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The mind-body problem today sometimes seems to present a forced choice between an idea no-one really believes (dualism) and an idea no-one really understands (physicalism). Despite the many variants of these two positions, fundamental unclarities in the underlying assumptions remain.

Across a series of two lectures on the topic, Professor Tim Crane argues that in order to move forward with our understanding of the mind and its place in nature, these assumptions must be deconstructed. In the first lecture, Professor Crane examines the current debate over dualism, as posed by the persistence of David Chalmers’s ‘zombie’ hypothesis, and argues that even if coherent, this hypothesis should play no role in the metaphysics of the mind.

The mind-body problem today sometimes seems to present a forced choice between an idea no-one really believes (dualism) and an idea no-one really understands (physicalism). Despite the many variants of these two positions, fundamental unclarities in the underlying assumptions remain. Across a series of two lectures on the topic, Professor Tim Crane argues that in order to move forward with our understanding of the mind and its place in nature, these assumptions must be deconstructed.

In the first lecture, Professor Crane examines the current debate over dualism, as posed by the persistence of David Chalmers’s ‘zombie’ hypothesis, and argues that even if coherent, this hypothesis should play no role in the metaphysics of the mind.

The mind-body problem today sometimes seems to present a forced choice between an idea no-one really believes (dualism) and an idea no-one really understands (physicalism). Despite the many variants of these two positions, fundamental unclarities in the underlying assumptions remain. In a series of two lectures on the topic, Professor Crane argues that in order to move forward with our understanding of the mind and its place in nature, these assumptions must be deconstructed.

The second lecture examines the current debate about physicalism, in particular recent attempts to construe physicalism in terms of notions like grounding.

The mind-body problem today sometimes seems to present a forced choice between an idea no-one really believes (dualism) and an idea no-one really understands (physicalism). Despite the many variants of these two positions, fundamental unclarities in the underlying assumptions remain. In a series of two lectures on the topic, Professor Crane argues that in order to move forward with our understanding of the mind and its place in nature, these assumptions must be deconstructed.

The second lecture examines the current debate about physicalism, in particular recent attempts to construe physicalism in terms of notions like grounding.

For 2023 the IYPA invited young people from around the world to think about the theme of belonging.

Belonging seems to constitute a crucial aspect of our lives and has been related to a fundamental need for human interdependence or to be accepted as a valuable member of a group, for example, in terms of family, friends, colleagues, nation-states, the world, and so on. The topic of belonging becomes ever more important in the current time where people face sudden displacement because of war, poverty, and the climate crisis, or due to experiences of exclusion, or racism, gender and sexual discrimination, for example.

MAP Dublin Chapter presented this video at the recent Irish Young Philosophy and Youth on Trust Awards 24 and 25 May 2022.

The UCD Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) Dublin chapter asks “What is Fairness”.

Philosophy Christopher Cowley hosts UCD School of Philosophy Open Day talk, November 2020

President Michael D. Higgins presented the Young Philosopher Awards, at a ceremony in UCD. The Awards were launched by President Higgins in November 2017, in response to the President’s calls—in the context of the President of Ireland Ethics Initiative—for greater reflection and debate about the type of skills citizens need in our rapidly changing society.

Professor James O‘Shea (University College Dublin) gives a talk on the work of Wilfrid Sellars and his account of conceptual change (theory change in science), abstract objects, the myth of the Given, John McDowell‘s ”Mind and World”, and the relation between the manifest image of ordinary common sense objects & the scientific image of mindless meaningless particles.

This talk was given at the College de France | Published on 4 Apr 2014

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