PHIL 8340 - Seminar in Philosophy and Cognitive Science

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Enrollment in the Philosophy or PPE masters programs, or consent of instructor.
Description
An in-depth examination of specific issues concerned with the interdisciplinary study of mind, drawing on research from philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, linguistics, computer science, and ethology. Topics may include: mental representation and language, sensation and perception, inference and reasoning, innateness and modularity, the emotions, learning and conceptual change, moral cognition and development, consciousness and self-consciousness, mental deficits and disorders, animal and computer models of cognition, folk psychology and reductive strategies in neurobiology; a careful reading of one or more recent influential books in philosophy or cognitive science. May be repeated but only if content varies. A maximum of six credit hours may be applied toward the degree.