Current and Recent Involvements

Current Positions  Professor of Philosophy, The University of Evansville, since 2003.

Director of Cognitive Science, The University of Evansville, since 2004. 

Co-chair (with Lora Becker), CNS Consortium, an organization to facilitate collaboration between UE's programs in the cognitive and neural sciences, since 2007.

Editor, Noesis: Philosophical Research Online, Since 1998. 

Affiliated Researcher, InPho: The Indiana Philosophy Ontology Project, Indiana University, since 2007.

Visiting Scholar, Cognitive Science Program, Indiana University, 2007-2009. 

Digital Humanities Fellow, The National Endowment for the Humanities, 2008-2009.

Member, Steering Committee, North American Division of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy, since 2004.

Member, Website Services Committee, Consortium on Cognitive Science Instruction (CCSI), 2008-2012.

Conference Work Invited Participant, Promoting Digital Scholarship: Formulating Research Challenges in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Computation. Sponsored by the Council on Library and Information Resources and the National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, D.C., September 15th, 2008.

Program Chair, Annual North American Meeting of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy, "Networks and Their Philosophical Implications," Indiana University (NA-CAP@IU), June 14th-16th, 2009.

Editorial Work Co-editor (with Colin Allen) of a special issue of Synthese: An International Journal for Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, "Representing Philosophy," 2007-2008.

Book Proposal Reviewer, Cambridge University Press, 2008; Columbia University Press, 2006; Polity Press, 2008; and Routledge, 2006 and 2008.

Papers in Process What Heidegger Still Can't Do: On Michael Wheeler's Reconstructing the Cognitive World.

Noesis and the Encyclopedic Internet Vision, forthcoming in the special issue of Synthese mentioned under 'Editorial Work' above.

Is Automated Moral Agency Desirable?

Edison and Bell: The Early History of the Information Age and the 4th Revolution

I am also busy with a cognitive modeling project to discover the associative capabilities of simple dynamic networks.

Book Reviews
in Process
Rethinking Commonsense Psychology: A Critique of Folk Psychology, Theory of Mind and Simulation by Matthew Ratcliffe, Journal of Consciousness Studies

The Phenomenological Mind: An Introduction to Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science by Shaun Gallagher and Dan Zahavi, Philosophical Psychology.

Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong by Wendall Wallach and Colin Allen, Ethics and Information Technology.

Presentations "Cognition without Computation: How New Mechanical Models Are Changing the Way We Think about Thinking," Crick Lecture in the Cognitive and Neural Sciences, University of Evansville, April 15th, 2009.

"Domain-Specific Search and the Encyclopedic Internet Vision,"
Network and Complex Systems Group, Indiana University, February 25th, 2008. (View Slides)

"Some Cognitive Functions of Elementary Artificial Networks," CNS Research Group, University of Evansville, January 21st, 2008. (View Slides)

Grants and Fellowships Digital Humanities Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2008-2009, $75,400.

Travel Grant for Noesis: Philosophical Research Online, Alumni Research and Scholarly Activity Fellowship, University of Evansville, 2008, $750.

Library Development Grant for Resources in the Cognitive and Neural Sciences, Wheeler Fund, University of Evansville, 2007, $1,250.

Travel Grant for Noesis: Philosophical Research Online, Alumni Research and Scholarly Activity Fellowship, University of Evansville, 2007, $750.