Phil* 3180
Philosophy of Mind
Winter 2010
University of Guelph MACK 226 Mon. Wed. & Fri. 12:30-1:20 Stefan Linquist Office MACK 358 Hours Wed. 1:30-2:30, Fri. 11:30-12:30 Course Materials Final Exam Questions Syllabus (pdf) First essay topic Notes on Clark, chapters 1-3 ` Second essay topic Third Essay Topic Example papers 1 & 2 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Online reading _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Interesting
Links
Here is a presentation by buddhist Alan Watts, who says some interesting things about the nonexistence of self and other themes discussed in The Embodied Mind (parts 1, 2 & 3) Talk by Rodney Brooks on How Robots will Invade our Lives. This provides a look at recent developments in the Brooks lab since the publication of Embodied Mind. A Video Essay on Rodney Brooks, discussing the idea of antirepresentationalist cognitive science, sumbsumption architecture, and other important concepts introduced in the Embodied Mind. Johnh Searle Lectures 1. Strong Artificial Intelligence. 2. The Chinese Room Argument. 3. Can a Machine Think? Robots: The Big Dog robot and its humanoid cousin. An amazing video of an interactive virtual world containing characters who read your expressions Robots that express emotion and could (allegedly) one day expereince empathy. |
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