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 EC, and an ‘extended’ version, which consists of 30 EC.
For the basic minor, no more than 2 philosophy of mind and language courses can be selected (max 12 ec). For the extended version, no more than 3 philosophy of mind and language courses can be selected (max 18 ec).
Overview of courses per period:
Period 1
- FTR-FIRM-ML-01 - Philosophy of Mind and Language - Human communication: social and cognitive perspectives (6 ec)
Period 2
- FTR-FIRM-ML-03 - Philosophy of Mind and Language - Language and cognition (6 ec)
Period 3
- FTR-FIRM-ML-04 Philosophy of Mind and Language - Cognitive ontologies, commonsense and neuroscience (6 ec)
- SOW-DGCN03 Neurophilosophy (continues in period 4, for a total of 6 ec )
- SOW-MKI40 Cognition and Complexity (continues in period 4, for a total of 6 ec)
Period 4
- FTR-FIRM-ML-04 - Philosophy of Mind and Language - Mechanisms and levels of explanation (6 ec)
- SOW-DGCN03 Neurophilosophy (continued, 6 ec)
- SOW-MKI37 Theoretical Cognitive Science 2: Science and society (3 ec)
- SOW-MKI40 Cognition and Complexity (continued, 6 ec)
- Poster presentation (3 ec)
Courses:
1) FTR-FIRM-ML-03 - Philosophy of Mind and Language (12 EC)
http://www.ru.nl/prospectus/fftr/fftr/coursesrm/ftr-firm-ml-03/
Bart Geurts
2) FTR-FIRM-ML-04 Philosophy of Mind and Language (12 ec)
http://www.ru.nl/prospectus/fftr/fftr/coursesrm/ftr-firm-ml-04/
Leon de Bruin & Marc Slors
3) SOW-DGCN03 Neurophilosophy (6 ec)
http://www.ru.nl/prospectus/socsci/courses-osiris/cns/sow-dgcn03-neurophilosophy/
Pim Haselager & Leon de Bruin
Period 3 & 4
4) SOW-MKI37 Theoretical Cognitive Science 2: Science and society (3 ec)
Period 4
Pim Haselager
5) SOW-MKI40 Cognition and Complexity (6 ec)
http://www.ru.nl/prospectus/socsci/courses-osiris/ai/sow-mki40-cognition-and-complexity/
Period 3 & 4
Iris van Rooij & Johan Kwisthout
6) Poster presentation (3 ec)
Period 4
Coordinators: W.F.G. Haselager & L.C. 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.