny Smith)

2 hours to complete
3 videos (Total 36 min), 6 readings, 1 quiz
Week2
Week 2
2 hours to complete

What is consciousness? (Mark Sprevak and David Carmel)

2 hours to complete
2 videos (Total 30 min), 7 readings, 1 quiz
Week3
Week 3
2 hours to complete

Intelligent machines and the human brain (Mark Sprevak and Peggy Series)

2 hours to complete
2 videos (Total 28 min), 8 readings, 1 quiz
Week4
Week 4
3 hours to complete

Embodied cognition (Andy Clark and Barbara Webb)

3 hours to complete
2 videos (Total 24 min), 7 readings, 2 quizzes

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