Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Minor
As a philosophy-neuroscience-psychology (PNP) minor, you are provided with an opportunity to examine the mind from multiple perspectives. PNP is a unique interdisciplinary program dedicated to the conviction that answers to the deep questions about minds and their nature depend on the adoption of a variety of perspectives.
sample courses:
An introduction to contemporary debates in the philosophy of mind, focusing on questions such as the following: What is a mind? Is the mind just the brain? Or are minds products of brains? Could an artificial device--a computing machine or a robot--have a mind? How can mental events have physical consequences?
What's involved in seeing and hearing? This course will cover perception from the physical stimuli (light and sound) that impinge upon the sensory receptors through the higher-level percepts that the stimuli generate. Demonstrations and illusions will be used as we learn about the anatomy and physiology of the sensory systems, and study the brain mechanisms that are involved in vision and audition.
