What is the overall claim?
Read headings and first sentences. Identify the shape of the position before judging it.
LEARNING UNIT 6 · 2 WEEKS · 10 HOURS · NO LOGIN
What is a mind—
and where does its structure come from?
Week 1 asks where knowledge comes from and what the mind is made of. Week 2 asks whether those answers are the same for everyone, everywhere.
Week 1 · 5 hEpistemology → mind, brain & AI
Week 2 · 5 hLanguage, culture & distributed cognition
Practice4 auto-marked activities × 10 points
THE LU6 QUESTION
MIND
KNOWLEDGEreason · experience
↔
BRAINdependence · qualia
↓
LANGUAGEencoding · relativity
↔
CULTUREschemas · practices
↓
WHERE IS COGNITION?brain · body · tools · community
HOW TO DISAGREE WELL
SUPPORTED
Evidence or argument strongly favours the claim.
CONTESTED
The dispute is live; represent it as disputed.
NOT SUPPORTED
The evidence does not license the stronger claim.
The uploaded module explicitly treats disagreement as part of the material. Your job is to identify what follows from the evidence—and what does not.
THREE-PASS METHOD
Read philosophy slowly
The source module gives one short method for every argument in the unit.
Claim → reason → support
Write what is claimed, what reason is offered, and what must be true for that reason to support the conclusion.
State the strongest objection
If you cannot state a charitable objection to a position, you probably have not understood it yet.
LEARN + PRACTISE
Four units, one argument about the mind
Open unit enters the full editorial reader. Practice opens a local 10-point self-check.
ORIGINAL MODULE SELF-CHECK
Ten open-ended questions · 30 marks
Answer from memory first. Then reveal the marking points. The instructor's full answer key remains private and is not published in the student site.
REFERENCE
Glossary & contested material
Search the consolidated glossary drawn from the uploaded source document.
MULTILINGUAL STUDY HELPER
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LOCAL PRACTICE
Your four unit practice scores
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