PHI 3999: Minds and Machines (2024-2025)

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Spring 2025

This course explores the nature of minds, consciousness, and the relationship between the mind and the brain. If thoughts, beliefs, desires, intentions, and emotive states can be evident in organic structures like the human brain, what else could exhibit them? What varieties of artificial intelligence are possible? Can computers be truly intelligent?

Term CRN Credits Instructor(s) Days Time Dates Location Open
Autumn 505 3 Rebekah Rice
Tu
5:30PM-8:20 PM
09/30-12/05
Marston Watson Hall 253
16 of 16 seats open
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Attributes: Honors Course, Writing "W" Course, Upper-Division
Grade Modes: (Default) Normal Grading, Audit
Instructional Methods: Traditional
Note: Full Term

Prerequisites:
PHI 1001: D or better
OR PHI 1002: D or better
OR PHI 1004: D or better
OR UCOR 3000: D or better
OR HON 2100: D or better