PHIL30383

Prerequisites: Any 10000-level or 20000-level PHIL course or an upper-division Psychology or Neuroscience course. This course will focus on Philosophical issues foundational to Psychology. Specifically, it will involve an interdisciplinary exploration of the nature, mechanisms, and architecture of cognition. Topics include: models of psychological explanation, the nature of commonsense psychology and the relationship between rationality and mental causation, functionalist approaches to cognition, computational vs. neural network models of mind, and the relationships between perception, action, and cognition.