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Current and Recent Involvements |
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| Administration | Director of Cognitive
Science, The University of Evansville, since 2004.
Co-chair (with Lora Becker), Crick Lecture Series in the Cognitive and Neural Sciences, since 2005. Co-chair (with Lora Becker), CNS Consortium, an organization to facilitate collaboration between UE's programs in the cognitive and neural sciences, since 2007. |
| Computer Work | Researcher, InPho:
The Indiana Philosophy Ontology Project, Cognitive Science
Program, Indiana University, since 2007.
I am also busy with a cognitive modeling project to discover the associative capabilities of an elementary artificial network for use with Noesis. |
| Workshop 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, "The Limits of Computation," Indiana University (NA-CAP@IU), July 10th-12th, 2008. Program Chair, Annual North American Meeting of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy, "Free and Open Source Software and Open Access Publication," Loyola University (NA-CAP@Loyola), July 26th-28th, 2007. |
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| 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, Columbia University Press, 2006; Polity Press, 2008; and Routledge, 2006 and 2008. Noesis: Philosophical Research Online, Since 1998. |
| 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. |
| Papers in Process | Is (Artificial) Kantian
Moral Agency Desirable?
Folk Psychology and the Psychology of the Folk Noesis and the Encyclopedic Internet Vision |
| Book
Reviews in Process |
The Phenomenological Mind:
An Introduction to Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science by Shaun
Gallagher and Dan Zahavi, Philosophical Psychology, in progress.
Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong by Wendall Wallach and Colin Allen, Ethics and Information Technology, in progress. |
| Presentations | "Domain-Specific Search and
the Encyclopedic Internet Vision," Network and Complex Systems Group, Indiana University, February 25th, 2008. (View Slides) "Is Noesis Noetic and Why Does this Matter?" CNS Research Group, University of Evansville, February 11th, 2008. (View Slides) "Some Cognitive Functions of Elementary Artificial Networks," CNS Research Group, University of Evansville, January 21st, 2008. (View Slides) |
| 2007-2008 Courses | COGS 111: Introduction to
Cognitive Science - Fall
2007 Syllabus / Spring
2008 Syllabus
PHIL 221: Modern European Philosophy - Spring 2008 Syllabus PHIL 301h: Seminar: Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience - Fall 2007 Syllabus PHIL 311: Phenomenology and Existentialism - Fall 2007 Syllabus PHIL 359h: Seminar: Kierkegaard's Stages on Life's Way - Spring 2008 Syllabus
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