Cognitive Science

Understand how the disciplines constitutive of cognitive science attempt to collaborate in theorizing the mind.

Understand and apply foundational concepts to the discipline: mind as computer, intelligence as computing, language processing, problem solving.

Analyze foundational philosophical questions: What is the mind? What is the relation of mind to body? What does it mean to be intelligent? What does it mean to be conscious?

Understand and apply some basics of modern computing (e.g. computational languages, software construction, robotics architectures).

Understand and evaluate basic computational architectures employed in attempts to build artificial intelligence (e.g. classical vs. connectionist computational approaches).

Understand and analyze basic concepts in linguistics, such as the distinction between syntax vs. semantics and its importance to attempts to build AI.

Achieve some basic competence in methods from at least one of the experimental disciplines that make up cognitive science: AI technologies, computer languages and programming, methods in behavioral and cognitive psychology, methods in neuroscientific research, methods in anthropology, methods of linguistic study, etc.