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Introduction to Mind, Language and Embodied Cognition (P01752)

? Credit Points : 20  ? SCQF Level : 11  ? Acronym : PPL-P-VTPHILIEC

This course offers an integrated, critical review of philosophical and cognitive scientific approaches to understanding mind, language, and embodied cognition. It aims to give students a sense both of recent developments and of the large-scale intellectual landscape. A special focus is the increasingly popular conception of mind as essentially "embodied and embedded". According to this conception, thought and reason are in some way inextricably tied to the details of our gross bodily form, our abilities of action and intervention, and the enabling web of social, cultural, and technological scaffolding in which we live, move, learn and think.

Venue: 9.18 David Hume Tower
Submission: 14 December 2007, 4.00 pm

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2)

? Contact Teaching Time : 1 hour(s) 30 minutes per week for 11 weeks

First Class Information

Date Start End Room Area Additional Information
18/09/2007 11:00 13:00 Room 9.18, David Hume Tower Central

All of the following classes

Type Day Start End Area
Lecture Tuesday 11:10 13:00 Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

The course aims to develop student's philosophical skills and their knowledge of the main issues and debates surrounding mind, language and embodied cognition. The teaching is seminar based, and each week students prepare by reading set work.

Assessment Information

2500 word essay.

Contact and Further Information

The Course Secretary should be the first point of contact for all enquiries.

Course Secretary

Miss Toni Noble
Tel : (0131 6)51 3188
Email : Toni.noble@ed.ac.uk

Course Organiser

Prof Andrew Clark
Tel : (0131 6)50 3659
Email : Andy.Clark@ed.ac.uk

School Website : http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/

College Website : http://www.hss.ed.ac.uk/

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