Postgraduate course 2023/2024

Философия когнитивных и нейронаук

Type: Elective course

Area of studies: Postgraduate Studies

Delivered by: School of Philosophy and Cultural Studies

When: 2 year, 1 semester

Mode of studies: offline

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Bogdan Faul

Language: English

ECTS credits: 2

Contact hours: 32

Course Syllabus

Abstract

This course offers an introduction to contemporary cognitive sciences through a philosophical optics, beginning with the philosophy of mind, progressing through the classical computationalist paradigm, and ending with state-of-the-art approaches based on recent advances in cognitive linguistics and neurological research. In this course, students will be introduced to the latest theoretical literature on the topic and cutting-edge scholarship. The course begins with an introduction to the history of the cognitive sciences and to contemporary philosophy of mind; it then reviews the paradigm of classical computationalism and recent computationalism, which are compared to philosophical functionalism; after that, an introduction is made to the current paradigm of cognitive research: experimentalism, the dynamic paradigm, and 4E-cognition.