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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 |
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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.|
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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∂
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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. |
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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 |
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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* |
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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! |
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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
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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* |
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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|
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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|
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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* |
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Week 13|||
11/18 | tba ||tba
11/20 | tba ||tba
11/21 | tba |tba |
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Thanksgiving Week | No classes | Gobble, gobble -- but don't eat too much! |
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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* |
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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
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Week 16|Finals Week|No classes|
12/16 ||*IW-6 DUE*
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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
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#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)|