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This course introduces students to traditional and
current topics in philosophy of mind and
cognition. The first part of the course is devoted to
the mind-body problem and classical
responses to it like dualism, identity theory, and
functionalism. The second part deals with
two characteristic features of mind: intentionality and
consciousness. Accounts to be
discussed include representationalism and the
computer model of mind, connectionism and
neural networks, theories of mental content, theories
of phenomenal consciousness.
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