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Minor Neurophilosophy

Minor Neurophilosophy 2019-2020

Coordinator: Leon de Bruin (Philosophy, l.debruin@ftr.ru.nl)
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 16 ECs, and an ‘extended’ version, which consists of 30 ECs.

For the basic minor, only 1 philosophy of mind and language course can be selected (max 10 ECs). For the extended version, no more than 2 philosophy of mind and language courses can be selected (max 20 ECs). To obtain a minor Neurophilosophy certificate, students have to complete at least 1 philosophy of mind and language course

Overview of courses per period:

Period 1

  • FTR-FIRM-ML-01 Philosophy of Mind and Language - Evolution of language and communication (continues in period 2, for a total of 10 ECs)

Period 2

  • FTR-FIRM-ML-01 Philosophy of Mind and Language - Evolution of language and communication (continued, 10 ECs)
  • Capita Selecta & Poster presentation (4 ECs)

Period 3

  • FTR-FIRM-PML-02 Philosophy of Mind and Language - Social cognition and theory of mind (continues in period 4, for a total of 10 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)

SOW-MKI67 Ethics for Artificial Intelligence (& Cognitive Neuroscience) (continues in period 2, for a total of 6 ECs, has the possibility for a separate exam of 3 ECs)

Period 4

  • FTR-FIRM-PML-02 Philosophy of Mind and Language - Social cognition and theory of mind (continued, 10 ECs)
  • SOW-DGCN03 Neurophilosophy (continued,6 ECs)
  • SOW-MKI40 Cognition and Complexity (continued, 6 ECs)
  • SOW-MKI67 Ethics for Artificial Intelligence (& Cognitive Neuroscience) (continued, 6 ECs, has the possibility for a separate exam of 3 ECs)

Courses:

  1. FTR-FIRM-ML-01 - Philosophy of Mind and Language (10 ECs)

2. FTR-FIRM-ML-02 Philosophy of Mind and Language (10 ECs)

3. SOW-DGCN03 Neurophilosophy (6 ECs)

4. SOW-MKI67 Ethics for Artificial Intelligence (& Cognitive Neuroscience) (6ec)

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

6. Poster presentation (4 ECs)

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

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