Psych 273: Semantic

Psych 273: Semantic Cognition
Autumn 2007

Meeting: Tuesdays 3:15-5:05 in 420-102
Instructors: Jay McClelland (office hours by appointment in 420-344) and Lera Boroditsky, office hours Thursdays 2-3pm in 420-300

Schedule of class meetings & assignments:

09/25 - Philosophical Background 1

10/02 - Philosophical Background 2 (Karola)

Fodor: Against Definitions
Cowie: The Case Against Empiricism

10/09 - Frameworks & Structures

Minsky: Frames
Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition
Markman: Structured Conceptual Representations

10/16 - Symbolic & Distributed Approaches

Fodor & Pylyshyn: Connectionism and Cogntive Architecture: A Critical Analysis
McClelland: Can Connectionist Models Discover the Structure of Natural Language?
Brandsford, Barclay, & Franks: Sentence Memory

10/23 - Prototypes, Exemplars, and Similarity (Anubha)

Wittgenstein: Paragraphs 66-78 from Philosophical Investigations
Rosch: Principles of Categorization
Medin & Schaeffer: Context Theory of Classification Learning

10/30 - Theory Theory part 1 (Daniel)

Carey & Spelke: Domain Specific Knowledge and Conceptual Change
Murphy & Medin: The Role of Theories in Conceptual Coherence
Keil: The Emergence of Theoretical Beliefs as Constraints on Concepts

11/06 - Theory Theory part 2 (Jeremy)

Rogers & McClelland: Precis of Semantic Cognition: A Paral lel Distributed Processing Approach

11/13 - Perceptual Grounding/Embodiment (Steve)

Barsalou et al: Grounding conceptual knowledge in modality-specific systems
Boroditsky & Prinz: What thoughts are made of

11/27 - Language and Culture (Nola)

12/04 - Use, Change, Context (Scott)

Duff et al: Development of shared information in communication despite hippocampal amnesia
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Anaphora