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David I Beaver
Professor — PhD, Edinburgh
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- E-mail: dib@utexas.edu
- Phone: 471-9028
- Office: CAL 414
- Campus Mail Code: B5100
PHL 383C • Intro To Cognitive Science
43205 •
Fall 2013
Meets
TTH 930am-1100am CAL 22
(also listed as
CGS 380, LIN 392 )
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Prerequisites
Graduate Standing and Consent of Graduate Advisor required.
Course Description
An introduction to cognitive science, the new discipline emerging from the interaction of psychology, artificial intelligence, linguistics, philosophy, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology. The course will range broadly, examining a variety of approaches to the study of how humans and other intelligent systems represent, reason, understand, perceive, use language, learn, and plan purposeful actions. The central assumption is that the human mind is fundamentally a computational organ and that cognitive processes can be explicitly modeled. The course will cover the basic issues and contributions in the field, with particular emphasis on current research at UT. There will be frequent lectures by faculty from the relevant disciplines who are engaged in such research. Major topics in the course will include: * Neuroscience: systems neuroscience, functional brain mapping, relating localized brain damage to spared and damaged abilities, evolutionary biology. * Reasoning, Concepts, and Conceptual Development: categorization, children's theories of mind, nonmonotonic reasoning, qualitative reasoning, problem solving, mental models, schemas. * Computational Approaches: modularity, connectionism, symbol manipulation, knowledge representation, machine learning. * Language: speech perception, sentence parsing, natural language understanding, discourse representation, language acquisition, syntax. * Vision: computational theory, psychology of visual perception, visual imagination, attention, spatial reasoning. * Other Topics: Memory, Philosophy of Mind, Robotics, Implicit Knowledge, Emotion, Learning. Class will meet once a week for three hours with a break. Often we will have guest lecturers from around the University who are interested in Cognitive Science. These researchers will present aspects of their own work and its relationship to Cognitive Science as a whole. In addition, we will have periodic classes devoted to discussions of foundational issues in Cognitive Science. Class participation is important to this class, as it is to most seminars. Students are expected to do the readings each week and to come prepared to talk about issues related to those readings. While there will be guest speakers each week, it will always be appropriate to ask questions.
Grading Policy Grades will be assigned based on these factors: * 50%: Class attendance and participation, questions inspired by readings, and commentaries. Over the course of the semester, each student may miss 1.5 classes without penalty. Not participating in the class discussion is only marginally better than not attending class. Each class you will bring in two questions related to the assigned readings along with a short paragraph discussing what motivates the questions. * 10%: Homework and quizzes * 40%: Final project - cogsci grant application Policy on incompletes. No incompletes will be given. Policy on independence of work and plagiarism: You are encouraged to discuss the material presented in class with other students. All written work turned in by a student must be the independent work of that student. In the case of the collaborative projects, of course, the work must be the work only of the members of the group. Obviously, you are not to include text that you have not written without clear quotations and attributions of the original source.
Texts None. Additional Materials Every week there will be additional readings. These readings will be available online as pdf files.
PHL 383C • Intro To Cognitive Science
42625 •
Fall 2011
Meets
F 900am-1200pm SEA 4.242
(also listed as
CGS 380, LIN 392, PSY 394U )
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Prerequisites
Graduate Standing and Consent of Graduate Advisor required.
