Philosophy is like sex: sure you can get some interesting results, but that's not why we do it. Going one step beyond…why do you FEEL pain or pleasure? Do plants have emotions? How is possible that some people do not understand other’s emotions? Emotions seem to be everywhere, giving meaning to all events of our lives. They are the backbone of social activities as well as they drive the cognitive processes of several living entities. Several animals, including humans, have emotions but…what about machines?...Do machine can have emotions?
This course will help you to understand and to identify most important philosophical ideas and debates about emotions, as well as it will provide you a rich source of data about neurological, psychological or anthropological analysis of emotions.
In a nutshell: this is a course to feel and think about.
Emotions: a Philosophical Introduction
proposé par
Université autonome de Barcelone
Programme du cours : ce que vous apprendrez dans ce cours
Semaine
11 heure pour terminer
Welcome!
Welcome to this amazing course on the nature of emotions. You’ll see that emotions are everywhere. They are the true meaning of our lives and guide us all throughout our daily actions. There is a lot to discuss, to think about, to discover about them! Six weeks for a Course, one Course for new Knowledge!
1 vidéo (Total 4 min), 5 lectures
1 vidéo
5 lectures
Welcome, Learners!10 min
Course format10 min
Syllabus10 min
Evaluation10 min
Certification10 min
1 heure pour terminer
Where do emotions come from?
At the very beginning of this course we will look at the basic definitions and concepts related to the emotional events. At the same time we will introduce basic philosophical ideas in order to make possible the understanding of the nature of emotional values.
5 vidéos (Total 46 min), 1 lecture, 2 quiz
5 vidéos
The ABC of emotional processes6 min
Why do emotions exist and how many living entities have emotions?11 min
How did emotions evolve?8 min
Where do emotions happen?9 min
1 lecture
Week 1 Overview10 min
2 exercices pour s'entraîner
L1A Exam - Lessons/Videos20 min
L1B Exam - Reading and External Video8 min
Semaine
21 heure pour terminer
How many emotions do exist?
After the clarification about the different aspects we can find in emotional analysis, we will look at the number and type of different emotions. There are several theories about their number, and all of them also contain a way to understand how emotions emerged and evolved. The debate will be fun!
5 vidéos (Total 35 min), 1 lecture, 2 quiz
5 vidéos
A taxonomy of emotions7 min
The geography of emotions: Guilt vs Shame cultures8 min
Aware: attention, data selection and the aesthetical feeling of ahness6 min
L2.5. No pain, no gain? The modulatory nature of emotions7 min
1 lecture
Week 2 Overview10 min
2 exercices pour s'entraîner
L2A Exam - Lessons/Videos20 min
L2B Exam - Reading and External Video8 min
Semaine
31 heure pour terminer
What does a plant feel?
Not only humans do have emotions. Other mammals have also them. And even insects. But do plants have emotions? Even bacteria, a so small entity, have also these emotional mechanisms. An evolutionary reconstruction will understand to understand how emotions are spread among living entities.
5 vidéos (Total 37 min), 1 lecture, 2 quiz
5 vidéos
Animal emotion8 min
The qualia problem10 min
Conscious vs Unconscious emotions6 min
Ghost and chronic emotions6 min
1 lecture
Week 3 Overview10 min
2 exercices pour s'entraîner
L3A Exam - Lessons/Videos20 min
L3B Exam - Reading and External Video8 min
Semaine
41 heure pour terminer
A neuroanthropological approach to emotions: from neurons to societies
Emotions regulate several key aspects of our life. But they are fundamental for social cohesion. Cooperation or altruism are fundamental aspects of human socialization that must be understood from an emotional perspective. Neurons will show the path to the creation of societies.
5 vidéos (Total 49 min), 1 lecture, 2 quiz
5 vidéos
Emotions without brains?9 min
Emotions, empathy and ethics: neuroethical challenges7 min
The moral control of the emotional mind11 min
The social management of emotions8 min
1 lecture
Week 4 Overview10 min
2 exercices pour s'entraîner
L4A Exam - Lessons/Videos20 min
L4B Exam - Reading and External Video8 min
Semaine
51 heure pour terminer
The philosophies on emotions
There are plenty of historical debates on the nature and role of emotions into philosophical spaces. Usually, this approach is made studying at Western thinkers, but we will also include Eastern ones. Therefore, we will analyse how most important philosophical traditions have understood and explain the role of emotions. [Spoiler: they always said they were BAD!].
5 vidéos (Total 43 min), 1 lecture, 2 quiz
5 vidéos
The classic Eastern debates on the nature of emotions9 min
The methodological debates on emotions across history9 min
The transdisciplinarity of emotional studies: an epistemological gap6 min
Damasio’s success and Descartes’s error, the new fashion (or trend?)6 min
1 lecture
Week 5 Overview10 min
2 exercices pour s'entraîner
L5A Exam - Lessons/Videos20 min
L5B Exam - Reading and External Video8 min
Semaine
64 heures pour terminer
21st Century & emotions: affective computing and sociable robots
At the end of this course we will look on how emotions are displayed into new technological frameworks: social networks, mass media,…but we will think about how emotions are implemented into robots or computers. A new technological era come to us, with the same necessities of all previous ones: emotional. Machines will be emotional, if we want they be really smart, autonomous, and efficient.
5 vidéos (Total 38 min), 1 lecture, 3 quiz
5 vidéos
Neural Nets6 min
Emotional Architectures6 min
Affective computing6 min
Social robotics and HRI8 min
Emotional machines and singularity?9 min
1 lecture
Week 6 Overview10 min
3 exercices pour s'entraîner
L6A Exam - Lessons/Videos20 min
L6B Exam - Reading and External Video8 min
Get the distinction30 min
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Love this course. Highly recommend to anyone who wants to understand emotions. Jordi, I can't wait to do your next course.
excellent class, truly unique and mind expanding, do it again!
Enseignant
Jordi Vallverdú
Professor Dr.Philosophy Department
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Who is the course for?
This course is for all of you who would like to know more about Emotions, about how we feel.
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No. The certificate shows that the student has passed the course, but it is not an official qualification of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
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