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Fall 2003

Instructor: Dr. M. Guarini
Office: 2184 CHN
Office Hours: TBA
E-mail: mguarini@uwindsor.ca
Phone: (519) 253-3000, x2345
 
 

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Required Readings

The following texts are the required readings for the course.  Most are available in a Course Pack that may be purchased from Document Services.  Required readings not available in the Course Pack are available on line or on reserve.

• Cummins, Robert, and John Pollock.  1991.  “Introduction,” in Philosophy and AI: Essays at the Interface, Cummins and Pollock, editors, pp. 1-6.  MIT Press.
   

• Ford, Kenneth, Clark Glymour, and Patrick J. Hayes.  1995.  “A Prehistory of Android Epistemology,” in Android Epistemology, Ford, Glymour, and Hayes, editors, pp. 3-21.  MIT Press.
   

• Haugeland, John.  1997. “What is Mind Design?” in Mind Design II, Haugeland, editor, pp. 1-28.  MIT Press.
   

• Churchland, Patricia.  2002.  “An Introduction to Epistemology,” in Brain Wise, pp. 241-319 (of  471pages).  MIT Press.
   

• Copeland, Jack. 1993.  Chapters 4 and 5 in Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Introduction, pp. 58-120.  MIT Press.
   

• Horgan, Terence, and John Tienson.  1999.  “Short Précis of Connectionism and the Philosophy of Psychology,” Acta Analytica, vol. 22, pp. 9-21.
   

• Fodor, Jerry, and Zenon Pylyshyn.  Connectionism and Cognitive Architecture: A Critical Analysis.  On reserve.
   

• Ramsey, William.  1992.  “Connectionism and the Philosophy of Mental Representation,” in “Connectionism: Theory and Practice,” Steven Davis, editor, vol. 3 in Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science, pp. 247-276.  New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
   

• Fauconnier, Gilles.  2001.  “Conceptual Blending and Analogy,” in The Analogical Mind: Perspectives from Cognitive Science, Gentner, Dedre, K.J. Holyoak, and B.N. Kokinov, editors, pp. 255-285.  MIT Press.
   

• Copeland, Jack.  2000.  “Narrow Versus Wide Mechanism: Including a Re-examination of Turing’s Views on the Mind-Machine Issue,” The Journal of Philosophy, vol. XCVI, no. 1., pp. 5-32.
   

• Pollock, John L., and Joseph Cruz.  1999.  “Chapter Six: Epistemology and Rationality,” in Contemporary Theories of Knowledge, second edition, Pollock and Cruz, editors, pp. 152-190.  Roman and Littlefield.
   

• Preston, Beth.  1993.  “Heidegger and Artificial Intelligence,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. LIII, no. 1, pp. 43-69.