PHIL 2350

Really fun topics and challenges your perspective of the world. Two lectures + One Discussion per week. Excellent TAs and the professor is very friendly. He always stays after class for questions. The lectures are not that engaging, it usually introduces an argument and provides a couple of objections. Our paper had to tackle these moral challenges and explain through your own understanding of the subject. The discussion sections are a must-go; it not only helps you absorb the material; but also helps your term paper and argument building. Believe me, your view of the world and mind would be completely changed after taking this course.

This was my first ever philosophy class. I feel like the instructors did a great job at gearing the class towards newcomers like me, they always explained philosophical concepts in ways that were easy to understand and basically assumed I walked in with zero background in philosophy (which I did). The lectures were all recorded but discussion attendance (once a week) was mandatory for a participation grade. My TA was Prof. Welchance, who was awesome at breaking down concepts in ways that were easy to understand.
I found the content pretty interesting. To be clear, this is not a class about the "ethics of AI" (like copyright and stuff), it's more like Turing Test stuff (like, "what is intelligence?" or "do AIs have real thoughts or do they just simulate thoughts?") It was kind of all over the place, sometimes it felt like we were just using AI as an excuse to talk about more pervasive questions in the field of philosophy (which personally didn't bother me at all). Other times, we got into some more nitty gritty details about how AIs work. It was really interesting to think about philosophical questions that even those who are very knowledgable about the technical details of AI aren't able to answer.