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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)

http://www.ru.nl/prospectus/socsci/courses-osiris/ai/sow-mki37-theoretical-cognitive-science-2-science/

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.