FYSP 103 - Bridging the Body/Mind Divide

Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 4 Hours
Attribute: 4 HU, WR

Before René Descartes arrived at his famous statement, “I think therefore I am,” he systematically cut himself off from all his embodied senses of sight, smell, sound, touch, and taste. This allowed him “to be” without “being-in-the-world.” This course will team philosophical inquiry (thinking and writing) with somatic exercises (developing our bodily knowledge) in order to ask: How can we learn from our bodies? and, How do we learn with our bodies? Enrollment Limit: 14.
Instructor: A. Cooper Albright