News and Events
New Website Launched for Spring 2009
The Cognitive Science website has been updated and brought into compliance with CSU Fresno's Clean Up The Web effort. This effort is spearheaded by the CSU System Chancellor's office, to comply with United States Government § 508 Accessibility Requirements.
Post Fall 2008 Cognitive Science 101 Follow-Up
The Cog Sci Seminar put on during the Fall 2008 semester was a smash success! The text for the course was "A Companion to Cognitive Science" (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy) by William Bechtel and George Graham (ISBN-10: 0631218513).
Led by Dr. Sean Fulop, students and instructor picked topics to be discussed in connection with each other, thus bridging the many areas of Cognitive Science in a fashion cohesive to student interest and learning.
Congratulations to Dr. Fulop, who left in October for the birth of his son! After this point several guest lecturers brought their areas of knowledge and expertise to the classroom.
Dr. Chris Golston brought his hilarious brand of observations on Modularity of Mind.
Dr. Lorin Lachs brought this opposing view on Modularity from Psychology perspective.
Dr. Jedong Chen explained aspects of developmental Linguistics, introducing Quine's "gavagai" problem in language acquisition.
and finally,
Dr. Walter Read brought us Roomba to play with - and contemplate the nature of artificial intelligence.
The small, windowless room was kept full with 7 students - and plenty of humor - throughout the semester.
FALL 2008 - Cognitive Science 101 (CGSCI 101 - 3 units)
Cog Sci Seminar
Introduces students to the discipline of Cognitive Science through a series of lectures given by local and visiting Cognitive Scientists. The structure and content will vary from term-to-term. May be taken 3 times for credit.
When? Fall 2008, Tuesday / Thursday, 2:00-3:15pm
Where? PHS 246
Instructor? Dr. Sean Fulop, Linguistics (? and guests ?)
Class # 76259