Philosophy of Cognitive Sciences is a short course that provides fundamental theories. They share lots of additional reading sources. Some links that I find useful for philosophy of the topic:
- Evolutionary Psychology
- Evolution of Language
- Niche Construction
- Chimpanzee culture social learning
- Language, embodiment, and the cognitive niche
- The hard problem of consciousness (short video)
- Overview of philosophical problems concerning consciousness
- Expecting Ourselves?
- Whatever next? Predictive brains, situated agents, and the future of cognitive science
- Spreading the Joy? Why the Machinery of Consciousness is (Probably) Still in the Head
- According to evolutionary psychology, evolutionary pressures would most likely produce a ‘modular’ mind.
- Language most likely developed through a combination of biological and cultural evolution.
- It is often unclear what "consciousness" means, and we should be careful when using colloquial terms like "consciousness" in science.
- The scientific study of consciousness is concerned with several different phenomena, including attention, wakefulness, and phenomenal experience itself, which are not always connected.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is quite good resource.
- The McGurk effect (short video)
- The Ames Illusion (short video)
- The Rotating Mask Illusion (short video)
- Turing's Model of The Mind
- Embodied Cognition
- McGeer and Passive Dynamic Bipedal Walking (short video)
- Cornell robots: all are autonomous, use little or no power and can't stand with parallel legs
- Cognition doesn't have to be just "in the head" - cognitive processing can be supported or complemented by bodily and environmental resources.
- Simple behaviors (like moving around an environment) are often driven by perception and don't necessarily require something like a clear plan or goal.
- When we take into account the role played by our cultural and linguistic environment, 'bodily' explanations of computing can scale up to higher (human) cognition.