This is a preliminary day-by-day class schedule. Note that the schedule specifies a series of reading assignments. We expect that each student will have read therelevant paper prior to the class. In addition, the schedule specifies a presenter and a note taker for each class. The presenter will make a short (~20min) presentation on the topic to the class, and later post the presentation slides to the T square site for the class. The note taker will take notes on the class discussion and later post them to the T square site.
We will expect each student to have read the assigned readings before the class.
| Date | Topic |
Readings |
| 1/7 | Introduction |
Thagard Ch. 1 |
| 1/9 |
Logic |
Thagard Ch. 2 |
| 1/14 |
Rules |
Thagard Ch. 3 |
| 1/16 |
Concepts |
Thagard Ch. 4 |
| 1/21 |
Analogies |
Thagard Ch. 5 |
| 1/23 |
Images |
Thagard Ch. 6 |
| 1/28 |
Connections |
Thagard Ch. 7 |
| 1/30 |
Review |
Thagard Ch. 8 |
| 2/4 |
Brains |
Thagard Ch. 9 |
| 2/6 |
Emotions |
Thagard Ch. 10 |
| 2/11 |
Consciousness |
Thagard Ch. 11 |
| 2/13 |
Body |
Thagard Ch. 12 |
| 2/18 |
Culture |
Thagard Ch. 13 |
| 2/20 |
Review |
Thagard Ch. 14 |
| 2/25 |
Levels of Analysis |
Poggio and Marr - The Levels of Understanding framework, revised |
| 2/27 |
Knowledge Reps. |
Davis, Shrobe, and Szolovits - What is Knowledge Representation? |
| 3/4 |
Brains |
Goel - The seats of reason? An imaging study of deductive and inductive reasoning |
| 3/6 |
Cognitive Architectures |
Langley and Laird - Cognitive architectures: Research issues and challenges |
| 3/11 |
Distributed Cognition |
Hutchins - How a Cockpit Remembers Its Speeds |
| 3/13 |
Creativity |
Boden - Computer Models of Creativity |
| 3/25 |
Mental Models |
Johnson and Laird - Mental models and human reasoning |
| 3/27 |
Scripts |
Schank and Abelson - Script, Plans, Goals, and Understanding |
| 4/1 |
Metaphors |
Lakoff - Ch 1: Concepts We Live By, Ch 2: The Systematicity of Metaphorical Concepts, and Ch 3: Metaphorical Systematicity: Highlighting and Hiding |
| 4/3 |
Analogies |
Getner and Markman - Structure Mapping in Analogy and Similarity |
| 4/8 |
Diagrams |
Larkin and Simon - Why a Diagram is (Sometimes) Worth Ten Thousand Words |
| 4/10 |
Structure |
Kemp and Tenenbaum - The discovery of structural form |
| 4/15 |
Theory of Mind Theory |
Baron-Cohen - Evolution of a Theory of Mind |
| 4/17 |
Cultural Origins |
Tomasello - Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition |
| 4/22 |
Perceptual Symbols |
Barsalou - Perceptual symbol systems |
| 4/24 |
Thinking in Pictures |
Kunda and Goel - Thinking in Pictures as a Cognitive Account of Autism |
| 4/29 |
Final examination is due |
