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Your search for courses · during 24FA, 25WI, 25SP · taught by jdecker · returned 6 results
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CGSC 130 What Minds Are What They Do 6 credits
An interdisciplinary examination of issues concerning the mind and mental phenomena. The course will draw on work from diverse fields such as artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, philosophy, linguistics, anthropology, and neuroscience. Topics to be discussed include: the mind-body problem, embodied cognition, perception, representation, reasoning, and learning.
- Fall 2024
- SI, Social Inquiry WR2 Writing Requirement 2
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CGSC 130.00 Fall 2024
- Faculty:Jason Decker 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THHulings 316 10:10am-11:55am
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CGSC 396 Comps Proposal in Cognitive Studies 3 credits
Senior majors in cognitive studies will work with the instructor to develop a thesis proposal for their comps project.
- Fall 2024
- No Exploration
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Student has completed all of the following course(s): CGSC 130 and PSYC 200/201 and CGSC/PSYC 232 and CGSC/PSYC 233 with a grade of C- or better and is a senior CGSC major.
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CGSC 400 Integrative Exercise 3 credits
Students will complete their Cognitive Science comps projects, in response to feedback from their comps advisor. Students will also give a public presentation of their comps project to a Carleton audience.
- Second Five Weeks, Fall 2024, Spring 2025
- No Exploration
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Student is a Cognitive Science major and has Senior Priority.
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IDSC 250 Color! 6 credits
If you had to explain to a blind person the nature of color, how would you describe it? Is it a property of objects, oscillations of an electric field, a feature of how the eye generates electrochemical signals to send to the brain, or perhaps a property of the experiences themselves? This team-taught course takes a multidisciplinary approach to color, drawing from physics, psychology, and philosophy. We will explore topics such as the nature of light, visual anatomy, the process by which light is converted to a neural code, color mixing, linguistic differences in color processing, and how color leads us to confront the tension that sometimes exists between appearance and reality.
- Winter 2025
- No Exploration
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): One Introductory PHIL or PSYC course higher than 110 or One Introductory PHYS course higher than 130 with a grade of C- or better.
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PHIL 116 Sensation, Induction, Abduction, Deduction, Seduction 6 credits
In every academic discipline, we make theories and argue for and against them. This is as true of theology as of geology (and as true of phys ed as of physics). What are the resources we have available to us in making these arguments? It’s tempting to split the terrain into (i) raw data, and (ii) rules of right reasoning for processing the data. The most obvious source of raw data is sense experience, and the most obvious candidates for modes of right reasoning are deduction, induction, and abduction. Some philosophers, however, think that sense perception is only one of several sources of raw data (perhaps we also have a faculty of pure intuition or maybe a moral sense), and others have doubted that we have any source of raw data at all. As for the modes of “right” reasoning, Hume famously worried about our (in)ability to justify induction, and others have had similar worries about abduction and even deduction. Can more be said on behalf of our most strongly held beliefs and belief-forming practices than simply that we find them seductive—that we are attracted to them; that they resonate with us? In this course, we’ll use some classic historical and contemporary philosophical texts to help us explore these and related issues.
- Winter 2025
- HI, Humanistic Inquiry WR2 Writing Requirement 2
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PHIL 116.00 Winter 2025
- Faculty:Jason Decker 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 305 3:10pm-4:55pm
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PHIL 210 Logic 6 credits
The study of formal logic has obvious and direct applicability to a wide variety of disciplines (including mathematics, computer science, linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science, and many others). Indeed, the study of formal logic helps us to develop the tools and know-how to think more clearly about arguments and logical relationships in general; and arguments and logical relationships form the backbone of any rational inquiry. In this course we will focus on propositional logic and predicate logic, and look at the relationship that these have to ordinary language and thought.
- Spring 2025
- FSR, Formal or Statistical Reasoning
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PHIL 210.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty:Jason Decker 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 233 9:40am-10:40am