Introduction to Mind, Language and Embodied Cognition (HTP) (P02513)

? Credit Points : 10 ? 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. 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

? This course is not available to visting students.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Philosophy, (School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, Schedule I)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

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

? Contact Teaching Time : 1 hour(s) 30 minutes per week for 5 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
30/09/2008	11:00	13:00			3.10 Dugald Stewart Building

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.