You don't understand it if you don't know how to build it.
PHIL 4303.001 & PSYC 4390.003: Minds and Machines
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Spring 2024
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Don Berkich
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MW 2:00 - 3:15, IH-157
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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..
| Wednesday, 1/17 |
Introductory Remarks |
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| Monday, 1/22 |
The History of Cognition I: Ancient Philosophy |
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| Wednesday, 1/24 |
The History of Cognition II: Modern Philosophy |
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| Monday, 1/29 |
The History of Cognition III: Contemporary Philosophy |
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| Wednesday, 1/31 |
The History of Artificial Intelligence |
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| Monday, 2/5 |
The Turing Test |
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| Wednesday, 2/7 |
Computability |
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| Monday, 2/12 |
Computability, Complexity, and the Church-Turing Thesis |
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| Wednesday, 2/14 |
Robot Intentionality I: The Chinese Room |
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| Monday, 2/19 |
Robot Intentionality II: The Chinese Room Replies, Boden's Response, and Searle's Argument |
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| Wednesday, 2/21 |
Robot Intentionality III: Dretske's Response |
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| Monday, 2/26 |
Robot Intentionality IV: Dennett's Response and the Frame Problem |
Term Paper Prospectus Assigned |
| Wednesday, 2/28 |
Robot Intentionality V: Theories of Meaning |
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| Monday, 3/4 |
Robot Intentionality VI: Externalism and Distributed Cognition |
Term Paper Prospectus Due |
| Wednesday, 3/6 |
Consciousness I: The (Hard) Problem |
Annotated Bibliography Assigned |
| Monday, 3/11 |
Spring Break |
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| Wednesday, 3/13/td>
| Spring Break |
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| Monday, 3/18 |
Consciousness II: The Knowledge Argument |
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| Wednesday, 3/20 |
Consciousness III: The Modal Gap |
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| Monday, 3/25 |
Consciousness IV: The Explanatory Gap |
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| Wednesday, 3/27 |
Consciousness V: Responses |
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| Monday, 4/1 |
Machine Autonomy I: The Traditional Problem of Freedom of Will |
Annotated Bibliography Due; Term Paper Rough Draft Assigned |
| Wednesday, 4/3 |
Machine Autonomy II: Against Machine Agency |
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| Monday, 4/8 |
Machine Autonomy III: Against Machine Autonomy |
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| Wednesday, 4/10 |
Robot Persons |
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| Monday, 4/15 |
GOFAI: Where We've Been |
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| Wednesday, 4/17 |
NFAI I: The Biomimetic Revolution Begins |
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| Monday, 4/22 |
NFAI II: The Rise of the Neural Nets |
Term Paper Rough Draft Due; Term Paper Final Draft Assigned |
| Wednesday, 4/24 |
Closing Remarks |
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| Monday, 4/29 |
Class Cancelled for Jury Duty |
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| Tuesday, 4/30 |
Reading Day |
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| Wednesday, 5/1 |
No Class |
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| Monday, 5/6 |
Term Paper Presentations: 1:45-4:15 |
Term Paper Final Draft Due |
