Prerequisites: graduate standing

Description: Examines philosophical issues arising in the context of empirical psychology. Topics may include moral development, artificial intelligence and the modeling of cognition, the nature of perception and memory, fallacies in human reasoning, mechanisms of self-understanding, and mental illness and person- hood. Students who complete all writing assignments, including a term paper, receive a letter grade; other students receive a

Credit: Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) grade. Credit is awarded for only one of PHIL 135 or PHIL 235.