Oğul Can Yurdakul

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Essays on Philosophy of Cognitive Science

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These are the weekly quizzes for the COGS517 Philosophy of Cognitive Science course I took during the Fall 2022 semester. They are relatively short (2-3 A4 sheets at most), so I decided to gather them in a single post as I write them. They are in chronological order, and as the course progresses they -more or less- follow a certain progression of topics and questions. While they start off heavily philosophy of mind centric, I expect them to turn more to the philosophy of cognitive science each week.

Social Cognition in the Emergence of Comprehension

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I wrote this essay as a midterm assignment in class for the PHIL408 Philosophy of Mind II course I took during the Spring 2022 semester, as a follow-up of the previous semester’s PHIL407. We had been discussing the ideas of Dennett, Frith and Gallese among many on cognition and social cognition, embodied simulation and comprehension out of competence. Because it was an in-class midterm and we had limited time (2 hours), our professor had spared us from the obligation of citing our sources explicitly, which is why there are not any in the below text aside from one place (and that is more a name-dropping than a proper citation). I can only state this is absolutely not a presentation of my ideas but of the scientists and philosophers I mentioned earlier, but in my own comprehension and words, with my own examples to the best of my knowledge.