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- Overview
- This course is a special topics
offering. It is open to both graduate students and serious, senior
undergraduate students. While specific university courses in math
or science are not prerequisites, it is assumed that students taking
this course will be willing to learn some computational neural modeling
so that we can philosophize about this subject matter. The course
is open to both philosophy of majors and non-philosophy majors.
Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
- Since computational neural modeling is a science, much of this
course will be a specialized philosophy of science course. We
will be examining issues in mental representation, the empirical
assumptions at work in some traditional views of representations,
and what neural modeling may or may not have to offer in terms of a
better understanding representation. (You could see this as
philosophy of mind as well, as long as it is understood as
philosophy of mind pursued as a branch of the philosophy of
science.)
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- How we understand representation has implications for a number
of ongoing discussions in philosophy. Part of this course will
examine what the impacts of the philosophy of computational neural
modeling might be on other areas of philosophy (for example, the
philosophy of science more generally and the philosophy of ethics).
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