Università Roma Tre

Over the past several years, philosophy of science has become increasingly "local," shifting its focus from the general characteristics of scientific practice to the theories, methods, and problems of scientific disciplines. The philosophies of psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science arise from this increased delimitation.
The mind that psychologists and neuroscientists deal with today is the daughter of the cognitive revolution and is therefore defined as a set of processes of information processing carried out in the brains of complex organisms. What makes the cognitivist investigation of the mind peculiar is its being suspended between two worlds: on the one hand, the ordinary image of ourselves as persons, that is, as subjects of conscious experiences, intentional states and deliberate action; on the other hand, the subpersonal sphere of brain events, the object of neuroscience. This course aims to introduce the reader to the cognitivist study of the mind, but always against the background of the philosophical effort to shed light on the relationships that link these different ways in which we describe ourselves.

A. Kind, Philosophy of Mind: The Basics. Routledge, London 2020.
A. Clark, Mindware. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Science. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014 (Second Edition).