Философия когнитивных и нейронаук

2023/2024

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

2

ECTS credits

Delivered by:

School of Philosophy and Cultural Studies

Type:

Elective course

When:

2 year, 1 semester

Instructor

Faul, Bogdan

Course Syllabus

Abstract

This course offers an introduction to contemporary cognitive sciences through a philosophical optics, beginning with the philosophy of mind, progressing through the classical computationalist paradigm, and ending with state-of-the-art approaches based on recent advances in cognitive linguistics and neurological research. In this course, students will be introduced to the latest theoretical literature on the topic and cutting-edge scholarship. The course begins with an introduction to the history of the cognitive sciences and to contemporary philosophy of mind; it then reviews the paradigm of classical computationalism and recent computationalism, which are compared to philosophical functionalism; after that, an introduction is made to the current paradigm of cognitive research: experimentalism, the dynamic paradigm, and 4E-cognition.