Date	Topic	Readings	Assignment details
Week 1	Course Intro
08/26	Philosophy, Science, and the Philosophy of Science		movie shown in class
08/28	What is (Philosophy of) Cognitive Science?	Paul Thagard's SEP article on "Cognitive Science" [Mindware Preface, Chapter 1, Appendix 1]
08/29	IW requirements and strategies		Bring questions
Week 2
09/02	Physical Symbols System Hypothesis	Allen Newell & Herbert Simon (1975) "Computer science as empirical enquiry: symbols and search" [Mindware 2.1]
09/04	Chinese Room	John Searle (1980) "Minds, Brains, and Programs" [Mindware 2.2]
09/05	Brainstorm IW-1		Try out at least one of the Turing Machine simulators linked at Wikipedia and SEP.
Week 3
09/09	A peek inside the Chinese Room: Classroom visit of Professor John Searle	Review readings from last week	7:30-9:00 p.m. first Patten lecture by John Searle "Consciousness as a problem in philosophy and neurobiology"
09/11	The Turing Test	Alan Turing (1950) "Computing Machinery & Intelligence".	7:30-9:00 second Patten lecture "The Logical Structure of Human Civilization"
09/12	Workshop IW-1		*IW-1 DUE*
Week 4	Dualism, or...?
09/16	Rationalists and Empiricists	René Descartes (1641) Meditations 1 and 2 David Hume (1777) Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding sections 2 and 3 (skip secs. 1, 4, and 5) [Mindware 3]
09/18	Metaphors for Mind I: Maps and Images	Edward Tolman (1948) "Cognitive maps in rats in men") (pdf) Roger Shepard & Jacqueline Metzler (1971) "Mental rotation of three-dimensional objects" (pdf).
09/19	Knowing your audience		Research age-appropriate vocabulary lists/tools for 12 yr olds.
Week 5	Functionalism
09/23	Functionalism	Janet Levin's SEP entry on "Functionalism"
09/25	More functionalism	review SEP article
09/26	IW-2 Analogy Brainstorming		Bring your "2nd best" ideas
Week 6	Rationalism v. Empiricism Redux
09/30	Chomsky v. Skinner	Noam Chomsky (1959/1967) "Review of B.F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior") (pdf)
10/02	The Place of Folk Psychology	Daniel Dennett (1981) "True believers"
10/03	Workshop IW-2		*IW-2 DUE*
Week 7	Connectionism
10/07	Intro to connectionism	Jim Garson's SEP entry on "Connectionism" [Mindware 4]
10/09	Eliminativism	William Ramsey, Stephen Stich, & Joseph Garon (1991) "Connectionism, eliminativism, and the future of folk psychology" (pdf)
10/10	No class [fall break]		A day on, not a day off!
Week 8	Levels of Explanation
10/14	Marr's 3 levels	Marr (1980) selection from Vision )
10/16	tba
10/17	Structuring Arguments (Logic)	CA's guide to writing philosophy papers	Monty Python's argument clinic
Week 9	Evolution and Mind
10/21	Evolution and Content	Ruth Millikan (1990) "Compare and Contrast Dretske, Fodor, and Millikan on Teleosemantics"
10/23	Robots	Inman Harvey et al. (2005) "Evolutionary Robotics: A new scientific tool for studying cognition" [Mindware 6]
10/24	Workshop papers		*IW-3 DUE*
Week 10	Embodied Cognition
10/28	More robots	Rodney Brooks (1991) "Intelligence without representation"[Mindware 5,6]
10/30	Embodiment	Andy Clark (1998) "Embodiment and the Philosophy of Mind"
10/31	Brainstorm IW-4		tba
Week 11	Dynamical Systems
11/04	Dynamical Systems	Beer (2000) "Dynamical approaches to cognitive science" [Mindware 7]
11/06	NO CLASS
11/07	tba		tba
Week 12	Mind Beyond Body
11/11	Dynamical Philosophy	Timothy van Gelder (1995) "What might cognition be if not computation?")
11/13	Extended Mind	Andy Clark and David Chalmers (1998) "The Extended Mind" [Mindware 8]
11/14	Workshop IW-4		*IW-4 DUE*
Week 13
11/18	tba	tba
11/20	tba	tba
11/21	tba		tba
Thanksgiving Week	No classes		Gobble, gobble -- but don't eat too much!
Week 14	Charting the Revolution
12/02	Group Mind	Georg Theiner, Colin Allen and Rob Goldstone (2010) "Recognizing Group Cognition".
12/04	Philosophy of Cognitive Science vs. Philosophy of Mind	Tony Chemero and Michael Silberstein (2008) "After philosophy of mind: replacing scholasticism with science"
12/05	Workshop IW-5		*IW-5 DUE*
Week 15
12/09	The conservative view	EITHER: Rob Rupert (2013) "Memory, natural kinds, and cognitive extension; or, Martians don't remember, and cognitive science is not about cognition" OR: Rupert (forthcoming) "Against group cognitive states"
12/11	tba	tba
12/12	Workshop IW-6	Bring paper drafts
Week 16	Finals Week		No classes
12/16			*IW-6 DUE*