Minds and Machines
You don't understand it if you don't know how to build it.
PHIL 4303.001 & PSYC 4390.002: Minds and Machines
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Spring 2018
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Don Berkich
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TR 9:30 - 10:45, CS-114
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Schedule
Please note that this schedule is tentative and authoritative: Changes may be made, but they would be made here. Thus this page supersedes any page with which it conflicts..
| Tue 1/16 | Introduction | |
| Thu 1/18 | The History of Cognition I: Ancient Philosophy | |
| Tue 1/23 | The History of Cognition II: Modern Philosophy | |
| Thu 1/25 | The History of Cognition III: Contemporary Philosophy | Problem Set 01 Assigned |
| Tue 1/30 | The History of Artificial Intelligence | |
| Thu 2/01 | The Turing Test | Problem Set 01 Due |
| Tue 2/06 | Computability | |
| Thu 2/08 | Computability, Complexity, and the Church-Turing Thesis | Problem Set 02 Assigned |
| Tue 2/13 | Class Canceled Due to Traditional Mind Building Exercise | |
| Thu 2/15 | Robot Intentionality I: The Chinese Room Thought Experiment & the Replies | Problem Set 02 Due; Problem Set 03 Assigned; Term Paper Prospectus Assigned |
| Tue 2/20 | Robot Intentionality II: Boden's Response, Block's Response, and Searle's Argument | |
| Thu 2/22 | Robot Intentionality III: Dretske's Response | Problem Set 03 Due; Term Paper Prospectus Due; Problem Set 04 Assigned |
| Tue 2/27 | Robot Intentionality IV: Dennett's Response & the Frame Problem | Annotated Bibliography Assigned |
| Thu 3/01 | Robot Intentionality V: Theories of Meaning | Problem Set 04 Due; Problem Set 05 Assigned |
| Tue 3/06 | Robot Intentionality VI: Externalism and Distributed Cognition | |
| Thu 3/08 | Consciousness I: The (Hard) Problem | Problem Set 05 Due; Problem Set 06 Assigned |
| Tue 3/13 | Spring Break | |
| Thu 3/15 | Spring Break | |
| Tue 3/20 | Consciousness II: The Knowledge Argument | |
| Thu 3/22 | Consciousness III: The Modal Gap | Problem Set 06 Due; Problem Set 07 Assigned |
| Tue 3/27 | Consciousness IV: The Explanatory Gap | Annotated Bibliography Due; Term Paper Rough Draft Assigned |
| Thu 3/29 | Consciousness V: Responses | Problem Set 07 Due; Problem Set 08 Assigned |
| Tue 4/03 | Machine Autonomy I: The Traditional Problem of Freedom of Will | |
| Thu 4/05 | Machine Autonomy II: Against Machine Agency | Problem Set 08 Due; Problem Set 09 Assigned |
| Tue 4/10 | Machine Autonomy III: Against Machine Autonomy | |
| Thu 4/12 | Robot Persons I | Problem Set 09 Due; Problem Set 10 Assigned |
| Tue 4/17 | Robot Persons II | Term Paper Rough Draft Due; Term Paper Final Draft Assigned |
| Thu 4/19 | NFAI I: Connectionism, Genetic Algorithms, Artificial Life, and Situated Robotics | |
| Tue 4/24 | NFAI II: The Coming Revolution | Problem Set 10 Due |
| Thu 4/26 | NFAI III: The Age of the Robot | |
| Tue 5/01 | Closing Remarks | |
| Thu 5/03 | Reading Day | |
| Mon 5/07 | Office Hours: Noon-5:00pm | |
| Wed 5/09 | Office Hours: Noon-5:00pm | Term Paper Final Draft Due |