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 Plato: Meno Locke: Book 1, Chapter 1 of ECHU Locke: Book 2, Chapters 2-12 of ECHU Quine: Two Dogmas of Empiricism 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) Medin: Culture & Concepts Levinson: Language and Space Boroditsky: Linguistic Relativity 12/04 - Use, Change, Context (Scott) Duff et al: Development of shared information in communication despite hippocampal amnesia Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Anaphora Free counter
Schedule of class meetings & assignments: 09/25 - Philosophical Background 1 Plato: Meno Locke: Book 1, Chapter 1 of ECHU Locke: Book 2, Chapters 2-12 of ECHU Quine: Two Dogmas of Empiricism 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) Medin: Culture & Concepts Levinson: Language and Space Boroditsky: Linguistic Relativity 12/04 - Use, Change, Context (Scott) Duff et al: Development of shared information in communication despite hippocampal amnesia Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Anaphora Free counter
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