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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.
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Rating 4.1 based on 65 ratings
Length 7 weeks
Effort 3-5 hours/week
Starts Jun 26 (43 weeks ago)
Cost $49
From Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona via Coursera
Instructor Jordi Vallverdú
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Language English
Subjects Science Art & Design Humanities Social Sciences
Tags Life Sciences Biology Arts And Humanities Philosophy Psychology

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great course

Thank your for sharing your knowledge with us Such a great course!

Biologist involved with neuroscience will really find the contents delightful and a real learning enviroment Great course to learn more about emotions.

Great course.

Final week, about robots and emotions, kind of fascinating This was a great course.

excellent content, a little difficult to understand because the pronunciation in english, great course anyway!

Great course, very thought provoking.However:it is better to suggest a little background in philosophy (and the philosophy of science) as a condition to enter the course.The course doesn't focus enough on philosophical aspects - in fact, I'd say a better title for the course would be "A general introduction to emotions", since the course doesn't focus on philosophical aspects of emotions.

This is a great course!

Its a really great course, just consider that english is not his first language A Philosophical introcuction with a huge knowledge of different domains.

you will learn lot about emotions, & unlearn may things as well...!thanks.. Excelente Curso it is very easy Its a great course that explains how our environment and the language we speak effect how we feel/express the emotions and how they play a major role in our cognitive tasks and also how the states of emotion are integrated part in brains cognitive functioning.Good intro to know how techniques like reinforcement learning are used also nice article on how our brains process and store information based on the idea of convolutions.

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hard to understand

It's hard to understand what the professor is saying due to his accent.

It wood be interesting, but unfortunatly Prof. Vallverdú's English is quite hard to understand.

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very interesting

Very interesting approach to understand the Philosophical dimension of Emotions.

I've learned a lot and will share my experiences to my friends :) Very interesting course.

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highly recommend

This course is very interesting, I highly recommend it, and the professor is so cool!.

I highly recommend this course- interesting, well-paced, and fun.

Highly recommend to anyone who wants to understand emotions.

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too much

The course is interesting and you feel the teacher knows about the topic and wishes to transmit plenty of knowledges, but I would suggest a few improvements of the videos: better organisation, rehearsal of the speech before filming the class (he has a strong accent as a non native english-speaker, and not too much fluency), or maybe reading what he wants to say (as in other Coursera courses) would be better than trying to explain everything with his own spontaneous words.

The course misses the opportunity of providing the students with the formative feedback.Content-wise I missed the discussion on how emotions are being expressed in human communication (verbal or non-verbal), while the neuro-focus of the paper was a little bit too much for me.

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Rating 4.1 based on 65 ratings
Length 7 weeks
Effort 3-5 hours/week
Starts Jun 26 (43 weeks ago)
Cost $49
From Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona via Coursera
Instructor Jordi Vallverdú
Download Videos On all desktop and mobile devices
Language English
Subjects Science Art & Design Humanities Social Sciences
Tags Life Sciences Biology Arts And Humanities Philosophy Psychology

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