PHIL 8340 - Seminar in Philosophy and Cognitive Science

3 Hours
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.

Prerequisite(s): None.
Corequisite(s): None.
Pre/Corequisite(s): None.
Requirements: None.