Postgraduate Course: Introduction to Mind, Language and Embodied Cognition (HTP) (PHIL11053)
Course Outline
| School |
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College |
College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits |
10 |
| Home subject area |
Philosophy |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None |
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| Course description |
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. This course is intended to form part of the MSc in History and Theory of Psychology.
The following lectures will require attendance:
Week 2: Introducing Embodiment
Week 4: Action-oriented representation
Week 5: The Extended Mind
Week 6: Language as a cognitive tool
Week 8: Sensorimotor Accounts of Consciousness |
Entry Requirements
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites |
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| Prohibited Combinations |
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Other requirements |
None
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| Additional Costs |
None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2010/11 Semester 1, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
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Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| Central | Lecture | | 2,4,5,6,8 | | 11:10 - 13:00 | | | |
| First Class |
Week 2, Tuesday, 11:10 - 13:00, Zone: Central. 3.10 Dugald Stewart Building |
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
| One 2000 word essay |
Special Arrangements
| Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser |
Dr Julian Kiverstein
Tel: (0131 6)51 6333
Email: J.Kiverstein@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Miss Lynsey Buchanan
Tel: (0131 6)51 5002
Email: Lynsey.Buchanan@ed.ac.uk |
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