Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Meeting
8/25/15
9/1/15
9/8/15
Module
Title
Readings
1 Big Questions
Introduction
What is Consciousness?
9/22/15
5 Historical Contexts
9/29/15
10/6/15
The Geological and Darwinian Revolutions Selections: Lyell, Cuvier, Lamarcke, Darwin
10/13/15
10/27/15
9 Contemporary Debates
10
Undergraduate
Assignment
Graduate Assignment
Quiz 1
9/15/15
11/3/15
Online
Comment/Analysis
of
Primary
Texts
Online
Comment/Analysis
of
Primary
Texts
Quiz 2
Online
Comment/Analysis
of
Primary
Texts
PowerPoint
Presentation
for
"Locke,
Hume,
and
Kant"
Online
Comment/Analysis
of
Primary
Texts
PowerPoint
Presentation
for
"On
Nature
and
the
Human"
Reading Worksheet
Reading Worksheet
11/10/15
11
L.
Malafouris
and
C.
Renfrew,
The
Cognitive
Life
of
Things:
Scheidel,
Walter.
Evolutionary
Psychology
and
Archaeology,
Material
Engagement
and
the
Extended
Mind,
the
Historian.
The
American
Historical
Review
The
Cognitive
Life
of
Things:
Recasting
the
Boundaries
of
the
119,
no.
5
(December
1,
2014):
156375.
Mind.
Cambridge:
McDonald
Institute
(2010):
112
doi:10.1093/ahr/119.5.1563.
In
Class
Group
Presentations
In
Class
Group
Presentations
Quiz
3
Debates
over
Human
Nature
Visualization/Paper
Rough
Draft
Reading Worksheet
Reading Worksheet
Group
1:
L.
Malafouris,
Metaplasticity
and
the
human
becoming:
principles
of
neuroarchaeology,
Journal
of
Anthropological
Sciences
88
(2010):
55-56
Malafouris,
The
brainartefact
interface
(BAI);
L.
Malafouris,
Beads
for
a
plastic
mind:
the
Blind
Mans
Stick(BMS)
hypothesis
and
the
active
nature
of
material
culture,
Cambridge
Archaeological
Journal
18,
no.
3
(2008):
401414
Steven
Mithen
and
Lawrence
Parsons,
The
Brain
as
a
Cultural
Artefact,
Cambridge
Archaeological
Journal
18,
no.
3
(2008):
415-422
Group
2:
Nicole
Boivin,
Material
Cultures,
Material
Minds:
The
Impact
of
Things
on
Human
Thought,
Society,
and
Evolution
(Cambridge
University
Press,
2010),
181-224
11/17/15
11/24/15
12
13
12/1/15
12/8/15
12/15/15
Final
Final Project