Minds and Machines
You don't understand it if you don't know how to build it.
PHIL 4303.001 & PSYC 4390.001: Minds and Machines
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Spring 2021
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Don Berkich
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TR 9:30 - 10:45, RFEB-101
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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 1/26 | Introduction | |
| Thu 1/28 | The History of Cognition I: Ancient Philosophy | |
| Tue 2/2 | The History of Cognition II: Modern Philosophy | |
| Thu 2/4 | The History of Cognition III: Contemporary Philosophy | Problem Set 01 Assigned |
| Tue 2/9 | The History of Artificial Intelligence | |
| Thu 2/11 | The Turing Test | Problem Set 01 Due |
| Tue 2/16 | Class Canceled Due to Cold Weather | |
| Thu 2/18 | Class Canceled Due to Cold Weather | |
| Tue 2/23 | Computability | Problem Set 02 Assigned |
| Thu 2/25 | Computability, Complexity, and the Church-Turing Thesis | |
| Tue 3/2 | Robot Intentionality I: The Chinese Room | Problem Set 02 Due; Problem Set 03 Assigned; Term Paper Prospectus Assigned |
| Thu 3/4 | Robot Intentionality II: The Chinese Room Replies, Boden's Response, and Searle's Argument | |
| Tue 3/9 | Robot Intentionality III: Dretske's Response | Term Paper Prospectus Due; Annotated Bibliography Assigned |
| Thu 3/11 | Robot Intentionality IV: Dennett's Response & The Frame Problem | Problem Set 03 Due; Problem Set 04 Assigned |
| Tue 3/16 | Robot Intentionality V: Theories of Meaning | |
| Thu 3/18 | Robot Intentionality VI: Externalism and Distributed Cognition | |
| Tue 3/23 | Consciousness I: The Knowledge Argument | Problem Set 04 Due; Problem Set 05 Assigned |
| Thu 3/25 | Consciousness II: The Modal Gap | |
| Tue 3/30 | Consciousness III: The Explanatory Gap | Problem Set 05 Due; Problem Set 06 Assigned |
| Thu 4/01 | Consciousness IV: Responses | |
| Tue 4/06 | Machine Autonomy I: The Traditional Problem of Freedom of Will | Problem Set 06 Due; Problem Set 07 Assigned |
| Thu 4/08 | Machine Autonomy II: Against Machine Agency | Annotated Bibliography Due; Term Paper Rough Draft Assigned |
| Tue 4/13 | Machine Autonomy III: Against Machine Autonomy | Problem Set 07 Due; Problem Set 08 Assigned |
| Thu 4/15 | Robot Persons I | |
| Tue 4/20 | Robot Persons II | Problem Set 08 Due; Problem Set 09 Assigned |
| Thu 4/22 | NFAI I: Connectionism, Genetic Algorithms, Artificial Life, and Situated Robotics | Term Paper Rough Draft Due; Term Paper Final Draft Assigned |
| Tue 4/27 | NFAI II: The Coming Revolution | Problem Set 09 Due; Problem Set 10 Assigned |
| Thu 4/29 | NFAI II: The Age of Robots | |
| Tue 5/04 | Concluding Remarks | Problem Set 10 Due |
| Thu 5/06 | Reading Day | |
| Thu 5/13 | Term Paper Final Draft Due |