ll Mind-Body Problem da Descartes alle Neurotecnologie.
Nel modulo verranno prese in esame alcune delle principali teorie del rapporto mente-corpo in età moderna e in quella contemporanea, con particolare attenzione all’impatto dei media e delle tecnologie digitali sulla percezione e sulla cognizione umana.

- J. Westphal, The Mind-Body Problem, The MIT Press, Cambridge (Massachusetts), 2016.
- A. Clark, Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action and Cognitive Extension, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008.
e due altri testi, a scelta dello studente, nella seguente lista:
- D. Chalmers, The Conscious Mind, Oxford University Press, 1996
- N. Chomsky, Language and Problems of Knowledge, The MIT Press, 1987
- A. Clark, Being There: Putting Brain, Body and World Together Again, The MIT Press, 1998
- G. Bateson, Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity, Hampton Press, 1979
- A. Damasio, Descartes’ Error. Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain, Putnam Publishing, 1994
- A. Damasio, Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain, Harcourt, 2003
- D. Dennett, Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness, The MIT Press, 2005
- M. Donald, A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness, Norton, 2001
- G. Edelman, Wider than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness, Yale Press, 2004
- J. Fodor, The Modularity of Mind: An Essay on Faculty Psychology, The MIT Press, 1983
- J. Fodor, The Mind Doesn’t Work That Way: The Scope and Limits of Computational Psychology, The MIT Press, 2000
- J.J. Gibson, The Ecological Approach To Visual Perception, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1979
- J. Kim, Mind in a Physical World, A Bradford Book, 1998.
- A. Noe, Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, Hill and Wang, 2010
- J. K. O’Regan, Why Red Doesn’t Sound Like a Bell: Understanding the Feel of Consciousness, Oxford University Press, 2011
- J. Panksepp, L. Biven, The Archaeology of Mind: Neuro-evolutionary Origins of Human Emotions, Norton, 2012
- H. Putnam, The Threefold Cord: Mind, Body, and World, Columbia University Press, 1999
- G. Ryle, The Concept of Mind, University of Chicago Press, 1949
- J. Searle, Mind. A Brief Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2004.
- F. Varela, E. Rosch, E. Thompson, The Embodied Mind, The MIT Press, 1991
J.B. Watson, Behaviorism, Taylor & Francis Inc, 1997.- N. Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings, Houghton Mifflin, 1950.