哲学学士-认知研究

学生将学习批判性推理：分析论证的逻辑结构，构造和批评论证，分析概念并评估定义，了解经验证据的相关性和用途，以及如何运用和评估它。个人将学会用清晰的，有说服力的方式表达批判性推理的方式。成功的学生将熟悉核心问题，并在思想，认知的哲学，科学，人类学和社会学研究中取得进步。该学生还将熟悉心理学和认知科学的核心著作。该课程为学生提供哲学研究生学习的准备，更广泛的来说，是为那些使用清晰的思想和合理的观点辩护以及整合来自各种观点和传统的信息而至关重要的专业。
Student will learn to reason critically: analyze the logical structure of arguments, construct and criticize arguments, analyze concepts and evaluate definitions, understand the relevance and use of empirical evidence, and how to employ and evaluate it. The individual will learn to write clearly and convincingly, in a way that articulates critical reasoning. The successful student will become conversant with the central problems and advances in the philosophical, scientific, anthropological, and sociological study of the mind and cognition. This student will also become familiar with central works in the philosophy of psychology and cognitive science.<br><br>This program prepares the student for graduate study in philosophy, and more generally for those professions in which it is central to employ clear thinking and a reasoned justification of opinion, and to integrate information from a diverse range of perspectives and traditions.