25905 - Philosophy and social sciences
301 - Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas
Basic Education
5.3. Syllabus
INTRODUCTION: The phylosophy of mind. Authors and problems
ITEM 1- Descartes and Dualism
Meditation and reflection
The Method
From ontology to epistemology
Self and thought. Res cogitans
The body and matter. Res extensa
Reason and conscience. The Cartesian Theatre
ITEM 2- The Ghost in the machine- Logical Behaviorism
Official doctrine: matter and consciousnes
Categorical error
Know how and know what
Propositional attitudes
Psychological Behaviorism abd Logical Behaviorism
ITEM 3- Phenomenology. Intentionality. Self-consciousness
Intentionality in Husserl and Brentano
The First Person Perspective
Intentional experience
Reflectivity
Intuition and Evidence: the primary character of consciousness
Pshycological and Phylosophical aspects of Phenomenology
Current formulations: Phenomenology and Cognitive Sciences
ITEM 4- Materialism. Paul and Patricial Churchland
Materialistic theories of the mind
Concept of reduction between theories
Importance and limits of folk psychology
Neurophysiological eliminativism
Neuroscience
Unified Science
ITEM 5- Functionalism I: the language of thought. Jerry Fodor
Mental States as funtions
Representational and syntactic computing
The language of thought
The Folk Psychology
Other minds
ITEM 6- Functionalism II: Consciousness explained. Daniel Dennett.
Intentionality
Heterophenomenology
The scientific solution to the problem of the consciousness
Multiple drafts
Freedom and physicalism
Virtuality of the self
ITEM 7: Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science
Brief history
Minds and machines
Process information
Rules, concepts, analogies and images
Connectionists networks
ITEM 8- Emrgentism John Searle
The strong and weak artificial intelligence
The semantics to syntax
The Chinese Room argument
Subjectivity, mental causation, freedom
Construction of social reality
ITEM 9- The Cultural Extension of the Mind. Jerome Bruner.
Mind and Culture
Computational theory and cultural theory of mind
The construction of meaning
The perspective of the self. Narrations.
Cultural diversity
Cultura and Education
ITEM 10: Neuroscience and Phylosophy. Antonio Damasio.
Neuroscience: neurological bases of mental processes
The error of Descartes feelings and emotions in the human consciousness
The mind as and a "idea" of the body
The person and the self: Neural bases
Impact Social and Educational
Neuroscience and ethics