The formation of the Cognitive Science Society in the 1970s was one of many events that signaled an increasing interest in the study of cognition in ways that transcend disciplinary boundaries. Fields such as cognitive psychology, cognitive neurobiology, artificial intelligence, linguistics, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind, among other fields, share a common interest in the nature of knowledge, the means by which it is stored, acquired, and retrieved, and the ways it is used in thinking and problem solving. The interdisciplinary minor in Cognitive Science provides Trinity students the opportunity to study the nature of cognition from the point of view of these and other related disciplines, and to think about the relations among these various viewpoints.
Computer Science
Philosophy
Psychology
Dr. John Howland, Professor
Department of Computer Science
(210) 999-7364
jhowland@trinity.edu