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 2025
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Don Berkich
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TR 9:30 - 10:45, CI-102
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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..
| Tuesday, 1/21 |
Class Cancelled due to Weather Anomaly |
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| Thursday, 1/23 |
Introduction and the History of Cognition I: Ancient Philosophy |
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| Tuesday, 1/28 |
The History of Cognition II: Modern Philosophy |
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| Thursday, 1/30 |
The History of Cognition III: Contemporary Philosophy |
Problem Set 01 Assigned |
| Tuesday, 2/4 |
The History of Artificial Intelligence |
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| Thursday, 2/6 |
The Turing Test |
Problem Set 01 Due |
| Tuesday, 2/11 |
Computability |
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| Thursday, 2/13 |
Computability, Complexity, and the Church-Turing Thesis |
Problem Set 02 Assigned |
| Tuesday, 2/18 |
Robot Intentionality I: The Chinese Room |
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| Thursday, 2/20 |
Robot Intentionality II: The Chinese Room Replies, Boden's Response, and Searle's Argument |
Problem Set 02 Due; Problem Set 03 Assigned; Term Paper Prospectus Assigned |
| Tuesday, 2/25 |
Robot Intentionality III: Dretske's Response |
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| Thursday, 2/27 |
Robot Intentionality IV: Dennett's Response and the Frame Problem |
Problem Set 03 Due; Term Paper Prospectus Due; Problem Set 04 Assigned |
| Tuesday, 3/4 |
Robot Intentionality V: Theories of Meaning |
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| Thursday, 3/6 |
Robot Intentionality VI: Externalism and Distributed Cognition |
Problem Set 04 Due; Problem Set 05 Assigned; Annotated Bibliography Assigned |
| Tuesday, 3/11 |
Spring Break |
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| Thursday, 3/13/td>
| Spring Break |
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| Tuesday, 3/18 |
Consciousness I: The (Hard) Problem |
Problem Set 05 Due; Problem Set 06 Assigned |
| Thursday, 3/20 |
Consciousness II: The Knowledge Argument |
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| Tuesday, 3/25 |
Consciousness III: The Modal Gap |
Problem Set 06 Due; Problem Set 07 Assigned |
| Thursday, 3/27 |
Consciousness IV: The Explanatory Gap |
Annotated Bibliography Due; Term Paper Rough Draft Assigned |
| Tuesday, 4/1 |
Consciousness V: Responses |
Problem Set 07 Due; Problem Set 08 Assigned |
| Thursday, 4/3 |
Machine Autonomy I: The Traditional Problem of Freedom of Will |
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| Tuesday, 4/8 |
Machine Autonomy II: Against Machine Agency |
Problem Set 08 Due; Problem Set 09 Assigned |
| Thursday, 4/10 |
Machine Autonomy III: Against Machine Autonomy |
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| Tuesday, 4/15 |
Robot Persons |
Problem Set 09 Due; Problem Set 10 Assigned |
| Thursday, 4/17 |
GOFAI: Where We've Been |
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| Tuesday, 4/22 |
NFAI I: The Biomimetic Revolution Begins |
Term Paper Rough Draft Due; Term Paper Final Draft Assigned |
| Thursday, 4/24 |
NFAI II: The Rise of the Neural Nets |
Problem Set 10 Due; Term Paper Final Draft Assigned |
| Tuesday, 4/28 |
Large Neural Nets |
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| Thursday, 4/30 |
Closing Remarks |
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| Tuesday, 5/6 |
Reading Day |
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| Tuesday, 5/13 |
Term Paper Presentations: 8:00-10:30 |
Term Paper Final Draft Due |
