FPF:UINK341 Cognitive Science - Course Information

UINK341 Cognitive Science

Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Winter 2016

Extent and Intensity

6/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

prof. RNDr. Jozef Kelemen, DrSc. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

Course objectives

Put into the issue of Cognitive Science.

Syllabus

Introduction and the history of cognitive science. Thinking from the perspective of logics, psychology, linguistics, pedagogics, and artificial intelligence. Newell's and Simon's hypothesis of the symbol systems as a necessary and sufficient condition of the intelligence. Knowledge representation from the perspective of cognitive science, the representation schemata. Other approaches. Knowledge based and expert systems from the perspective of cognitive science. Robotics from the same perspective. The mind/body problem. The problem of consciousness - Searle's paradox of the Chinese room. The problem of consciousness - the Dennett's view. Minsky's society theory of the mind. Chalmer's dualism. The emergence of the mind. Decentralization and connectionism, and the (artificial) neural nets from the perspective of cognitive science. Resume.

Literature

required literature

Rybár, J. a kol. Kognitívne vedy. Kalligram, Bratislava, 2002. info
Thagard, P. Úvod do kognitivní vědy. Portál, Praha, 2001. info
Wilson, R., Keil, F. The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Science. The MIT Press, Cambridge, 1999. info
Thagard, P. (ed.). Mind Readings. The MIT Press, Cambridge, 1998. info
Pstružina, K. Svět poznávání - k filozofickým základům kognitivní vědy. Vydavatelství Olomouc, Olomouc, 1998. info
Dennett, D.C. Druhy myslí. ARCHA, Bratislava,, 1997. info
Minsky, M. Konštrukcia mysle. ARCHA, Bratislava,, 1996. info
Chomsky, N. Jazyk a zodpovednost. ARCHA, Bratislava,, 1995. info
Flanagan, O. Vedomie. ARCHA, Bratislava,, 1995. info
Searle, J. Mysl, mozek a věda. Mladá Fronta, Praha, 1994. info
Kelemen, J. Strojovia a agenty. ARCHA, Bratislava,, 1994. info
Gál, G., Kelemen, J. (zost.). Mysel, telo, stroj. Bradlo, Bratislava, 1992. info
Stillings, N. A. et al. Cognitive Science - An Introduction. The MIT Press, Cambridge, 1987. info
Minsky, M. The Society of Mind. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1986. info

Teaching methods

Interactive lecture
Lecture with a video analysis

Assessment methods

Exam

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.

Teacher's information

* 75% attendance in course, active participation
* success rate of 70 % from written test, 30 % oral exam