- Course Code
- PSS503
- Semester
- First Term (Fall)
- Theory+Practice
- 3 + 0
- ECTS
- 8
| Course Type | Compulsory Course |
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| Course Level | Master's Degree With Thesis |
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| Year of Study | 1 |
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| Semester | First Term (Fall) |
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| ECTS | 8 |
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| Name of Lecturer(s) |
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| Learning Outcomes |
At the end of this course, the students;
- Gain knowledge about the main problems of philosophy of mind.
- Gain knowledge about the main schools that influence philosophy of mind and how these schools affect scientific world.
- Gain skill to think and criticize methodologically and to give their own interpretations to philosophical problems.
- Learn how to connect philosophy and psychology especially via learning more about artificial intelligence and neuroscience.
- Gain skill to look at the problems in their own field and lives from a different perspective.
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| Prerequisites | No |
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| Recommended Optional Programme Components | Yok |
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| Course Description | This course focuses on the fundamental topics in the philosophy of mind such as the nature of the mind and cognitive processes and ?the mind-body problem? that concerns the relation between the mind and the body, especially the brain. The course covers both classic and contemporary approaches to the nature of the mind including dualism, materialism, introspectionism, behaviorism, functionalism, subjectivism, instrumentalism, computationalism, connectionism and dynamical systems approaches. The course will also examine some fundamental questions that arise in the philosophy of mind: Are the mind and the brain one and the same thing? Can the mental processes be reduced to the brain processes? Does the mind work like a computer? Is the mind a ?software? that runs on the ?hardware? of the brain? Do animals have minds? Can a robot or a computer have a mind? |
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| Course Contents |
| WEEK |
TOPICS |
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1st Week |
Introduction |
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2nd Week |
Dualism: The Mind-Body Problem |
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3rd Week |
Materialism and Functionalism |
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4th Week |
Philosophical Behaviorism |
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5th Week |
Folk Psychology and Intentionality |
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6th Week |
The problem of other minds |
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7th Week |
The problem of self-consciousness |
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8th Week |
Idealism and Phenomenology |
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9th Week |
Methodological Behaviorism and Materialism |
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10th Week |
Cognitive/Computational Approach |
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11th Week |
Artificial Intelligence and Parallel Distributed Processing |
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12th Week |
Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neurobiology I |
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13th Week |
Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neurobiology II |
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14th Week |
Distributed Intelligence in the Universe and Introspective Consciousness |
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15th Week |
Integration and Review Session |
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| Recommended or Required Reading | Churchland, P.M. (1988). Matter and consciousness: A contemporary introduction to the philosophy of mind. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
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| Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods |
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| Assessment Methods and Criteria |
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Quantity |
Percentage (%) |
| Assignment |
4 |
60 |
| Project |
1 |
30 |
| Total(%) |
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90 |
| Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) |
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90 |
| Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) |
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10 |
| Total(%) |
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100 |
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| ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload |
| Activities |
Quantity |
Duration (Hour) |
Total Workload (Hour) |
| Midterm exam |
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| Preparation for Quiz |
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| Individual or group work |
14 |
4 |
56 |
| Preparation for Final exam |
1 |
10 |
10 |
| Course hours |
15 |
3 |
45 |
| Preparation for Midterm exam |
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| Laboratory (including preparation) |
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| Final exam |
1 |
1 |
1 |
| Homework |
4 |
28 |
112 |
| Project |
1 |
15 |
15 |
| Total Work Load | 239 |
| Total Work Load / 30 (h) | 7.96 |
| ECTS Credit of the Course | 8 |
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| Language of Instruction | - |
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| Work Placement(s) | No |
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