An interdisciplinary degree programme, drawing on expertise from across the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences with links to the School of Informatics. Did you know?Edinburgh is one of the places in the world where cognitive science's constituent disciplines first came together in the 1960s, and it was also a pioneering centre in the early development of Artificial Intelligence. We have developed that tradition of research and teaching ever since, and with our interdisciplinary approach and first-class facilities we are one of the most exciting places in the world to study the nature of mind.You will study how the mind works from a number of perspectives, considering how capacities like language, vision and reasoning are represented in the human mind, and how AI — past, present, and future —seeks to imitate and extend those abilities.You will be part of a small but engaged group of like-minded students, while being part of a larger community of students in each of the component subject areas. This article was published on 2026-04-10
