Teaching Neuroscience as a Liberal Art

This article describes a two-decade experience in teaching “Neurosciences for the Humanities: art, philosophy and the brain”. The course is a discussion about sensory physiology, knowledge and the arts. The physiology of the senses provides interesting insights into how we get knowledge of the world and its reliability. This is a major topic in the philosophical tradition, which in turn leads to other interesting and timely questions such as...