Mind
14300, Spring 2008
Levels of Explanation
Website for Section 1
Contact information
Terry Regier, instructor (office:
Green 414, email: regier at uchicago
dot edu)
Tiffany
Bloomfield, intern (office:
Supplemental readings
Locke, John (1690). Essay
concerning Human Understanding. [Excerpts].
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1703/1989). Preface
to the New Essays (pp. 291-295). In R. Ariew
& D. Garber (Eds.), Leibniz:
Philosophical Essays.
Encylopaedia Britannica entries on Locke
and Leibniz.
Simulations
A Hopfield network as associative memory.
A Hopfield network applied to a completely different task, the “traveling salesman problem”. Press the “start” button to watch it settle
on a solution.
Grading criteria
In
your writeups, please go beyond the material in the
readings and lecture. A good way to do
this is to extract the general principles
of a reading or readings, and explore whether/how these principles apply
elsewhere. Weekly writeups
are graded according to these criteria:
0
= Didn’t turn in a writeup.
1
= Misunderstood, misinterpreted, and/or didn’t discuss week’s topics.
2
= No evidence of more than skimming the readings, or just gave summary of 1 or
more readings.
3
= Addressed something of importance
from readings and lecture, but didn’t go beyond the obvious.
4
= A really good response: got at the heart of important issues, integrated the
readings, lecture, and beyond.