Course Topic:
In this course, we will seek to learn more about human cognition by studying attempts to create artificial intelligence. By studying the successes and failures of attempts to create systems that can perform the sorts of cognitive tasks we can, we will better understand how our own cognition works. We will also be studying human cognition directly, and using those results to consider how we might take radically different approaches to develop AI. Many of the failures of AI and the studies of human cognition will challenge our naïve ideas about the structure of our cognitive lives and about how our cognitive abilities are generated.

Course Objectives:
The goals of this course are to familiarize you with recent developments in cognitive science and to present the issues and controversies that these developments have raised concerning our best models of cognition. As a result of working through these debates, you should come to a full understanding of the arguments for each side, and of how they relate to each other. Through the course of this class, you should come to a conclusion about where you stand on these various issues, and be able to defend that position with your new understanding. This defense will come in the form of writing persuasive essays that pay critical attention to the views of others. Persuasive writing, growing out of critical reading, is among the central skills taught in this class.

The Mind as a Computer
Mindware Intro, Chapter 1, Appendix 1
Turing, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”
Mindware, Chapter 2
Newell and Simon, “Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry: Symbols and Search”
Searle, “Minds, Brains, and Programs”
Mindware, Chapter 3
Fodor, Psychosemantics, Chapter 1
Churchland, “Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes”
Dennett, “True Believers: The Intentional Strategy and Why it Works”
Mindware, Chapter 4
Churchland, “On the Nature of Theories: A Neurocomputational Perspective”
Fodor and Pylyshn, “Connectionism and Cognitive Architecture”

The Mind as Experience
Mindware, Appendix II
Jackson, “Epiphenomenal Qualia”
Denett, “What RoboMary Knows”

The Mind as Embodied System
Mindware, Chapter 5
Mindware, Chapter 6
Brooks, “Intelligence Without Representation”
Fodor, “Why Paramecia Don’t Have Mental Representations”
Mindware, Chapter 7
Van Gelder, “Dynamics and Cognition”
Keijzer and Bem, “Behavioral Systems Interpreted as Autonomous Agents …"
Mindware, Chapter 8

The Extended Mind
Mindware, Chapter 9
Adams and Aizawa, “The Bounds of Cognition”

Course Topic:
In this course, we will seek to learn more about human cognition by studying attempts to create artificial intelligence. By studying the successes and failures of attempts to create systems that can perform the sorts of cognitive tasks we can, we will better understand how our own cognition works. We will also be studying human cognition directly, and using those results to consider how we might take radically different approaches to develop AI. Many of the failures of AI and the studies of human cognition will challenge our naïve ideas about the structure of our cognitive lives and about how our cognitive abilities are generated. 

Course Objectives:
The goals of this course are to familiarize you with recent developments in cognitive science and to present the issues and controversies that these developments have raised concerning our best models of cognition. As a result of working through these debates, you should come to a full understanding of the arguments for each side, and of how they relate to each other. Through the course of this class, you should come to a conclusion about where you stand on these various issues, and be able to defend that position with your new understanding. This defense will come in the form of writing persuasive essays that pay critical attention to the views of others. Persuasive writing, growing out of critical reading, is among the central skills taught in this class.

The Mind as a Computer	
Mindware Intro, Chapter 1, Appendix 1	
Turing, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”	
Mindware, Chapter 2	
Newell and Simon, “Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry: Symbols and Search” 	
Searle, “Minds, Brains, and Programs”	
Mindware, Chapter 3	
Fodor, Psychosemantics, Chapter 1	
Churchland, “Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes”	
Dennett, “True Believers: The Intentional Strategy and Why it Works”	
Mindware, Chapter 4	
Churchland, “On the Nature of Theories: A Neurocomputational Perspective”	
Fodor and Pylyshn, “Connectionism and Cognitive Architecture”	

The Mind as Experience	
Mindware, Appendix II	
Jackson, “Epiphenomenal Qualia”	
Denett, “What RoboMary Knows”	

The Mind as Embodied System	
Mindware, Chapter 5	
Mindware, Chapter 6	
Brooks, “Intelligence Without Representation”	
Fodor, “Why Paramecia Don’t Have Mental Representations”	
Mindware, Chapter 7 	
Van Gelder, “Dynamics and Cognition”	
Keijzer and Bem, “Behavioral Systems Interpreted as Autonomous Agents …"	
Mindware, Chapter 8	
	
The Extended Mind	
Mindware, Chapter 9	
Adams and Aizawa, “The Bounds of Cognition”

Course Topic:
    In this course, we will seek to learn more about human cognition by studying attempts to create artificial intelligence. By studying the successes and failures of attempts to create systems that can perform the sorts of cognitive tasks we can, we will better understand how our own cognition works. We will also be studying human cognition directly, and using those results to consider how we might take radically different approaches to develop AI. Many of the failures of AI and the studies of human cognition will challenge our naïve ideas about the structure of our cognitive lives and about how our cognitive abilities are generated.

Course Objectives:
    The goals of this course are to familiarize you with recent developments in cognitive science and to present the issues and controversies that these developments have raised concerning our best models of cognition. As a result of working through these debates, you should come to a full understanding of the arguments for each side, and of how they relate to each other. Through the course of this class, you should come to a conclusion about where you stand on these various issues and be able to defend that position with your new understanding. This defense will come in the form of writing persuasive essays that pay critical attention to the views of others. Persuasive writing, growing out of critical reading, is among the central skills taught in this class.

The Mind as a Computer
    Mindware Intro, Chapter 1, Appendix 1
    Turing, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”
    Mindware, Chapter 2
    Newell and Simon, “Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry: Symbols and Search”
    Searle, “Minds, Brains, and Programs”
    Mindware, Chapter 3
    Fodor, Psychosemantics, Chapter 1
    Churchland, “Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes”
    Dennett, “True Believers: The Intentional Strategy and Why it Works”
    Mindware, Chapter 4
    Churchland, “On the Nature of Theories: A Neurocomputational Perspective”
    Fodor and Pylyshn, “Connectionism and Cognitive Architecture”

The Mind as Experience
    Mindware, Appendix II
    Jackson, “Epiphenomenal Qualia”
    Denett, “What RoboMary Knows”

The Mind as Embodied System
    Mindware, Chapter 5
    Mindware, Chapter 6
    Brooks, “Intelligence Without Representation”
    Fodor, “Why Paramecia Don’t Have Mental Representations”
    Mindware, Chapter 7
    Van Gelder, “Dynamics and Cognition”
    Keijzer and Bem, “Behavioral Systems Interpreted as Autonomous Agents …"
    Mindware, Chapter 8

The Extended Mind
    Mindware, Chapter 9
    Adams and Aizawa, “The Bounds of Cognition”