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 2020
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Don Berkich
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TR 9:30 - 10:45, Online Only
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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 1/21 | Introduction | |
| Thu 1/23 | The History of Cognition I: Ancient Philosophy | |
| Tue 1/28 | The History of Cognition II: Modern Philosophy | |
| Thu 1/30 | The History of Cognition III: Contemporary Philosophy | Problem Set 01 Assigned |
| Tue 2/04 | The History of Artificial Intelligence | |
| Thu 2/06 | The Turing Test | Problem Set 01 Due |
| Tue 2/11 | Computability | |
| Thu 2/13 | Computability, Complexity, and the Church-Turing Thesis | Problem Set 02 Assigned |
| Tue 2/18 | Robot Intentionality I: The Chinese Room | |
| Thu 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 |
| Tue 2/25 | Robot Intentionality III: Dretske's Response | |
| Thu 2/27 | Robot Intentionality IV: Dennett's Response | Problem Set 03 Due; Term Paper Prospectus Due; Problem Set 04 Assigned |
| Tue 3/03 | Robot Intentionality V: The Frame Problem | Annotated Bibliography Assigned |
| Thu 3/05 | Robot Intentionality VI: Theories of Meaning | Problem Set 04 Due; Problem Set 05 Assigned |
| Tue 3/10 | Spring Break | |
| Thu 3/12 | Spring Break | |
| Tue 3/17 | Extended Spring Break | |
| Thu 3/19 | Extended Spring Break | |
| Tue 3/24 | Robot Intentionality VII: Externalism and Distributed Cognition | Problem Set 05 Due; Problem Set 06 Assigned |
| Thu 3/26 | Consciousness I: The (Hard) Problem | |
| Tue 3/31 | Consciousness II: The Knowledge Argument | Problem Set 06 Due; Problem Set 07 Assigned |
| Thu 4/02 | Consciousness III: The Modal Gap | |
| Tue 4/07 | Consciousness IV: The Explanatory Gap | Problem Set 07 Due; Problem Set 08 Assigned |
| Thu 4/09 | Consciousness V: Responses | Annotated Bibliography Due; Term Paper Rough Draft Assigned |
| Tue 4/14 | Machine Autonomy I: The Traditional Problem of Freedom of Will | Problem Set 08 Due; Problem Set 09 Assigned |
| Thu 4/16 | Machine Autonomy II: Against Machine Autonomy | |
| Tue 4/21 | Robot Persons I | Problem Set 09 Due; Problem Set 10 Assigned |
| Thu 4/23 | Robot Persons II | Term Paper Rough Draft Due; Term Paper Final Draft Assigned |
| Tue 4/28 | NFAI I: Connectionism, Genetic Algorithms, Artificial Life, and Situated Robotics | |
| Thu 4/30 | NFAI II: The Coming Revolution | |
| Tue 5/05 | Closing Remarks | Problem Set 10 Due |
| Thu 5/07 | Reading Day | |
| Thu 5/14 | Term Paper Final Draft Due by Noon |