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Week 1 |
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Jan 12 | Organization and Overview | |
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Jan 14 | Cognitive Prehistory | • Descartes Meditations I & II (alt. version: pdf) • Hume Enquiry section 2 and section 3 • Tolman (1948) html pdf | CA lecture
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Week 2 |
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Jan 19 | MLK Jr. Day, no class | |
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Jan 21 | Beyond Behaviorism | • Chomsky (1959/1967) html pdf • Shepard & Metzler (1971) jstor pdf • Goldstone & Kersten (2003) pdf | George Kachergis
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Week 3 |
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Jan 26 | Turing Machines & Computational Theory of Mind | • TM Wikipedia or SEP • SEP "Computational Theory of Mind" html • [Clark 1] | Reaction1 due
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Jan 28 | snow cancelled class | |
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Week 4 |
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Feb 02 | AI as Empirical Enquiry | • Newell & Simon (1975) pdf • Schank & Abelson (1977) pdf • [Clark 2] | Reaction2 due Richard Veale (CTM)
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Feb 04 | Turing Test & Chinese Room | • Turing (1950) html pdf • Searle (1980) html | Dan Yurovsky
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Feb 06 | | | HPS Colloquium: 1:30p.m. Carl Craver "A Field Guide" (to levels)
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Week 5 |
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Feb 09 | Functionalism | • Fodor (1974) pdf • Marr (1981) pdf • Block (1996) pdf • [Clark 3] | Reaction3 due CA
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Feb 11 | Instrumentalism & Rational Believers | • Dennett (1981) pdf • Tversky & Kahneman (1974) jstor pdf • Todd & Gigerenzer 2007 pdf | Keith Folsom
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Week 6 |
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Feb 16 | Eliminativism and Connectionism | • Pollack (1989) pdf • Ramsey et al. (1991) jstor pdf • Churchland 2005 preprint pdf • [SEP "Connectionism" html] • [Clark 4] | Play with Backprop simulator CA
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Feb 18 | Embodiment | • Brooks (1991) pdf • Clark (1998) pdf • Barsalou, Smith & Breazeal (2006) pdf • [Clark 5] | Seth Frey
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Week 7 |
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Feb 23 | Dynamical Systems | • Van Gelder (1995) pdf • Beer (2000) pdf • Harvey et al. (2005) pdf • [Clark 6 & 7] | Reaction4 due CA
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Feb 25 | Theory of mind: Infants and Animals | • Wimmer & Perner (1983) pdf • Santos et al. (2007) pdf preprint • Allen (in press) pdf preprint • [SEP entry "Simulation theory" html] | Thom Gennaro
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Week 8 |
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Mar 02 | Reasoning and Rationality | •Allen (2006) pdf •Vigo, R., and Allen, C. (2009) pdf | CA
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Mar 04 | Logic and Psychology | SvL-1 | Aaron Haltom
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Week 9 |
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Mar 09 | Logical Reasoning | SvL-2 | Reaction5 due Robert Mahaney COGS Colloquium 4 p.m. Lori Santos
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Mar 11 | The Wason Task | SvL-3 | Sean Matthews
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Week of Spring Break |
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Mar 16 | No class | |
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Mar 18 | No class | |
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Week 10 |
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Mar 23 | Exploration vs. Experiment | SvL-4 | PAPER PROPOSAL DUE Hongwei Shen COGS Colloquium Tatsuya Kameda
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Mar 25 | Lab vs. Wild | SvL-5 | Chung-Lin Yang
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Week 11 |
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Mar 30 | Evolution of Human Reasoning | SvL-6 | Alida Field COGS Colloquium Melvyn Goodale
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Apr 01 | Planning and Reasoning | SvL-7 | CA
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Week 12 |
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Apr 06 | Planning and Reasoning | SvL-7 | Reaction6 due Matthew Falk COGS Colloquium Michael Spivey
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Apr 08 | Reasoning in ANNs | SvL-8 | CA
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Week 13 |
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April 13 | Nomonotonicity and Autism | SvL-9 | Viridiana Benitez COGS Colloquium Angela Yu
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April 15 | Nomonotonicity and Autism | SvL-9 | Dimitar Nikolov
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April 17 | | | PAPER DRAFT DUE
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Week 14 |
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April 20 | Syllogisms and Beyond | SvL-10 | Neal Utterback COGS Colloquium Jeff Elman
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April 22 | Syllogisms and Beyond | SvL-10 | CA
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Week 15 |
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April 27 | Rationality again | SvL-11 | Reacton7 due Georgi Chunev
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April 29 | Perceptual Manipulations Theory | Landy et al. (in prep.) | CA
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Finals Week |
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May 4 | | | FINAL PAPER DUE
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