Minor Neurophilosophy

Coordinators: Pim Haselager (Donders, w.haselager@donders.ru.nl) & Leon de Bruin (Philosophy, lcdebruin@gmail.com)

Hosting Departments: Cognitive Neuroscience, Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence

Introduction:
This minor enables students to deepen their philosophical understanding of cognitive neuroscience, its foundations and implications. There are two versions of the minor: a ‘basic’ version, which consists of 15 ECs, and an ‘extended’ version, which consists of 30 ECs.

For the basic minor, no more than 2 philosophy of mind and language courses can be selected (max 12 ECs). For the extended version, no more than 3 philosophy of mind and language courses can be selected (max 18 ECs).

Overview of courses per period:

Period 1

• FTR-FIRM-ML-01 Philosophy of Mind and Language - Human communication: social and cognitive perspectives (6 ECs)

Period 2

• FTR-FIRM-ML-03 Philosophy of Mind and Language - Language and cognition (6 ECs)

Period 3

• FTR-FIRM-ML-04 Philosophy of Mind and Language - Cognitive ontologies, commonsense and neuroscience (6 ECs)
• SOW-DGCN03 Neurophilosophy (continues in period 4, for a total of 6 ECs)
• SOW-MKI40 Cognition and Complexity (continues in period 4, for a total of 6 ECs)

Period 4

• FTR-FIRM-ML-04 - Philosophy of Mind and Language - Mechanisms and levels of explanation (6 ECs)
• SOW-DGCN03 Neurophilosophy (continued,6 ECs)
• SOW-MKI37 Theoretical Cognitive Science 2: Science and society (3 ECs)
• SOW-MKI40 Cognition and Complexity (continued, 6 ECs)
• Poster presentation (3 ECs)

Courses:

1) FTR-FIRM-ML-03 - Philosophy of Mind and Language (10 ECs)

Bart Geurts

2) FTR-FIRM-ML-04 Philosophy of Mind and Language (10 ECs)

Leon de Bruin & Marc Slors

3) SOW-DGCN03 Neurophilosophy (6 ECs)

Pim Haselager & Leon de Bruin

4) SOW-MKI37 Theoretical Cognitive Science 2: Science and society (3 ECs)
Pim Haselager

5) SOW-MKI40 Cognition and Complexity (6 ECs)

Iris van Rooij & Johan Kwisthout

6) Poster presentation (3 ECs)

Pim Haselager & Leon de Bruin

The student presents a poster on a topic in Neurophilosophy. Topic & content will be planned and developed under the supervision of the coordinators.