PHIL 340 | Philosophy of Cognitive Science

Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study of the mind, which involves collaborations between philosophy, artificial intelligence, psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, anthropology, and more. This course covers foundational questions of cognitive science through a historical overview. It starts with the central debate between symbolic and connectionist models, as they apply to human minds and artificial intelligence. It then turns to contemporary responses, with a focus on embodied, embedded, extended, and enactive cognition; and a focus on comparative cognition across biological and artificial systems.