WEEK

DATE

BIO

PHILO

PSYCH

Week 1

9/9

Origin of species

Intro and Overview

9/10

Diversity of Life

9/11

Origin of species

Classical/Instr conditioning

9/14

Functions & functional explanation

Instrumental Conditioning /Behavior Modification

9/15a

Microevolution/speciation

9/15b

Sniffy

Week 2

9/16

Design space

Learning wrap-up

9/17

Evolution of cells

9/18

Descartes & dualism

Sociobio

9/21

Mind-Body problem

Sniffy paper

Catch-up

9/22a

Evolution (photosyn)

9/22b

Dawkins software

Week 3

9/23

Semantic, Epistemological, & Methodological Problems ESSAY DUE

Psychopath

9/24

Evolutionary History

9/25

Standard Social Science View of the Mind

Psychotherapy

9/28

Computational View: Symbols

MIDTERM 1

9/29a

Neurons

9/29b

Mind of Murder

Week 4

9/30

Computational View: Connectionism

Neurons

10/1

Nervous coordination

10/2

Innate structures I

Brain & Behavior

10/5

Innate structures II

Sensation

10/6a

Sensory systems

10/6b

Human sensation lab

Week 5

10/7

Innate structures III

Perception

10/8

Circulation

10/9

Computational Theory of Vision

PAPER

Motivation & Emotion

10/12

MIDTERM BREAK

MIDTERM BREAK

MIDTERM BREAK

10/13a

Gas exchange

10/13b

Neurobiology of Depression

Week 6

10/14

Do Emotions have a Function? ESSAY DUE

Memory & Attention

10/15

Immune System

10/16

Is there a math module?

Eyewitness

10/19

Is there a language module?

Language

10/20a

Osmotic regulation

10/20b

Recognizing self

Week 7

10/21

Kin selection I

Thinking/reasoning

10/22

Osmotic reg/Excretion

10/23

Kin selection II

Intelligence 1

10/26

Mate selection

Intelligence 2

10/27a

Reproduction 1

10/27b

Neisser discussion

Week 8

10/28

Man who mistook his wife

MIDTERM 2

10/29

Reproduction 2

10/30

OPEN

Personality assessment

11/2

Man and Woman

Freud

11/3a

Chemical Communication

11/3b

The five sexes

Week 9

11/4

Gender Trouble

Social cognition

11/5

Cellular Communication

11/6

Renaturalizing the Body

Social interaction

11/9

Tale of Two Bodies

Cognitive Dev

11/10a

Development 1

11/10b

Genie film

Week10

11/11

Corporeal Archetypes

Soc Dev

11/12

Development 2

11/13

open

Catch up

FINAL PAPER

FINAL EXAM