School of Liberal Arts: Cognitive Studies
2008-2009 Academic Year
296
Office:
105H Newcomb Hall
Phone:
504-862-3380
Fax:
504-862-8714
Website:
www.tulane.edu/~phil/undercognitive2.html
Program Administrators
Radu Bogdan, Philosophy, (Director)
Jeffrey J. Lockman, Psychology
The coordinate major in cognitive studies combines a regular major with a core
curriculum in three tracks: formal disciplines, philosophical foundations and
psychology. The program is designed to provide basic knowledge of current
research on mind, cognition, and language.
The major consists of ten courses of which six are required and four elective. At
least one elective must be in each of the three component tracks. With the
director's consent, work in a different but relevant discipline may be substituted
for, at most, one elective course. It is suggested that students interested in
philosophy take an introductory course, preferably Philosophy 104, Beginning
with Minds.
REQUIRED COURSES (SIX COURSES, TWO IN EACH TRACK)
I. Formal Disciplines Track
PHIL 121 Elementary Symbolic Logic
PHIL 304 Mathematical Logic
II. Philosophical Foundations Track
PHIL 374 Consciousness
PHIL 375 Mind and Knowledge
PHIL 376, PSYC 376 Interpreting Minds
III. Psychology Track
PSYC 100, 101 Introduction to Psychology
and one of the following:
PSYC 367 Brain and Behavior
PSYC 657 Cognitive Neuroscience