George Hoffmann, Honors Program | 2018-2019
The intriguing but problematic HBO series Westworld provides a framework for a set of challenging readings on the philosophy of mind. The course seeks to bridge issues with contemporary technology and longstanding philosophical problems. It further seeks to revitalize a traditional humanities curriculum by confronting some of the most challenging problems to emerge from cognitive science and artificial intelligence. I thus harness various technological platforms to some very old aims: slow reading and slow writing. (I can provide a syllabus, if needed).