In the schedule below the two assigned books are designated by acronyms:
CITW = Cognition in the Wild
StM = Supersizing the Mind
Other readings are provided directly via links on this page.
Lectures slides will be posted on this page on or before the day of lecture.
Lecture audio will be available as a podcast at: http://podcast.ucsd.edu
Lecture notes will be available via AS Lecture notes http://lecturenotes.ucsd.edu

Thursday, September 23
Introduction and overview of course: course mechanics, basic themes.
What is happening today in cognitive science.
Lecture: Introduction

Tuesday, September 28  
The centralized mindset. How we can break free of the centralized mindset. Five heuristics for thinking about decentralized systems.
Readings: "Learning about Life" and "Cognition, Distributed" Preparation for readings
A library of NetLogo models of emergent phenomena
Lecture: Centralized Mindset

Thursday, September 30  
The socio-technical context of ship navigation.
Readings: CITW Introduction and Ch 1 Preparation for reading
Lecture: Chapter 1 CitW
Take the plagiarism tutorial and quiz

Tuesday, October 5
Classical Cognitive Science, cognition as computation.Physical symbol system hypothesis, propagation of representations.
Reading: Physical Symbol Systems Preparation for reading
Lecture: Thinking Meat?!
Writing Assignment 1 Open Login to Calibrated Peer Review and setup an account

Tuesday, October 19
Social Organization affects the cognitive properties of groups, the coordination of action, paradox of the commons, traffic jams, juries, committees, voting schemes, fractal structure of cognition.
Reading: CITW Ch 4 Preparation for reading; CITW Ch 5 Preparation for reading
Lecture: Social Organization of Distributed Cognition
Writing Assignment 1 Deadline to complete Reviews

Thursday, October 21 
The context of learning and Learning in Context
Reading: CITW Ch 6, Preparation for reading, CITW Ch 7 Preparation for Reading
Lectures: Learning a Sequence, Error Detection
Writing Assignment 2 Open

Tuesday, October 26  
Organizational Learning, unplanned adaptive change, evolution and design of organizations.
Reading: CITW Ch 8 Preparation for reading
Lecture: ProcedureEvolution, Cockpit DCOG

Thursday, October 28  
Midterm Exam
Writing Assignment 2 Deadline to submit text is Friday October 29 at 5:00 pm

Tuesday, November 2
The body in the world.
Readings: StM Appendix, Introduction
Lecture: Where is Mind?

Thursday, November 4 
The body in the world continued plus a bit of philosophy of science
Readings: StM Ch 1 & Ch 2
Lecture: Embodiment to Cognitive Extension
Writing Assignment 2 Deadline to complete Reviews is Friday November 5 at 5:00 pm

Tuesday, November 9
The world around the body
Readings: StM Ch 3 & Ch 4
Lecture: EmbodimentByTylerMarghetis

Thursday, November 11
Veterans Day
Writing Assignment 3 Open

Tuesday, November 16
Doubts about extended mind and the cure for cognitive hiccups
Reading: StM Ch 5 & 6.
Lecture: Epistemic Engineers

Thursday, November 18
Rediscovering the brain and sensorimotor looping
Reading: StM Ch 7 & 8
Lecture: Enacted Representation
Writing Assignment 3 Deadline to submit text
Saturday November 20, 8:00 PM

Tuesday, November 23
Disentangling embodiment
Reading: StM Ch 9 & 10
Lectures: Disentangling Embodiment,
Thinking with the Body

Thursday, November 25
Thanksgiving Holiday

Tuesday, November 30
Embodiment in the big picture of cognitive science
Readings: SSM Clark; SSM Rupert; SSM Wheeler
Lecture StMSymposium Summary, Prof's annotated version of Clark's response

Thursday, December 2
Culture and Cognition, what we miss by failing to see cognition as a cultural process.
Readings: CITW Ch 9, SSM Hutchins Preparation for reading
Lectures: DCogOverview, Science of Mind Gymnastics
Writing Assignment 3 Deadline to complete Reviews
Satureday December 4, 8:00 PM