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I didn enjoy Book 5 (Minds and Bodies) of A211 and AA308 sounds as though it covers some similar themes. Would I be advised to take the course?

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I didn enjoy Book 5 (Minds and Bodies) of A211 and AA308 sounds as though it covers some similar themes. Would I be advised to take the course?

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Both Book 5 of A211 and AA308 deal with issues broadly in the philosophy of mind. Like Book 5 of A211, Book 1 of AA308 explores different approaches to the study of the human mind (such as dualism, materialism and functionalism), but the remaining four books focus on specific topics: emotion, language and thought, imagination and creativity, and consciousness. These bring in issues in aesthetics, epistemology, metaphysics and philosophy of language as well. So AA308 is much broader than Book 5 of A211. Nevertheless, many of the themes are indeed similar, so if you didn’t like the kind of philosophy that was covered in Book 5 of A211, then you may want to think instead of taking a different course, such as AA311: Reading Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Mill.