UNSW Handbook Course - Foundations of Cognitive Science

Foundations of Cognitive Science - HPSC5200


	Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
	School: School of History and Philosophy
	Course Outline: http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/hps/
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Postgraduate
	Units of Credit: 8
	EFTSL: 0.167 (more info)
	Contact Hours per Week: 2
	Fee Band: 1 (more info)
	Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

Intended to introduce and provide an overview of foundational issues in the interdisciplinary field of Cognitive Science. The field includes psychology, artificial intelligence, linguistics, neuroscience and philosophy. Topics include: philosophy of mind and psychology from Plato, Aristotle and Descartes to the present; neural nets, finite automata and Turing Machines; Godel's Theorem, mechanism and the mind - can a computer be conscious?; Chomsky's revolution - rediscovering the mind; from behaviourism to mentalism; representation, symbols and intentionality - the Language of Thought; classical symbolic AI or connectionist neural nets?

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