PHI310 Philosophy and Cognitive Science
simon — Fri, 08/01/2008 - 10:04
Explore the philosophical foundations of cognitive science and investigate the most serious challenges to its program. As part of this unit, you will examine the nature of consciousness and the self. Can subjectivity and qualitative experience be explained in objective terms? Can our consciousness be split or disunified? What happens when you divide the brain in half? The unit looks at a range of delusions and psychopathology. The unit then introduces the idea of mental representation, the Theory of Mind, as well as connectionist and dynamical approaches.










