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Cognitive Science

Welcome to the web page for Cognitive Science at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (Howard College Campus).

There are Four course lecturers for the course. The following links are to their web pages, where some additional resources relating to this course can be found:

David Spurrett (follow the 'lecture notes' link): http://www.nu.ac.za/undphil/spurrett/

John Collier: http://www.nu.ac.za/undphil/collier/202/

Andrew Dellis: http://www.nu.ac.za/undphil/collier/202/EvolPsych

On these pages you can find links to a growing collection of structured tutorial exercises to be completed using the Reason!Able Software. In the future, links to lecture notes and other course information will be added.

The Demarcation Problem

Tutorial exercises on the Demarcation Problem: [one] [two].

Locomotion

Tutorial exercises on the control of locomotion: [one] [two].

Tetris

Tutorial exercises on Tetris playing [one] [two].

Distributed Cognition

Tutorial exercise on Kirsh's "Intelligent Use of Space": [coming soon]

Tutorial exercises on Kirsh's "Adapting the Environment Instead of Oneself": [one] [two]

Evolutionary Psychology

Tutorial exercise on Evolutionary Psychology: [one].

Language and Cognition

Tutorial exercises on Clark's "Magic Words": [one] [two].

Niche Construction

Tutorial exercises on Laland et al 'Niche Construction': [one] [two]

Distributed Representations

Tutorial exercises on distributed representations: [one]

The Extended Mind

Tutorial exercises on the extended mind: [one]

Reason!Able maps and notes used in lectures on Clark & Chalmers's 'Extended Mind' [one] [two] [three] [four] [five] [six] [seven]

Reason!Able maps used for lectures on Sterelny's 'Externalism, Epistemic Artefacts ...' [one] [two]

Reason!Able maps and notes used for lectures on Clark's 'Memento's Revenge' [one] [two] [three] [four] [five] [six]

Reason!Able map used for lectures on Clark's 'Intrinsic content, active memory ...' [one]


This page maintained by David Spurrett. Last modified April, 2005.