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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
Richard Veale
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| Jan 28 | AI as Empirical Enquiry | • Newell & Simon (1975) pdf
• Schank & Abelson (1977) pdf
• [Clark 2] |
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| Week 4 |
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| Feb 02 | Turing Test & Chinese Room | • Turing (1950) html pdf
• Searle (1980) html | Reaction2 due
Dan Yurovsky
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| Feb 04 | Functionalism | • Fodor (1974) pdf
• Marr (1981) pdf
• Block (1996) pdf
• [Clark 3] | CA
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| Feb 06 | | | HPS Colloquium: 1:30p.m. Carl Craver "A Field Guide" (to levels of abstraction)
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| Week 5 |
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| Feb 09 | Instrumentalism & Rational Believers | • Dennett (1981) pdf
• Tversky & Kahneman (1974) jstor pdf
• Todd & Gigerenzer 2007 pdf | Reaction3 due
Keith Folsom
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| Feb 11 | 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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| Week 6 |
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| Feb 16 | Embodiment | • Brooks (1991) pdf
• Clark (1998) pdf
• Barsalou, Smith & Breazeal (2006) pdf
• [Clark 5] | Reaction4 due
Seth Frey
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| Feb 18 | Dynamical Systems | • Van Gelder (1995) pdf
• Beer (2000) pdf
• Harvey et al. (2005) pdf
• [Clark 6 & 7] | CA
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| Week 7 |
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| Feb 23 | 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] | Reaction5 due
Thom Gennaro
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| Feb 25 | Reasoning and Rationality | •Allen (2006) pdf
•Vigo, R., and Allen, C. (2009) pdf | CA
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| Week 8 |
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| Mar 02 | Logic and Psychology | SvL-1 | Reaction6 due
Aaron Haltom
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| Mar 04 | Logical Reasoning | SvL-2 | Robert Mahaney
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| Week 9 |
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| Mar 09 | The Wason Task | SvL-3 | Reaction7 due
Sean Matthews
COGS Colloquium 4 p.m. Lori Santos
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| Mar 11 | More Wason | SvL-3 | CA
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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 ShenCOGS 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 | Reaction8 due
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 | Reaction9 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 | Reaction10 due
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 | Reaction11 due
Neal UtterbackCOGS 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 | Reaction12 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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