Course Description
An introduction to cognitive science, the new discipline emerging from the interaction of psychology, artificial intelligence, linguistics, philosophy, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology. The course will range broadly, examining a variety of approaches to the study of how humans and other intelligent systems represent, reason, understand, perceive, use language, learn, and plan purposeful actions. The central assumption is that the human mind is fundamentally a computational organ and that cognitive processes can be explicitly modeled. The course will cover the basic issues and contributions in the field, with particular emphasis on current research at UT. There will be frequent lectures by faculty from the relevant disciplines who are engaged in such research. Major topics in the course will include: * Neuroscience: systems neuroscience, functional brain mapping, relating localized brain damage to spared and damaged abilities, evolutionary biology. * Reasoning, Concepts, and Conceptual Development: categorization, children's theories of mind, nonmonotonic reasoning, qualitative reasoning, problem solving, mental models, schemas. * Computational Approaches: modularity, connectionism, symbol manipulation, knowledge representation, machine learning. * Language: speech perception, sentence parsing, natural language understanding, discourse representation, language acquisition, syntax. * Vision: computational theory, psychology of visual perception, visual imagination, attention, spatial reasoning. * Other Topics: Memory, Philosophy of Mind, Robotics, Implicit Knowledge, Emotion, Learning. Class will meet once a week for three hours with a break. Often we will have guest lecturers from around the University who are interested in Cognitive Science. These researchers will present aspects of their own work and its relationship to Cognitive Science as a whole. In addition, we will have periodic classes devoted to discussions of foundational issues in Cognitive Science. Class participation is important to this class, as it is to most seminars. Students are expected to do the readings each week and to come prepared to talk about issues related to those readings. While there will be guest speakers each week, it will always be appropriate to ask questions.
Grading Policy Grades will be assigned based on these factors: * 50%: Class attendance and participation, questions inspired by readings, and commentaries. Over the course of the semester, each student may miss 1.5 classes without penalty. Not participating in the class discussion is only marginally better than not attending class. Each class you will bring in two questions related to the assigned readings along with a short paragraph discussing what motivates the questions. * 10%: Homework and quizzes * 40%: Final project - cogsci grant application Policy on incompletes. No incompletes will be given. Policy on independence of work and plagiarism: You are encouraged to discuss the material presented in class with other students. All written work turned in by a student must be the independent work of that student. In the case of the collaborative projects, of course, the work must be the work only of the members of the group. Obviously, you are not to include text that you have not written without clear quotations and attributions of the original source.
Texts None. Additional Materials Every week there will be additional readings. These readings will be available online as pdf files.
PHL 383C • Intro To Cognitive Science
42570 •
Fall 2010
Meets
F 900am-1200pm SEA 3.250
(also listed as
CGS 380, LIN 392, PSY 394U )
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Prerequisites
Graduate Standing and Consent of Graduate Advisor required.
Course Description
An introduction to cognitive science, the new discipline emerging from the interaction of psychology, artificial intelligence, linguistics, philosophy, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology. The course will range broadly, examining a variety of approaches to the study of how humans and other intelligent systems represent, reason, understand, perceive, use language, learn, and plan purposeful actions. The central assumption is that the human mind is fundamentally a computational organ and that cognitive processes can be explicitly modeled. The course will cover the basic issues and contributions in the field, with particular emphasis on current research at UT. There will be frequent lectures by faculty from the relevant disciplines who are engaged in such research. Major topics in the course will include: * Neuroscience: systems neuroscience, functional brain mapping, relating localized brain damage to spared and damaged abilities, evolutionary biology. * Reasoning, Concepts, and Conceptual Development: categorization, children's theories of mind, nonmonotonic reasoning, qualitative reasoning, problem solving, mental models, schemas. * Computational Approaches: modularity, connectionism, symbol manipulation, knowledge representation, machine learning. * Language: speech perception, sentence parsing, natural language understanding, discourse representation, language acquisition, syntax. * Vision: computational theory, psychology of visual perception, visual imagination, attention, spatial reasoning. * Other Topics: Memory, Philosophy of Mind, Robotics, Implicit Knowledge, Emotion, Learning.
Class will meet once a week for three hours with a break. Often we will have guest lecturers from around the University who are interested in Cognitive Science. These researchers will present aspects of their own work and its relationship to Cognitive Science as a whole. In addition, we will have periodic classes devoted to discussions of foundational issues in Cognitive Science. Class participation is important to this class, as it is to most seminars. Students are expected to do the readings each week and to come prepared to talk about issues related to those readings. While there will be guest speakers each week, it will always be appropriate to ask questions.
