Cognitive Science 0108 - Introduction to Philosophy
Spring
2013
1
4.00
Jonathan Westphal
10:30AM-11:50AM M,W
Hampshire College
310464
Adele Simmons Hall 222
jgwCS@hampshire.edu
This course is an introduction to philosophy concentrating on the skills necessary to evaluate philosophical claims about minds, brains and information. Topics will be chosen from the following: language, sentences, and logic; meaning, reference and thought; relativism and theories of truth; personal identity, the self and the brain; knowledge and belief; consciousness and the neural correlates of consciousness; dreaming and skepticism; materialism or physicalism, concepts and the mind-body problem; freewill and neurological determinism.
Mind, Brain, and Information Independent Work This philosophy course is oriented towards the Mind, Brain and Information distribution area.