Postgraduate Course: Advanced topics in Mind, Language and Embodied Cognition (PHIL11038)
Course Outline
| School | School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course aims to provide an in depth treatment of a single topic or text, usually in the broad area of the study of the embodied mind.
The teaching is seminar based, and each week students prepare by reading and commenting on set work. |
| Course description |
The course will focus on a specific topic or text, for example tackle a classic text (such as Thompson, Varela and Rosch's (1991) The Embodied Mind) or a cutting edge monograph (such as Alva Noe's (2005) Action in Perception). On other occasions, as the interests of students and teachers dictate, it may focus on a single topic within the field, such as sensorimotor accounts of visual consciousness, or the role of language in embodied cognition. More traditional topics concerning mind or language may occasionally be chosen.
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Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 21,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
173 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
One 2500 word essay.
Essay deadline: Thursday 21st April 2016 by 12 noon.
Return deadline: Friday 13th May 2016 |
| Feedback |
- classroom and online discussion of class presentations
- opportunity to receive feedback on detailed essay plan by end of week 10
- Students have the opportunity to submit a formative essay by week 6 deadline on Turnitin via Learn. The essay cannot be draft of summative essay but it can be on the same topic.
Formative essay deadline: Thursday 25th February 2016 by 12 noon
Return deadline: Friday 18th March 2016 |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- develop philosophical skills.
- engage a single target or topic in the kind of sustained depth required for professional publication and research.
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Reading List
Readings will be available on LEARN, and include:
A. D. Milner (1998) Streams and consciousness: visual awareness and the Brain Trends in Cognitive Sciences vol 2: 1: 1998 25-30
Clark, A (2001) Visual Experience and Motor Action: Are the Bonds Too Tight? Philosophical Review 110:4:October 2001
Simons, D and Rensink, R (2005) Change blindness: Past, present and future. In Trends in Cognitive Sciences 9:1:2005:16-20
O'Regan, J.K., & Noë, A. (2001). What it is like to see: A sensorimotor theory of visual experience. Synthese, 129(1), 79-103.
Block, N. (2011) Perceptual consciousness overflows cognitive access. Trends in Cognitive Sciences December 15, 12, 2011, p 567-575
Hurley, S (2001) Perception And Action: Alternative Views Synthese 129, 3-40.
Seth, A. K. (2013). Interoceptive inference, emotion, and the embodied self. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 17(11), 565-73.
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Additional Information
| Course URL |
Please see Learn page |
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Students will learn to conduct research across disciplinary boundaries, and to present their ideas clearly to a multi-disciplinary audience.
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| Additional Class Delivery Information |
The course is taught by Prof Andy Clark. |
| Keywords | perception,action,change-blindnes,sensorimotor contingency theory,dual visual systems hypothesis |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Andrew Clark
Tel: (0131 6)50 3659
Email: |
Course secretary | Miss Lynsey Buchanan
Tel: (0131 6)51 5002
Email: |
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