Student will learn to reason critically: analyze the logical structure of arguments, construct and criticize arguments, analyze concepts and evaluate definitions, understand the relevance and use of empirical evidence, and how to employ and evaluate it. The individual will learn to write clearly and convincingly, in a way that articulates critical reasoning. The successful student will become conversant with the central problems and advances in the philosophical, scientific, anthropological, and sociological study of the mind and cognition. This student will also become familiar with central works in the philosophy of psychology and cognitive science.
This program prepares the student for graduate study in philosophy, and more generally for those professions in which it is central to employ clear thinking and a reasoned justification of opinion, and to integrate information from a diverse range of perspectives and traditions.