University of Edinburgh

This course is an introduction to cognitive science. It provide a selective but representative overview of the subject, suitable for all interested students, including students on the cognitive science degrees and external students. The lecturing team presents a unified view of the field, based on a computational approach to analyzing cognition. The material is organized by cognitive function (e.g., language, vision), rather than by subdiscipline (e.g., psychology, neuroscience). The course covers language, vision, memory, control and action, and reasoning and generalization. All topics are presented from a computational point of view, and this perspective is reinforced by lab sessions in which students implement simple cognitive models.

This course provides a broad foundation in architectural acoustics and the human perception of sound ("psychological acoustics", or "psychoacoustics"), that may be grasped by students from a range of backgrounds. The course brings these subjects together through both theoretical study and a range of practical applications. For example, students explore how the principles of architectural and psychological acoustics have recently come together to drive a revolution in the world of augmented (AR) and virtual reality (VR) systems. This course provides a broad foundation in both architectural and psychological acoustics that combines aspects of acoustics, architecture, engineering, informatics, and music. Whether you are a student of one of these subjects or not, the only formal requirement is that you should have achieved a good pass in mathematics at Higher/A-Level.

This is a second course in real analysis at the University of Edinburgh and builds on ideas in the analysis portion of Fundamentals of Pure Mathematics. The course begins with sequences and series of real numbers, introducing the concept of Cauchy sequences and results for bounded sequences. Subsequently, sequences and series of functions are introduced and concepts of uniform convergence and power series are discussed. The concept of Lebesgue integral on real line is then developed. Finally, the rudiments of Fourier series are introduced.
 

The course is a survey course concerned with the histories, languages, literatures, and cultures of the Celtic-speaking peoples from the Iron Age until the end of the Middle Ages. Its principal objective is to guide students to a fully contextualized understanding of the languages, nations, and material and artistic cultures that came to be considered 'Celtic'. Topics include Greek and Roman authors' description of 'Celts' (i.e., in central Europe, Gaul, and Britain) alongside those peoples' visible artefacts and literature; the speakers of Celtic languages (e.g., Welsh and Gaelic) in medieval Britain and Ireland and their emerging intellectual culture; and the ways in which Celtic-speaking peoples understood themselves or were understood by others, and how they related to each other.

The course provides an introduction to the main problems in epistemology and metaphysics. Topics vary by year, and may include defining knowledge, skepticism, testimony, disagreement, modality, universals and particulars, causation, free will, and social/feminist metaphysics and epistemology.