Postgraduate Course: Introduction to Mind, Language and Embodied Cognition (PHIL11037)
Course Outline
School | School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
Summary | This course offers an integrated, critical review of philosophical and cognitive scientific approaches to understanding mind, language, and embodied cognition.
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Course description |
The course aims to give students a sense both of recent developments and of the large-scale intellectual landscape in mind, language and embodied cognition. 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.
The teaching is seminar based, and each week students prepare by reading set work.
Please note the course is only available to students taking for credit, not auditing.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites | None |
High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- engage in rich interdisciplinary discussion that includes philosophy, psychology, neuroscience and computer science
- use empirical literature in a philosophical context
- develop their philosophical skills and their knowledge of the main issues and debates surrounding embodied cognition.
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Reading List
Some introductory Background reading:
Clark, A. (2001). Mindware: An Introduction to Cognitive Science. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Clark, A. (2008). Supersizing the Mind. Oxford University Press, Oxford. |
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Reading, understanding and critically engaging with complex texts; critical thinking; constructive oral engagement; essay writing. Interdisciplinary thinking |
Keywords | cognitive science,embodiment,mind,language,consciousness |
Contacts
Course organiser | Dr Tillman Vierkant
Tel: (0131 6)51 3748
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Course secretary | Miss Sabina Ali
Tel: (0131 6) 50 4400
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