#file order: date|topic|assignment|read #print order:date|topic|read|assignment #---------------------------------- 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 | 7:30-9:00 p.m. first Patten lecture by John Searle "Consciousness as a problem in philosophy and neurobiology" |Review readings from last week 09/11|The Turing Test | 7:30-9:00 second Patten lecture "The Logical Structure of Human Civilization"|Alan Turing (1950) "Computing Machinery & Intelligence". 09/12 |Workshop IW-1 |*IW-1 DUE*||ç∂ #---------------------------------- 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) | Monty Python's argument clinic |CA's guide to writing philosophy papers #---------------------------------- 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* #---------------------- #
Schank & Abelson (1977) excerpts from Scripts, Plans, Goals, and Understanding (pdf)| #Bird Brains|Emery (2006) "Cognitive ornithology: the evolution of avian intelligence" (pdf)| #Mirror neurons|Allen (2009) "Mirror, Mirror in the Brain, What's the Monkey Stand to Gain?" (pdf)| #Emotion|Damasio Descartes' Error ch 1 and ch 7 | #Metaphors for Mind I: Machines|Read the Wikipedia Turing Machine entry (html) entry first, then, for a more in-depth treatment see the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry (html)|Explore at least one of the interactive sites linked to these articles. #Functionalism|Block (1996) "What is Functionalism?" (pdf)| #More functionalism |Reread SEP article
| #Autonomy of Psychology|Fodor (1974) "Special Sciences (or: The disunity of science as a working hypothesis)" (pdf)| #Beliefs and Rationality|Tversky & Kahneman "Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases" (jstor) (pdf)| #Theory of Mind|Wimmer & Perner (1983) "Beliefs about beliefs: Representation and constraining function of wrong beliefs in young children's understanding of deception" (pdf)
Optional: Gordon (2004) "Folk Psychology as Simulation" (html [SEP entry])| #Connectionism I|Learning in artificial neural networks (Background primer)| #Connectionism II|Pollack (1989) "Connectionism: past, present, and future" (pdf)|