PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF NEURAL, BEHAVIORAL, AND COGNITIVE SCIENCES   [Archived Catalog]
2023-2024 Graduate & Professional Studies Catalog
   

HPS 2353 - PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF NEURAL, BEHAVIORAL, AND COGNITIVE SCIENCES


Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will broadly survey several of the main philosophical assumptions underlying current approaches in the neural, behavioral, and cognitive sciences. Students will acquire a comprehensive grasp of issues such as the status of computational and representational theories of mind, the nature of explanation in these sciences, modularity of mind, the significance of embodied and situated theories of cognition, the scientific status of folk-psychological notions such as concepts, beliefs, and consciousness, the relevance of neuroscience to psychology, and vice versa, cognitive ontology, and the possibility of defining cognition.
Academic Career: Graduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Grad LG/SNC Basis


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