Overview
Description
Topics may include mind-body problems, consciousness, intention, meaning, explaining human action, artificial intelligence, and roles of imagery, language and computer-like processing in cognition.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- 6 credits in philosophy, 3 of which may be waived with permission of the instructor.
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
6 credits in philosophy, 3 of which may be waived with permission of the instructor.
Units
Lecture3
Learning Outcomes
- state a thesis about a central traditional problem in the philosophy of mind, and provide evidence and argument (including replies to counter-arguments) in its defense.
- explain and interpret the ideas associated with theories in the contemporary literature in the philosophy of mind.
- distinguish better and worse reasoning, and recognize conceptual relationships and patterns of inference (in contemporary theories in the philosophy of mind).
- show what is at stake in abstract debates in the philosophy of mind, and indicate how positions in these debates have implications for the understanding of mental activity.