This album contains fascinating and engrossing interviews with several leading philosophers concerning, primarily, the exploration of four topics: emotion; thought and language; imagination and creativity; consciousness. The interviews contain lively debates from differing philosophical viewpoints, discussions about theoretical thought experiments and the examination of theories developed by philosophers such as Aristotle, Decartes, Galileo, and Hume as well as predictions regarding the future of philosophy. This material forms part of the course AA308 Thought and experience.

Latest episodes of the podcast Thought and Experience - Audio

• Thought and Experience
• Transcript -- Thought and Experience
• Origins of the modern concept of mind
• Transcript -- Origins of the modern concept of mind
• Issues facing contemporary philosophy of mind
• Transcript -- Issues facing contemporary philosophy of mind
• Ancient philosophers' views on emotions
• Transcript -- Ancient philosophers' views on emotions
• A contemporary study of emotions
• Transcript -- A contemporary study of emotions
• The Gricean Program
• Transcript -- The Gricean Program
• Thought experiments in philosophy
• Transcript -- Thought experiments in philosophy
• Naturalistic theories of mental content
• Transcript -- Naturalistic theories of mental content
• Defining Creativity
• Transcript -- Defining Creativity
• David Novitz's criticisms of The Creative Mind
• Transcript -- David Novitz's criticisms of The Creative Mind
• Four “Lovelace” questions
• Transcript -- Four “Lovelace” questions
• The relationship between imagination and creativity
• Transcript -- The relationship between imagination and creativity
• The hard problem of consciousness
• Transcript -- The hard problem of consciousness
• Consciousness Explained
• Transcript -- Consciousness Explained