| Date | Topic | Reading Assignments | Writing Assignments, etc. |
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| Week 1 |
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| Jan 12 | Organization and Overview | |
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| Jan 14 | Cognitive Prehistory |
• Descartes selections from Discourse on Method
• Hume Enquiry section 2 and section 3
• Tolman (1948) html pdf
| Reaction1 due
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| Week 2 |
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| Jan 19 | MLK Day | No Class |
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| Jan 21 | Beyond Behaviorism |
• Chomsky (1959/1967) html pdf
• Shepard & Metzler (1971) jstor pdf or here
• Skinner (1977) jstor or here
| Reaction2 due
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| Week 3 |
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| Jan 26 | Turing Machines, Functionalism, & Computational Theory of Mind |
• "Turing Machine" article at Wikipedia or SEP
• SEP "Computational Theory of Mind" html
† [Clark 1]
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| Jan 28 | AI as Empirical Enquiry (or not) |
• Newell & Simon (1975) pdf
• Schank & Abelson (1977) pdf
† [Clark 2]
† [Schank & Abelson (1995) pdf]
| Reaction3 due
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| Week 4 |
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| Feb 02 | More concepts |
• Goldstone & Kersten (2003) pdf
• Lawrence & Margolis (2011) SEP entry on Concepts
• FP1
† [Vigo (2010) pdf]
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| Feb 04 | Cognition ← → Brain? |
• Fodor (1974) pdf
• Marr (1982) chapter 1 pdf and chapter 6 pdf
• Figdor (2010) pdf
† [Clark 3]
† [SEP "Multiple Realizability" html]
| Reaction4 due
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| Week 5 |
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| Feb 09 | Turing Test & Chinese Room |
• Turing (1950) html pdf
• Searle (1980) preprint pdf
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| Feb 11 | Instrumentalism & Rational Believers |
• Dennett (1981) pdf
• Tversky & Kahneman (1974) jstor pdf
• Todd & Gigerenzer (2007) pdf
| Reaction5 due
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| Week 6 |
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| Feb 16 | Connectionism and Eliminativism |
• Medler (1998) pdf
• Ramsey et al. (1991) jstor pdf
• Churchland 2005 preprint pdf
† [SEP "Connectionism" html]
† [Clark 4]
† [Play with Backprop simulator]
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| Feb 18 | Embodiment |
• Brooks (1991) pdf
• Clark (1998) pdf
• Barsalou, Smith & Breazeal (2007) pdf
† [Clark 5]
| Reaction6 due
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| Week 7 |
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| Feb 23 | Dynamical Systems |
• Van Gelder (1995) pdf
• Beer (2000) pdf
• Silberstein & Chemero (2008) pdf
† [Clark 6 & 7]
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| Feb 25 | Extended and Collective Minds |
• Clark & Chalmers (1998) pdf
• Adams & Aizawa 2010 pdf
• Theiner et al. (2010) pdf
| Reaction7 due
Final paper requirements will be discussed
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| Week 8 |
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| Mar 02 | Fodorian assumptions | FP1 + Fodor 1985 pdf |
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| Mar 04 | Fodorian assumptions | FP1 + Fodor 1985 pdf | Reaction8 due
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| Week 9 |
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| Mar 09 | Rage against the machine | FP2 + Quine 1951 pdf |
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| Mar 11 | Rage against the machine | FP2 + Quine 1951 pdf |
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| Week of Spring Break |
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| Mar 16 | spring break | no class meeting |
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| Mar 18 | spring break | no class meeting |
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| Week 10 |
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| Mar 23 | Rage against the machine | FP2 + additional readings tba |
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| Mar 25 | Voices in the desert | FP3 + additional readings tba | last date for submission of paper proposals
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| Week 11 |
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| Mar 30 | tba | |
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| Apr 01 | tba | |
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| Week 12 |
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| Apr 06 | Voices in the desert | FP3 + additional readings tba |
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| Apr 08 | Perceptual contents | FP4 + additional readings tba | Reaction9 due
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| Week 13 |
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| Apr 13 | Perceptual contents | FP4 + additional readings tba |
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| Apr 15 | Perceptual contents | FP4 + additional readings tba | Reaction10 (book review) due
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| Week 14 |
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| Apr 20 | To infinity and beyond | FP5 + additional readings tba |
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| Apr 22 | To infinity and beyond | FP5 + additional readings tba | paper draft due
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| Week 15 |
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| Apr 27 | Paper workshops | |
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| Apr 29 | Paper workshops | |
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| Finals Week |
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| May 04 | | | Final paper due
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