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Undergraduate Record 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED RECORD]

PHIL 2350 - Minds, Machines, and Persons

Effective Start Date: 12/12/2022
This course surveys foundational issues in the philosophy of cognitive science. Part 1 asks, what is a mind? Are minds brains? Computers? Do minds extend into the body & environment? What it would take to make a machine with a mind? Part 2 turns to the problem of personal identity over time. Once you were a kid, now you’re an adult, and one day you’ll grow old. What (if anything) makes you the same person over your life.

Requisites: Students can’t enroll if previously taken PHIL 2500 topic #8 Minds, Machines, and Persons

Credits: 3