PH02002 Extended and Embodied Cognition

Filozofická fakulta
jaro 2019
Rozsah
bloková výuka. 5 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
dr. Lucas Thorpe (přednášející), prof. Dr. phil. Jakub Mácha, Ph.D. (zástupce)
Garance
prof. PhDr. Josef Krob, CSc.
Katedra filozofie – Filozofická fakulta
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra filozofie – Filozofická fakulta
Předpoklady
familiarity with English
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je otevřen studentům libovolného oboru.
Cíle předmětu
This class will focus on recent work in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science that stresses the embodied, embedded and extended nature of cognition. These approaches reject, in various ways, the dominant computational theory of mind. We will begin with a brief overview of the computational theory of mind and then look at criticisms of this paradigm. Two areas of focus will be those who appeal to Dynamic Systems Theory and those who appeal to Gibson’s Ecological theory of perception. Although most of the class will be focused on our perceptual capacities, we will explore other aspects of cognition.
Výstupy z učení
Familiarity with the discussed texts
Osnova
  • Monday 17/06/2019:
  • The Computational Theory of Cognition: The Mind as a Syntactic Machine
  • (1) Jerry Fodor, The Mind Doesn’t work that Way, MIT Press, 2000, chapter 1
  • (2) David Marr (1982), Vision: A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information, (Republished by MIT press in 2000), selections from Introduction.
  • Tuesday 18/06/2019
  • The Mind is neither Syntactic nor a Machine.
  • (1) Daniel Nicholson (2018), “Reconceptualizing the Organism: From Complex Machine to Flowing Stream.” In John Dupree (eds), Everything Flows, OUP, 2018.
  • (2) Andy Clark, (2008). Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension, Oxford: OUP. Chapters 1 and 2.
  • Wednesday 19/06/2019
  • Robots (and Steam Engines) to the Rescue? “The world is its own best model”
  • (1) Tim Van Gelder (1995), ‘What Might Cognition be if not Computation?’ Journal of Philosophy, 92:7 (first half)
  • (2) Rodney Brooks (1991), ‘Intelligence without Representation’, Artificial Intelligence 47:139-159
  • Thursday 20/06/2019
  • Gibson and Ecological Psychology
  • (1 &2) James Gibson (1979). The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception, Boston: Houghton-Mifflin). (selections)
  • Friday 21/06/2019
  • Sensory Motor Representations
  • (1) J. Kevin O’Regan and Alva Noë (2001), “A sensorimotor account of vision and visual consciousness”, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 939-1031
  • (2) Ruth Garrett Millikan (1995) “Pushni-Pullyu Representations”, Philosophical Perspectives, 9, 185-200.
Literatura
  • David Marr (1982), Vision: A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information, (Republished by MIT press in 2000), selections from Introduction.
  • Jerry Fodor, The Mind Doesn’t work that Way, MIT Press, 2000, chapter 1
Výukové metody
lectures, class discussion
Metody hodnocení
Class Requirements: Either one longer paper (10-15 pages) or two shorter papers (4-7 pages) due to August 31st.

Grading: Class Participation and Attendance can increase or decrease your grade by a + or -. Anyone who gets an ‘f’ for attendance will fail the whole class.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
http://www.phil.boun.edu.tr/lthorpe/
All the readings are available in pdf form.
Contact email: lthorpe@gmail.com
The course will be opened if at least 10 students enroll.

The course will take place always between 11-13 (in B1.41) and 14-16 (in A11).
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