Overview
Description
Critical assessment of interdisciplinary approaches to topics such as perception, memory, mental representation, innate knowledge, intentionality, rationality, and artificial intelligence.
Units
Lecture3
Learning Outcomes
- state a thesis about a central problem in the philosophy of cognitive neuroscience, 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 cognitive neuroscience.
- distinguish better and worse reasoning, and recognize conceptual relationships, in a specialized philosophical topic or issue.
- show what is at stake in abstract debates in the philosophy of cognitive neuroscience, and indicate how empirical scientific work is relevant to addressing philosophical problems in this area.
- discuss the relationship between philosophy and cognitive neuroscience by summarizing current research and critically reviewing the literature in a subject area at the intersection of philosophy and cognitive neuroscience.