BCSC 275: Lecture Schedule (Tentative)
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Date
Topic
Readings
Introduction and 'Pre-history' of cognitive science
08/27
Review syllabus
09/01
Bermúdez 1.0, 1.1, 1.3
Chomsky "Review of Skinner's Verbal Behavior"
Early cognitive-scientific theories and results
09/03
Bermúdez 1.2, 1.4, 1.5
Miller "The magical number seven, plus or minus two"
09/08
Bermúdez 2.0-2.2
Shepard and Metzler "Mental rotation of three-dimensional objects"
Functional analysis and 'levels' of analysis
09/10
Bermúdez 2.3
Excerpt from Marr's (1982) Vision
09/15
Bermúdez 3.1, 3.2
Mishkin et al. "Object vision and spatial vision: two cortical pathways"
More functional analysis… and "The Integration Challenge" introduced
09/17
Bermúdez 3.4
Petersen et al. "Positron emission topographic studies"
09/22
Bermúdez 4.1- 4.3
Case study in the challenge of integration---Psychology of reasoning
09/24
Bermúdez 4.4, 4.5
09/29
Catch-up
Integration and intertheoretic reduction
10/01
Bermúdez 5.1-5.3
10/06
Review
Exam 1… and modeling the mind as a 'symbol system'
10/08
Exam 1 in class
10/13
Bermúdez 6.1
Newell and Simon "Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry"
The "language of thought" hypothesis and the "Chinese room" argument
10/15
Bermúdez 6.2
10/20
Bermúdez 6.3
Searle "Can Computers Think?"
Churchland and Churchland "Could a Machine Think?"
Churchland and Churchland "Could a Machine Think?"
Applications of PSSH: Propositional and Imagistic
10/22
Bermúdez 7.1-7.2
10/27
Bermúdez 7.3
Connectionism: the mind as a neural network
10/29
Bermúdez 3.3, 8.1-8.2
11/03
Bermúdez 8.3-8.4
Applications of connectionism
11/05
Bermúdez 9.1-9.2
11/10
Bermúdez 9.3-9.5
Dynamical systems theory: cognitive science without representations?
11/12
Exam 2 in class
11/17
Bermúdez 13.1-13.2
Cognitive science of consciousness
11/19
Bermúdez 14.1-14.4
11/24
Bermúdez 14.5-14.7
New theories of consciousness: Integrated information theory
11/26
Thanksgiving – no classes
12/01
Tononi and Koch "Integrated information theory - from consciousness to its physical substrate"
12/03
Overflow
12/08
Final Class
Final exam TBD