Grading Policy
Grades will be assigned based on these factors: * 50%: Class attendance and participation, questions inspired by readings, and commentaries. Over the course of the semester, each student may miss 1.5 classes without penalty. Not participating in the class discussion is only marginally better than not attending class. Each class you will bring in two questions related to the assigned readings along with a short paragraph discussing what motivates the questions. * 10%: Homework and quizzes * 40%: Final project - cogsci grant application Policy on incompletes. No incompletes will be given. Policy on independence of work and plagiarism: You are encouraged to discuss the material presented in class with other students. All written work turned in by a student must be the independent work of that student. In the case of the collaborative projects, of course, the work must be the work only of the members of the group. Obviously, you are not to include text that you have not written without clear quotations and attributions of the original source.
Texts
None. Additional Materials Every week there will be additional readings. These readings will be available online as pdf files.
PHL 365 • Intro To Cognitive Science
43245 •
Spring 2010
Meets
MWF 1000-1100 UTC 3.132
(also listed as
CGS 360, LIN 373, PSY 341K )
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PHL 365 • Intro To Cognitive Science
42460 •
Spring 2009
Meets
TTH 1100-1230pm UTC 3.124
(also listed as
CGS 360, LIN 373, PSY 341K )
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Topics of contemporary interest that may vary from semester to semester. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. May be repeated for credit when the topics vary. Prerequisite: For psychology majors, upper-division standing and Psychology 301 and 418 with a grade of at least C in each; for nonmajors, upper-division standing, Psychology 301 with a grade of at least C, and one of the following with a grade of at least C: Biology 318M, Civil Engineering 311S, Economics 329, Educational Psychology 371, Government 350K, Mathematics 316, Psychology 317, Sociology 317L, Social Work 318, Statistics 309.
Publications
Beaver, D. and B. Clark (2008) Sense and Sensitivity: How Focus Determines Meaning, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford.
Geurts, B. and D. Beaver (to appear) “Presupposition”, in Maienborn, C., K. von Heusinger, and P. Portner (eds). Semantics: An. International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning, de Gruyter, Berlin.
Beaver, D. (in press) “Have you Noticed that your Belly Button Lint Colour is Related to the Colour of your Clothing?”, in Rainer B¨auerle, Uwe Reyle, and Thomas E. Zimmermann (eds.), Presuppositions and Discourse. Elsevier, Oxford. (34 pages).
Beaver, D. (in press) “As brief as possible (but no briefer)”, Theoretical Linguistics.
Geurts, B. and D. Beaver (to appear) “Presupposition”, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Geurts, B. and D. Beaver (2007) “Discourse Representation Theory”, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Beaver, D. and H. Zeevat (2007) “Accommodation”, in Ramchand, G. and C. Reiss (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces, Oxford University Press (35 pages).
Aloni, M., D. Beaver, B. Clark and R. van Rooij (2007) “The Dynamics of Topic and Focus”. In Aloni, M., A. Butler, and P. Dekker (eds.), Questions in Dynamic Semantics, Elsevier, Amsterdam (pp. 123-145).
Beaver, D. and Condoravdi, C. (2007) “On the Logic of Verbal Modification”, in P. Dekker and F. Roelofson (eds.) Proceedings of the Sixteenth Amsterdam Colloquium, Institute of Logic, Language and Computation Publications, Amsterdam.
Nenkova, A., Brenier, J., A. Kothari, D. Jurafsky, S. Calhoun, D. Beaver, and L. Whitton (2007). “To Memorize or to Predict: Prominence labeling in Conversational Speech”, in Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2007.
Beaver, D., B. Clark, E. Flemming, T. F. Jaeger, and M.Wolters (2007), “When Semantics Meets Phonetics: Acoustical Studies of Second Occurrence Focus”, Language 83.2 (pp. 245–276).
