ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Fall
'99
Fall
'99
Instructor
Varol AkmanCourse Schedule
Tue 10:40, 11:40; Fri 13:40 (EA502)Office Hours
Tue 14:40, Fri 14:40Motivation
give
a good idea about the nature of the enterprise.
There'll be class presentations, a midterm, and an essay (and hence no final). The midterm will be administered as a take-home exam. By an "essay", I mean a typeset document of some length (~10-12 pp), giving a coherent and substantial analysis of an issue discussed in a paper covered in class. If you would like to do an essay studying a paper not covered in class, you must first contact me. (It is also possible to do a book review instead of an essay. Again, first get my approval.)
Here's
a breakdown of the course activities:
The
following fundamental book on the philosophy of mind is available in the
library:
This
year we'll concentrate on consciousness. Hence the following collection
of papers (available in the library) is extremely useful:
Online Papers on ConsciousnessPapers in the following list are preceded by dates on which they will be presented. A presentation must take approximately 30 mins. The remainder of the lecture must be devoted to a discussion of the paper. Towards this end, everyone -- except the speaker -- must prepare one question, together with his/her proposed answer. This is called a "Q&A sheet" and should be printed on a single page. Make enough copies for everyone in the class and don't forget to submit one to me. At the end of the term, you'll give me your best 5 Q&A sheets plus your essay (all placed in a folder) for grading. (You are encouraged to submit the revised versions of the Q&A sheets.)