| Date | Topic | Reading Assignments | Writing Assignments, etc. |
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| Week 1 |
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| Jan 10 | Organization and Overview | |
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| Jan 12 | 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 17 | Beyond Behaviorism |
• Chomsky (1959/1967) html pdf
• Shepard & Metzler (1971) jstor pdf or here
• Skinner (1977) jstor
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| Jan 19 | Turing Machines & Computational Theory of Mind |
• "Turing Machine" article at Wikipedia or SEP
• SEP "Computational Theory of Mind" html
† [Clark 1]
| Reaction2 due
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| Week 3 |
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| Jan 24 | AI as Empirical Enquiry (or not) |
• Newell & Simon (1975) pdf
• Schank & Abelson (1977) pdf
† [Clark 2]
† [Schank & Abelson (1995) pdf]
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| Jan 26 | More concepts |
• Goldstone & Kersten (2003) pdf
• Lawrence & Margolis (2011) SEP entry on Concepts
† [Vigo (2010) pdf]
| Reaction3 due
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| Week 4 |
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| Jan 31 | Cognition ← → Brain? |
• Fodor (1974) pdf
• Marr (1982) chapter 1 pdf and chapter 6 pdf
† [Clark 3]
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| Feb 02 | Turing Test & Chinese Room |
• Turing (1950) html pdf
• Searle (1980) preprint pdf
| Reaction4 due
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| Week 5 |
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| Feb 07 | More Functionalism |
• Putnam (1967) (pdf)
• Block and Fodor (1972) pdf
† Block (1996) pdf
† Churchland 2005 preprint pdf
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| Feb 09 | 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 14 | Connectionism and Eliminativism |
• Medler (1998) pdf
• Ramsey et al. (1991) jstor pdf
† Schmidhuber (2016) Scholarpedia article on deep learning
† [SEP "Connectionism" html]
† [Clark 4]
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| Feb 16 | 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 21 | Dynamical Systems |
• Van Gelder (1995) pdf
• Beer (2000) pdf
• Silberstein & Chemero (2008) pdf
† [Clark 6 & 7]
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| Feb 23 | Extended and Collective Minds |
• Clark & Chalmers (1998) html
• Adams & Aizawa 2010 pdf
| Reaction7 due
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| Week 8 |
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| Feb 28 | Group Cognition |
• Theiner et al. (2010) pdf
• Ludwig (2015) pdf |
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| Mar 02 | More on Multiple Realizability |
• Figdor (2010) pdf
• Anderson (2010) pdf
† [SEP "Multiple Realizability" html]
| Reaction8 due
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| Week 9 |
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| Mar 7 | Physicalism and MR | • P&S 1 |
Final paper requirements will be discussed
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| Mar 09 | no class | | start sending paper proposals
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| Week of Spring Break |
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| Mar 14 | spring break | no class meeting |
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| Mar 16 | spring break | no class meeting |
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| Week 10 |
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| Mar 21 | Realization | • P&S 2 |
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| Mar 23 | What is MR? | • P&S 3 | last day to submit a paper proposal
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| Week 11 |
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| Mar 28 | Relevant Differences | • P&S 4 |
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| Mar 30 | Neural Plasticity | • P&S 5
| Reaction9 due
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| Week 12 |
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| Apr 04 | Kind splitting/comparative | • P&S 6 |
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| Apr 06 | Likelihood of MR | • P&S 7 |
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| Week 13 |
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| Apr 11 | Computationalist Argument for MR | • P&S 8 |
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| Apr 13 | Putnam's Revenge | • P&S 9 |
Reaction10 (book review) due
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| Week 14 |
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| Apr 18 | Mental Causation | • P&S 10 |
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| Apr 20 | tba |
| paper draft due
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| Week 15 |
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| Apr 25 | Paper workshops | |
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| Apr 27 | Paper workshops | |
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| Finals Week |
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| May 03 | | | Final paper due
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