Brenier, J., A. Nenkova, A. Kothari, L. Whitton, D. Beaver, and D. Jurafsky (2006). “The (non)Utility of Linguistic Features for Predicting Prominence in Spontaneous Speech”, in Proceedings of IEEE/ACL 2006 Workshop on Spoken Language Technology.
Wasow, T., A. Perfors and D. Beaver (2005) “The Puzzle of Ambiguity”, in Orgun, C. O. and P. Sells (eds.), Essays in Memory of Steve Lapointe, CSLI Publications (18 pages).
Beaver, D., I. Francez and D. Levinson (2005) “Bad Subject: (Non-)Canonicality and NP Distribution in Existentials”, in E. Georgala and J. Howell (eds.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic. Theory XV, CLC Publications, Ithaca, New York (pp. 19–43).
Beaver, D. (2004) “Accommodating Topics”, in Kamp, H. and B. H. Partee (eds.), Context-Dependence in the Analysis of Linguistic Meaning, Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface, vol. 11, Elsevier (pp. 79–90).
Beaver D. and H. Lee (2004) “Input-Output Mismatches in OT”, in Blutner, R. and H. Zeevat (eds.), Optimality Theory and Pragmatics, Palgrave/Macmillan (pp. 112–153).
Beaver, D. (2004) “Five Only Pieces”, Theoretical Linguistics 30 (pp. 45–64).
Beaver, D. (2004) “The Optimization of Discourse Anaphora”, Linguistics and Philosophy 27:1 (pp. 3–56).
Beaver, D. and C. Condoravdi (2003) “A Uniform Analysis of Before and After”, in Young, R. and Y. Zhou (eds), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory XIII, CLC Publications, Cornell (pp. 37–54).
Beaver D. and H. Lee (2003) “Form-Meaning Asymmetries and Bidirectional Optimization”, in Spenader, J., A. Eriksson and O. Dahl (eds.), Variation within Optimality Theory, University of Stockholm (pp. 138–148).
Beaver, D. and B. Clark (2003) “ ‘Always’ and ‘Only’: Why not all Focus Sensitive Operators are Alike”, Natural Language Semantics 11:4 (pp. 323–362).
Beaver, D. and B. Clark (2002) “Monotonicity and Focus Sensitivity”, in Jackson, B. (ed.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory XI, CLC Publications, Cornell (pp.40–58).
Beaver, D. and B. Clark (2002) “The Proper Treatments of Focus Sensitivity”, in Potts, C. and L. Mikkelsen (eds.), Proceedings of West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics XXI, Cascadilla Press (pp. 15–28).
Beaver, D. (2002) “Presupposition in DRT”, in Beaver, D., L. Casillas, B. Clark and S. Kaufmann (eds.), The Construction of Meaning, CSLI Publications (pp. 23–43).
Beaver, D. (2002) “Pragmatics, and That’s an Order”, in Barker-Plummer, D., D.Beaver, J. van Benthem, and P. Scotto di Luzio (eds.), Logic, Language and Visual Information, CSLI Publications (pp. 191–215).
Beaver, D., L. Casillas, B. Clark, S. Kaufmann (eds.) (2002) The Construction of Meaning, CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA.
Barker-Plummer, D., D. Beaver, J. van Benthem and P. Scotto di Luzio (eds.) (2002) Logic, Language and Visual Information, CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA.
Wolters, M. and D. Beaver (2001) “What does he mean?”, in Moore, J. and K. Stenning (eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, New Jersey (pp. 1176–1180).
Beaver, D. (2001) Presupposition and Assertation in Dynamic Semantics, Studies in Logic Language and Information, CSLI Publications (328 pages), Stanford, CA.
Beaver, D. and E. Krahmer (2001) “A Partial Account of Presupposition Projection”, Journal of Logic, Language and Information 10:2 (pp. 142–182).
