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Cognitive science is the study of how intelligent beings (including people, animals, and machines) perceive, act, know, and think.

It explores the process and content of thought as observed in individuals, distributed through communities, manifested in the structure and meaning of language, modeled by algorithms, and contemplated by philosophies of mind.

Its models are formulated using concepts drawn from many disciplines, including psychology, linguistics, logic, computer science, anthropology, and philosophy, and they are tested using evidence from psychological experiments, clinical studies, field studies, computer simulations, and neurophysiological observation.

Announcement: The Cognitive Science Graduate Certificate is now open to UConn students and non-degree students. Please see the Graduate Certificate Application process webpage for more information.

Sep 23 Sociocultural Anthropology Seminar Series12:00pm

Sociocultural Anthropology Seminar Series

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020

12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

Other
ONLINE

Ashley Walters Ph.D. Candidate, University of Connecticut presents Teaching Human Rights to Children: An Educator’s Guide to Statelessness.

Colloquium Link: https://uconnvtc.webex.com/meet/anthrodept

Contact Information: Andrea Booth andrea.booth@uconn.edu
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Sep 23 Philosophy Brown Bag: Rahlwes12:15pm

Philosophy Brown Bag: Rahlwes

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020

12:15 PM - 01:15 PM

Storrs Campus
link TBA

This week: Chris Rahlwes, "Nāgārjuna's Logic"

A series of informal talks by philosophy faculty and graduate students. For a description and how to sign up, see http://philosophy.uconn.edu/brown-bags/.

Contact Information: Lionel Shapiro, lionel.shapiro@uconn.edu
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Sep 24 ECOM - Spotlight Series Talk (Drew Johnson)12:15pm

ECOM - Spotlight Series Talk (Drew Johnson)

Thursday, September 24th, 2020

12:15 PM - 01:30 PM

Storrs Campus, Storrs Campus, Storrs Campus, Storrs Campus
WebEx

In this ECOM Spotlight Series talk, Drew Johnson will be talking about "Proper Function and Ethical Judgment: Towards a Biosemantic Account of Ethical Thought and Discourse."

Talks will take place online. Please send an email to "aliyar.ozercan@uconn.edu" for the WebEx link.

For the detailed information about, please visit our website: https://ecomresearchgroup.com/speaker-series/

Contact Information: aliyar.ozercan@uconn.edu
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Sep 25 Logic Supergroup: Stewart Shapiro & David McCarty11:00am

Logic Supergroup: Stewart Shapiro & David McCarty

Friday, September 25th, 2020

11:00 AM - 01:00 PM

Other, Other
online

Logic Supergroup talk by Stewart Shapiro (OSU/UConn) & David McCarty (Indiana)

Intuitionistic Sets and Numbers: the theory SST

SST is a small intuitionistic set theory governing the hereditarily finite sets. It is based upon set induction. Simple as SST is, it seems remarkably strong: it deduces--within intuitionistic formal logic--all the axioms of ZF + AC, less the Axiom of Infinity, except that Separation is limited to decidable predicates. It is relatively straightforward to prove that SST has the usual Goedelian incompleteness properties. SST is definitionally equivalent to full, first-order intuitionistic arithmetic, aka Heyting Arithmetic. And SST manifests the attractive metamathematical properties of many intuitionistic mathematical theories--it supports a number of different realizability and topological interpretations and can be assumed to be categorical.

https://sites.google.com/view/logicsupergroup/the-logic-supergroup

Please contact Marcus Rossberg for log-in information.

Contact Information: marcus.rossberg@uconn.edu
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