Cognitive Science

José Luis Bermúdez is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Professor of Philosophy at Texas A & M University. He has been involved in teaching and research in cognitive science for over fifteen years, and is very much involved in bringing an interdisciplinary focus to cognitive science through involvement with conference organization and journals. His 100+ publications including the textbook Philosophy of Psychology: A Contemporary Introduction (2005) and a companion collection of readings, Philosophy of Psychology: Contemporary Readings (2006). He has authored the monographs The Paradox of Self-Consciousness (1998), Thinking without Words (2003), and Decision Theory and Rationality (2009) in addition to editing a number of collections including The Body and the Self (1995), Reason and Nature (2003), and Thought, Reference, and Experience (2005).

Part I. Historical Landmarks: 1. The prehistory of cognitive science; 2. The discipline matures: three milestones; 3. The turn to the brain; Part II. Models and Tools: 4. Physical symbol systems and the language of thought; 5. Neural networks and distributed information processing; 6. Applying dynamical systems theory to model the mind; 7. Bayesian models in cognitive science; 8. Modules and architectures; 9. Strategies for brain mapping; Part III. Applications: 10. Models of language learning; 11. Object perception and folk physics; 12. Machine learning: from expert systems to deep learning; 13. Exploring mindreading; 14. Mindreading: advanced topics; 15. The cognitive science of consciousness; 16. Situated cognition and robotics.