MASTER IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE PHILOSOPHY (PHILO)

cog-SUP is a 2-year interdisciplinary and collaborative master’s program in cognitive science co-administered by Université Paris Cité and Sorbonne Université. It offers a very broad interdisciplinary openness and a fundamentally collaborative spirit, bringing together professors, researchers and students from very different backgrounds, united by common research questions.

The program is structured around a unified core curriculum complemented by robust disciplinary tracks. To maintain a well-balanced and foundationally sound interdisciplinary education, cog-SUP is organized into six different tracks. These tracks ensure the acquisition of genuine expertise in the concepts, methods, and techniques specific to each discipline, enhancing the clarity of skills associated with the diploma. The program establishes a common cultural foundation from the first year (M1) through a core curriculum and introductory courses to the different disciplines. In the second year (M2), the majority of courses are fully interdisciplinary and open to students from all tracks. Our goal is to cultivate cognitivists equipped with both robust disciplinary expertise and a broad interdisciplinary culture, essential elements for fostering meaningful collaboration across disciplines.

The philosophy (PHILO) track proposes a balanced program, based on solid disciplinary foundations (in ethics, logic, epistemology, philosophy of cognitive science, philosophy of biology), while also providing cutting-edge knowledge in the main fields of cognitive science (automatic language processing, cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, computational neuroscience and AI). In addition to content-based courses, we offer the opportunity to acquire skills in data processing (data camp, programming), experimental methods and neuroimaging. Our students can complete a laboratory internship if they wish to carry out an interdisciplinary project with an experimental aspect, or write a philosophical dissertation, in both their first and second years.

Graduates of this program can pursue a doctorate in cognitive science, philosophy of mind, epistemology, philosophy of science, or move into the many careers where the argumentative and experimental skills we impart are valued.

• Provide students with the knowledge and tools required in Cognitive Science
• Foster a fruitful collaborative spirit between students
• Respect scientific ethics
• Design and develop scientific projects
• Implement a project, define the objectives and context, carry out and evaluate the action
• Conduct and develop scientific and technical projects
• Analyze and interpret the results of scientific experiments
• Master specific methods and tools
• Use information and communication technologies
• Conduct information research, identify access modes, analyze relevance, explain and transmit
• Scientific communication in English
• Teamwork: integrating, positioning and collaborating
• Integrate into a professional environment: identify your skills and communicate them