Prerequisites: graduate standing

Description: Examines philosophical issues arising in the context of empirical psychology. Topics may include moral development, artificial intelligence and the mod- eling of cognition, the nature of perception and mem- ory, fallacies in human reasoning, mechanisms of self- understanding, and mental illness and personhood. 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.