{"id":27,"date":"2017-08-20T21:07:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T01:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2026-03-04T22:46:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T03:46:54","slug":"teaching","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">S p r i n g \u00a0\u00a02 0 2 6\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s5\">C<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0o u r s e s<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s3\">\u2014 PHIL\/COGS\/ENVI 216 Philosophy of Animals<br \/>\n\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/files\/2021\/09\/introcogsciFall21.pdf\">COGS\/PSYC\/PHIL 222<\/a>\u00a0Minds, Brains, and Intelligent Behavior: An Introduction to Cognitive Science<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">P r e v i o u s \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s9\">C<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0o u r s e s<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\"><span class=\"s3\">\u2014 Introduction to Philosophy: Mind and Reality<br \/>\n\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/files\/2017\/08\/skeprelsyllabus2015.pdf\">Skepticism &amp; Relativism<\/a> Tutorial for First-Year Students<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/files\/2026\/03\/consc20a.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Embodiment and Consciousness: A Cross-Cultural Exploration<\/a> w\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/religion.williams.edu\/faculty\/georges-dreyfus\">Georges Dreyfus<\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"s1\"><span class=\"s3\">\u2014 Philosophy Senior Seminar: 21st Century Epistemology<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s1\"><span class=\"s3\">\u2014 Cognitive Science Senior Seminar: Advanced Topics in Cognitive Science<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s1\"><span class=\"s3\">\u2014 Philosophy Senior Seminar: Skepticism<br \/>\n<\/span>\u2014 Contemporary Philosophy of Mind<span class=\"s3\"><br \/>\n\u2014 History of Modern Philosophy<br \/>\n\u2014 Ethics of AI<br \/>\n\u2014 21st Century Epistemology<br \/>\n\u2014 Tutorial on Consciousness<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/files\/2017\/08\/Introduction-to-Moral-and-Political-Philosophy-copy.pdf\"><span class=\"s3\">Introduction to Moral &amp; Political Philosophy<\/span><\/a><span class=\"s4\"><br \/>\n<\/span>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/files\/2017\/08\/Hume-Tutorial.pdf\"><span class=\"s3\">Tutorial on Hume&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Treatise of Human Nature<\/em><\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/files\/2017\/08\/History-of-Modern-Philosophy.pdf\"><span class=\"s3\">History of Modern Philosophy<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/files\/2017\/08\/Language-and-Mind.pdf\"><span class=\"s3\">Philosophy of Language &amp; Philosophy of Mind<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/files\/2017\/08\/Contemporary-Epistemology-Syllabus.pdf\"><span class=\"s3\">Contemporary Epistemology<\/span><\/a> (and a slightly modified\u00a0<span class=\"s3\">tutorial version<\/span>)<br \/>\n\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/files\/2017\/08\/Conceptsseminar.pdf\"><span class=\"s3\">Concepts<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/files\/2017\/08\/kant.pdf\"><span class=\"s3\">Kant&#8217;s <i>Critique of Pure Reason<\/i><\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\u2014 <span class=\"s3\">Philosophical Naturalism<\/span><br \/>\n\u2014 <span class=\"s3\">Philosophy of Psychology<\/span><br \/>\n\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/files\/2017\/08\/Connectionism.pdf\">Neural Network Models of Cognition<\/a> (with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hampshire.edu\/faculty\/neil-stillings\">Neil Stillings<\/a>)<br \/>\n\u2014 <span class=\"s3\">Relativism &amp; Truth<\/span><br \/>\n\u2014 <span class=\"s3\">Foundations &amp; Methods of Cognitive Science<\/span><br \/>\n\u2014 <span class=\"s3\">A History of Psychology<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/hampshire.edu\/~jlcCCS\/episty.html\"><span class=\"s4\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><br \/>\nR e s o u r c e s \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">f o r \u00a0 S<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0t u d e n t s<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\u2014 Introduction to metaphysics and epistemology <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/philosophywritingtutor\/\"><span class=\"s3\">writing tutor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">T h i n g s \u00a0 I \u00a0 a m \u00a0 t h i n k i n g \u00a0 a b o u t<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"s1\">(Feel welcome to ask me about them if you are, too)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p9\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span class=\"s1\">Free-energy approaches to life and mind; complex systems; aesthetics and cognition; war memorials in former Yugoslavia; ethics and AI; generative models including LLMs; irrationality; skepticism; eliminativism\/mind as mechanism; neural constraints on cognitive explanations; animal cognition; Hume; reducing animal suffering; stream of consciousness literature; sports and embodied cognition.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; S p r i n g \u00a0\u00a02 0 2 6\u00a0 \u00a0C\u00a0o u r s e s \u2014 PHIL\/COGS\/ENVI 216 Philosophy of Animals \u2014 COGS\/PSYC\/PHIL 222\u00a0Minds, Brains, and Intelligent Behavior: An Introduction to Cognitive Science P r e v i o u s \u00a0\u00a0C\u00a0o u r s e s \u2014 Introduction to Philosophy: Mind and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/teaching\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Teaching&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":862,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/862"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":77,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}