Beaver, D. (1999) “The Logic of Anaphora Resolution”, in Dekker, P. (ed.), Proceedings of the Twelfth Amsterdam Colloquium, Institute of Logic, Language and Computation Publications, Amsterdam (pp. 55–60).
Aloni, M., D. Beaver and B. Clark (1999) “Topic and Focus Sensitivity”, in Dekker, P. (ed.), Proceedings of the Twelfth Amsterdam Colloquium, Institute of Logic, Language and Computation Publications, Amsterdam (pp. 61–66).
Beaver, D. (1999) “Presupposition: A Plea for Common Sense”, in Moss, L., J. Ginzburg and M. de Rijke (eds.), Logic, Language and Computation, vol. 2, CSLI Publications (pp. 21–44) (revised version of Beaver, D. (1994) “An Infinite Number of Monkeys”).
Beaver, D. (1999) “Pragmatics (to a First Approximation)”, in Gerbrandy, J., M. Marx, M. de Rijke, and Y. Venema (eds.), JFAK — Essays Dedicated to Johan van Benthem on the Occasion of his 50th Birthday, Vossiuspers, Amsterdam University Press (13 pages).
Beaver, D. (1997) “Presupposition”, in van Benthem, J. and A. ter Meulen (eds.), The
Handbook of Logic and Language, Elsevier (pp. 939–1008).
Dekker, P. and D. Beaver (1997) Report on ECDS: An Interactive Course on the Internet, Report number X-97-01, Institute of Logic, Language and Computation Publications, Amsterdam (16 pages).
Beaver, D. (1996) “Local Satisfaction Preferred”, in Dekker, P. and M. Stokhof (eds.), Proceedings of the Tenth Amsterdam Colloquium, Institute of Logic, Language and Computation Publications, Amsterdam (pp. 57–72).
Krause, P. and D. Beaver (1995) “The Architecture and Semantic Representation Formats of DYANA’s Integrated Implementation”, in Beaver, D. (ed.), The Dyana Integrated Implementation, Institute of Logic, Language and Computation Publications, Amsterdam
(pp. 1–27).
Beaver, D. and I. van der Bovenkamp (1995) “Application and Implementation of Information Packaging”, in Beaver, D. (ed.), The Dyana Integrated Implementation, Institute of Logic, Language and Computation Publications, Amsterdam (pp. 43–58).
Beaver, D. (1994) “When Variables Don’t Vary Enough”, in Harvey, M. and L. Santelmann (eds.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory IV, Cornell (pp. 35–60).
Beaver, D. (1994) “An Infinite Number of Monkeys”, Acta Linguistica Hungarica 42:3 (pp. 253–270).
Beaver, D. (1993) “Two Birds and one Stone”, in Kamp, H. (ed.), Presupposition, DYANA-2 R2.2a, Institute of Logic, Language and Computation Publications, Amsterdam (pp. 1–29).
Beaver, D. (1993) “Kinematic Montague Grammar”, in Kamp, H. (ed.), Presupposition, DYANA-2 R2.2a, Institute of Logic, Language and Computation Publications, Amsterdam (pp. 75–133).
Beaver, D. (1992) “The Kinematics of Presupposition”, in Dekker, P. and M. Stockhof (eds.), Proceedings of the Eighth Amsterdam Colloquium, Institute of Logic, Language and Computation Publications, Amsterdam (pp. 17–36).
Beaver, D., A. Black, R. Cooper and I. Lewin (1991) “Dynamic Montague Grammar in Extended Kamp Notation”, in Seligman, J. (ed.) Partial and Dynamic Semantics III, DYANA R2.1c, University of Edinburgh.
Beaver, D., “DMG through the Looking Glass”, 1991, in Stokhof, M., J. Groenendijk and D. Beaver (eds.) Quantification and Anaphora I, DYANA R2.2a, University of Edinburgh.
