Seminar on Mind, Language and Cognitive Science
February 2005, University of Iceland, Reykjavik for SC01 Seminaire interdisciplinaire de sciences et technologies cognitives at UTC
Papers studied
(1) Language and Mind: Basic Concepts
- Function and Concept, Fredge, Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Fredge
- On Sense and Meaning, Fredge, Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Fredge
- Bedrock, Guttenplan, An essay on Mind
(2) Classical Cognitive Science I: The computer metaphor and levels of explanation
- Computer Science as an empirical inquiry: Symbols and Search, Newell and Simon
- Philosophy and the approach, David Marr, chapter 1 of Vision, 1982
(3) Classical Cognitive Science II: Symbolic systems and representation
- Why there still has to be a language of thought, Fodor, Mind and Cognition, Lycan ed.
- Connectionnism and cognitive architecture: a criticial analysis, Fodor and Pylyshyn
- Intelligence without representation, Brooks
(4) Reduction as a Theoretical Ideal in the Sciences
- Reduction of theories, E. Nagel, The Structure of Science
- Is consciousness a brain process?. Place. The Mind-Brain Identity Theory
- Eliminative materialism and the propositional attitudes, Churchland, Journal of Philosophy, 1981
- What is it like to be a bat?, T. Nagel, Philosophical Review, 1974
- The explanatory gap, Levine, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 1983
(5) Materialism and the Reduction of the Mental
- Material mind, Davidson, Essays on Actions and Events
(6) Philosophy of Mind: Indeterminacy and Mental States
- Translation and meaning, Quine, chapter 2 of Word and Object
- On the reasons for indeterminacy of translations, Quine, The journal of Philosophy, 1970
- Indeterminacy, empiricism and the first person, Searle, The journal of Philosophy, 1987
- Indeterminacy and mental states, Follesdal, Perspective on Quine, Barret & Gibson ed.
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- not present in the original listing
(8) Cognitive Theory and Virtual Reality
- Ecological optics, J.J. Gibson Foundations of Cognitive Science: The Essential Reader
- The theory of affordances, J.J. Gibson, chapter 8 of An Ecological Approach of Perception
- How direct is visual perception? Some reflections on Gibsons ecological approach, Fodor and Pylypshyn, Cognition, 1981
- Where brain, body and world collide, Clark, Deadalus, 1998
- How a cockpit remembers its speed, Hutchins, Cognitive Science, 1995
(9) Linguistic Competence and Cognition
- Methodological preliminaries, Chomsky, chapter Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
- Language and nature, Chomsky, Mind, 1995
- Grammar, psychology, and indeterminacy, Stich, Journal of Philosophy, 1972
- Meaning, grammar, and indeterminacy, Neale, Dialectica, 1987
- Some notes on what linguistics is about, Fodor, Readings in the Philosophy of Psychology
See also
- other UTC class SC22
- more general page Cognition.Cognition
To do
- add icons papers/books (eventually make a CustomMarkup)
- add notes per paper
- add other courses
- SC02
