wjrapaport@gmail.com
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | computer science & cognitive science |
| Location | Greenhurst, New York, United States |
| Introduction | CSE Eminent Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering; affiliated faculty member emeritus, Depts. of Philosophy and of Linguistics; member emeritus, Center for Cognitive Science, all at SUNY Buffalo. Previously, Associate Professor of Philosophy, SUNY Fredonia. BA (math), University of Rochester; PhD (philosophy), Indiana University; MS (computer science), SUNY Buffalo. Research interests: cognitive science, AI, computational linguistics, knowledge representation and reasoning, contextual vocabulary acquisition, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, critical thinking, cognitive development. SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, International Association for Computing and Philosophy's Covey Award for "senior scholars with a substantial record of innovative research in the field of computing and philosophy broadly conceived'', and the American Philosophical Association's Barwise Prize "for significant and sustained contributions to areas relevant to philosophy and computing by an APA member''. |
| Interests | philosophy of computer science (https://www.cse.buffalo.edu//~rapaport/Papers/phics.pdf) |