180144 KO MEi:CogSci Philosophy Discussion (2015S)
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max. 25 participants
Language: English
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Aims, contents and method of the course
What is philosophy? What do philosophers do? And how do they do it? These are some of the questions which will be addressed in this course. The course is designed as a topics-based introduction to philosophy, i.e. instead of working through the history of philosophy focusing on historical figures and their views on different topics, we will focus on special philosophical tools and how to apply them to topics such as consciousness, cognition, mental causation and free will, artificial 'intelligence', epistemology and the scientific method, science ethics, etc.
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Heighten participants awareness of the (often implicit) philosophical bases of their own and others' disciplines and work; foster their ability to apply some of the philosophical methods to their own work (and life); and a thorough understanding of the core topics discussed in the course, especially those which are relevant for cognitive science and the behavioural sciences in general.
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