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Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
INR 2397yesCoursera

The Syllabus

Readings
  • Introduction: Know Thyself @ Wireless Philosophy
  • About this course
  • Course assessments and exercises
  • Optional companion book

Videos
  • The Gadfly
  • Is anyone wiser than Socrates?
  • I know that I know (almost) nothing
  • Meditative moment
  • Is an unexamined life worth living?
  • "Not to be lived"
  • What is knowledge good for?
  • Summary
Readings
  • Existentialist Comics - The "Apology"
  • Know Thyself, Chapter One
  • Interesting videos and podcasts
  • Plato's Apology - full text
  • 'Socrates' by Professor Deborah Nails
  • 'The Delphic Oracle: A Multidisciplinary Defense of the Gaseous Vent Theory' By Spiller et al
Practice Exercises
  • Initial thoughts
  • Practice Quiz 1: The Oracle
  • Practice Quiz 2: knowledge, wisdom and ignorance
  • Knowledge and ignorance
  • Do you agree?
  • Module One Quiz: 5 questions assessed
  • Chapter One Quiz

Videos
  • Descartes
  • What can be called into doubt?
  • Are you dreaming now?
  • I think, therefore I am
  • Concerning God
  • The physical and the mental
  • Divisibility of mind and body
  • Meditative moment
  • Dualism
Readings
  • Know Thyself, Chapter Two
  • Interesting videos and podcasts
  • Brief essay on Descartes' argument for dualism
  • Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
  • Correspondence between Descartes and Princess Elisabeth
  • Prof. Christia Mercer on Descartes' debt to Teresa of Avila
  • Rationalism vs Empiricism
Practice Exercises
  • Initial thoughts
  • Practice Quiz 1
  • Practice Quiz 2
  • Evaluate Descartes' argument
  • Evaluate the arguments again
  • Module Two Quiz: 5 questions assessed

Videos
  • Concept of Mind
  • Ghost in the machine
  • Stupid is, as stupid does
  • Embodied cognition
  • Priviledged access
  • Locked in
  • The materialist strikes back
  • Meditative moment
Readings
  • Know Thyself, chapter three
  • Interesting videos and podcasts
  • On embodied cognition
  • Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind
  • Gilbert Ryle at the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy
  • Locked-In Syndrome
  • Another MOOC: more about embodied cognition
Practice Exercises
  • Initial thoughts
  • Practice quiz
  • More know-how intelligence
  • Examples of failed phosphorescence or introspection/infallibility
  • Module Three Quiz: 5 questions assessed

Videos
  • Human Nature
  • Investigating human nature
  • How best to live?
  • Theory of human emotions
  • Non-basic emotions
  • Second nature
  • Meditative moment
Readings
  • Existentialist Comics - Sartre
  • Human nature: Six things we all do (New Scientist)
  • Human nature matters (Aeon)
  • Some interesting videos and podcasts
  • Read more about Confucius, Mencius, and Xunzi (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
  • Read more about Sartre, Existentialism, and Nothingness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
  • Steve Darwall: Empathy, Sympathy, Care
  • More on basic emotions
Practice Exercises
  • Initial thoughts
  • Your rituals
  • Human nature as an excuse
  • Part of human nature?
  • Module Four Quiz: 5 questions assessed

Readings
  • Share what you've learned by editing the Wikipedia entry on self-knowledge!
  • A brief How-To
  • The Unconscious
  • Losing Oneself

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