PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE

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Discussion and analysis of philosophical readings from classics to contemporary about central issues in philosophy of cognition and the mind/brain. Examination of the problem about the nature of mental states and qualia; general proposals concerning the mind/body problem (dualism, materialism, idealism, functionalism); the knowledge argument; the problem of mental causation; the relation between language and thought; the nature and function of mental representations; perception and intentionality; the problem of consciousness as an emergent phenomenon; the problem about the existence of innate ideas and free will from a neuroscience perspective. Recent issues in the philosophy of mind and machines will be examined: the problem of the possibility of Artificial Intelligence, the argument of the Chinese room, the Turing test and computational complexity. INTD/