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Philosophy - Cognitive Science

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By: Vilma Bejer Kristiansen
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Philosophical Foundations
Learning
28  cards
Science, Non-science and Pseudoscience
Science wuhooo
19  cards
Demarcation of science: Logical Positivism
Understanding how logical positivism separates meaningful from meaningless sentences ● Understanding the implications for philosophy, science and especially, psychology (a component of cognitive science) ● Understanding the problems facing logical positivism, e.g. verification of general sentences and the Quine-Duhem thesis
19  cards
Demarcation of Science: Falsification
Karl Popper
11  cards
Demarcation of Science: Paradigms
Understanding Kuhn’s idea of paradigms and paradigm shifts 2) Understanding why paradigms may be incommensurable 3) Capability to reflect on what amounts to truth
16  cards
Behaviourism
Understanding how behaviourism is an externalist paradigm 2) Understanding what operant conditioning is, and how it differs from classical conditioning 3) Understanding the connection to empiricism and logical positivism 4) Being able to critically reflect on the assumptions of behaviourism 5) Being able to see how behaviourism is still relevant today
15  cards
Computationalism
Understanding the intellectual history leading to the cognitive revolution 2) Understanding the assumptions of computationalism 3) Understanding what (mental) representations are 4) Understanding David Marr’s three levels of analysis
25  cards
Critique of Computationalism
Understanding the impact of the Chinese Room Argument 2) Understanding the Symbol Grounding Problem 3) Understanding the different levels of Turing indistinguishability 4) Ability to critically reflect on the scope of the Chinese Room argument.
22  cards
Connectionism
Understanding the limitations of the computationalist paradigm seen from the connectionist paradigm 2) Being able to reflect on the values of thought experiments 3) Understanding how neural networks work on a broad level 4) Understanding how semantic content may emerge from the network, i.e. how symbols may get grounded
16  cards
Predictive Processing
Predictive processing claim that,
What is the belief that the brain...,
Predictive processin exploring th...
19  cards
Consciousness
Are there minds according to beha...,
Are there minds according to comp...,
Are there minds according to conn...
23  cards

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