Marshall Abrams

Assistant Professor,  Department of Philosophy,
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Office: Humanities Building 418
Phone: (205) 996-7483
Email: mabrams@uab.edu

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Feel free to email, call, or stop by with questions about courses listed below.
(Information about my research can be found here.)

Spring 2010 course:  Minds and Machines

This course focuses on questions like the following: Can computers think? Is the mind just the brain's software? Could intelligence consist of following sophisticated rules? How could a machine understand metaphor, analogy, symbolism? Would a computer be smarter if it had emotions? How can states of a computer or states of a brain represent or be about things outside of the computer?

We'll approach such questions from the perspectives of
philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence, and cognitive psychology.

PHL 372-2C,  Tuesday and Thursday, 11:00am to 12:15pm