TH 2-5 PM 336 OSH
Initial Reading List
What is Modularity?
Thursday, January 18:
Fodor, The Modularity of Mind
Toward Modularity In Central
Processes
Thursday, January 25:
Peter Carruthers, Distinctively human thinking: modular
precursors and components. In P.Carruthers, S.Laurence, and S.Stich (eds.), The
Innate Mind: structure and content.
Oxford University Press, 2005. (linked)
Frank Keil, Keil, F.C.
(1992). The Origins of an Autonomous Biology. In M. Gunnar and M. Maratsos
(Eds.), Modularity and Constraints in Language and Cognition: The Minnesota
Symposia. Hilldale, N.J.: Earlbaum. View (linked)
Dan Sperber, (1984) "The
Modularity of Thought and the Epidemiology of Representations" (on
reserve)
On The Theory of Mind:
Thursday February 1:
S. Baron-Cohen, A. M. Leslie and U. Frith, (1985) "Does the autistic child have a 'theory
of mind'?" Cognition 21:37-46
Jerry Fodor (1992) "A theory of the child's theory of
mind," Cognition,
Vol 44 No. 3, 283-296.
R. Blair (1996a) Theory of mind in the
psychopath. Journal of Forensic
Psychiatry. 7:
15-25.
(1996b) Brief report: Morality and the autistic child. Journal of Autism and Developmental
Disorders., 26, 571-579.
Bloom, P. & German, T. (2000). Two reasons to abandon the false belief task as a test
of theory of mind. Cognition, 77, B25-B31.
Evolutionary Psychology
Thursday, February 8: Massive Modularity: Tooby and Cosmides, Richard
Samuels
Thursday, February 15: Cheater
detection: Tooby and Cosmides, David Buller
Thursday,
February 22: Cheater detection: Cosmides and Tooby, Fodor, Ron Mallon
Other
topics:
Policies
Late
policy
Late
work will be penalized. If you
have a planned absence or a conflict with another class, make arrangements with
me in advance to avoid penalty. If
you have an unexpected emergency (e.g. the death of a loved one or a medical
problem), plan to present me with documentation of it. Unexcused late work will be penalized
at the rate of 1 letter grade per week, up to a maximum of two full letter
grades.
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incorporation of any other person's work in, or as a basis for, one's own work
offered for academic consideration or credit for public presentation. Plagiarism
includes, but is not limited to, representing as one's own, without
attribution, any individual's words, phrasing, ideas, sequence of ideas,
information or any other mode or content of expression (Student Code, p. 3).
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accommodation of religious beliefs.
University
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