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Module INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY, THEORY OF MIND (AI), AND LOGICAL THINKING (1)

Module code: PH214A
Credits: 5
Semester: 1
Department: PHILOSOPHY
International: No
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The aim of this elective stream is: firstly, to introduce an account of what philosophy is. Having outlined some of the more common approaches to this question, such as philosophy is a ‘love of wisdom’. It will, secondly, concentrate on four particular questions: ‘what is reality?’, ‘what is knowledge?’, ‘what is self?’ and ‘what is science?’. These questions will be addressed in order to contextualize discussions of the Theory of Mind, consciousness, artificial intelligence, and free will. Issues such as the brain-mind problem, the computational theory of mind, embodied cognition amongst other modern findings in neurophilosophy and neuroscience will be considered. Finally, issues in computation and language will bring us to the discussion of logic, leading to a consideration of the development of logic from Aristotelian syllogisms to modern predicate and modal logic.

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