Thursday, September 27, 2012

Mike G's Consultation

I will be available from 10am.

I am marking
Leishka
Misha
Sandile
and JGR

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Thought paper for week 8.

What is the colour phi phenomenon and what does Dennet think it tells us about consciousness?

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Thought Paper Topic for Seminar 7 on 11 Sep 2012


The thought paper topic for Seminar 7 is as follows:

What is the example of colour supposed to teach us about the embodied nature of mind?

Readings for Seminar 7 on 11 September 2012


The readings for Seminar 7 on 11 September are now available from the Main Office (U211).

There are three readings: Varela, Thompson & Rosch (1993), Lakoff & Johnson (1999), and Clark (1997).

As the readings are quite lengthy, I would strongly advise you to collect them as soon as possible.

In the Varela, Thompson & Rosch reading, you can (if necessary) ignore the section called ‘Self-organization Revisited (pp151-157) (although it should make some more sense to you after you have read the Clark (1997) reading); and you can also ignore the section on Heideggerian Psychoanalysis (pp179-180).

Saturday, August 18, 2012

Thought Paper for Seminar 5

The thought paper topic for Seminar 5 on Tuesday 21 Aug is:

What, according to Damasio, does it mean to have the feeling of an emotion? In what sense is this account an embodied account of emotion and feeling?

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Further reading - EP

As mentioned in class, some of the EP authors we have been reading are very generous in what they make available over the Internet. For your interest (and in case you are thinking of writing your first paper in this area), here are useful links in this regard:

Cosmides & Tooby:
http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/publist.htm

Buss:
http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/group/busslab/publications.htm

Thought Paper Topic for Seminar 4

The thought paper topic for Seminar 4 on Tuesday 14 Aug is:

Are Cosmides and Tooby right in thinking that our (superior) performance on cheater-detection tasks is best explained by a specialised cheater-detection module? Or might our performance instead be some kind of artifact based on a distinctive logic or structure in these tasks?