Philosophy of cognitive science

Location: LG33 Learning Centre

Time: 12:00 Tuesday

Lectures and lecture notes:

Week

Guest Lecturer

Topic

1

Shan He

Introduction to the module: slides and handout

2

Shan He

Evolution and collective cognition: slides and handout

3

Manfred Kerber

Why is the Lucas-Penrose Argument Invalid? slides

4

Aaron Sloman

What's vision for, in animals and robots? slides

5

Peter Coxhead

Whether the concept of a "zombie", used in many arguments about strong AI, is in fact coherent. slides

6

Nick Hawes

Intelligence and Representation. slides

7

Aaron Sloman

Architectures for more or less intelligent life

8

Jeremy Wyatt

Mind-Body problems and AI. Handout

9

Andrew Howes

A View on Rationality and its Role in Understanding

Human Behavior. slides

10

John Barden

TBF

 

For Antoni Diller's handouts, please visit http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~ard/modules/pcs/pcs.html