This is a course designed to explore the ways in which contemporary cognitive science can bear on the traditional questions of philosophy. So, for example, the course might look at Nietzsche’s account of morality in light of contemporary work in moral cognition, or it might look Plato’s discussion of parts of the soul in light of recent research on “dual processing”. There will be a lot of serious cognitive science, but there will also be a fair amount of serious philosophical rumination.