William J. Rapaport
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Indiana
214 Bell Hall
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260
Phone: (716) 645-3180 x112
Email: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu
Website: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport
AOC
Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics, Knowledge Representation, Logic, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Critical Thinking, Cognitive Development. CRI: Philosophy of Language and Mind; Deixis, Narrative, and Discourse; Philosophy of Cognitivie Science; Intensional Knowledge Representation; Computational Linguistics.
Sample Publications
- Rapaport, William J. (2005), "Philosophy of Computer Science: An Introductory Course", Teaching Philosophy 28(4): 319-341.
- Rapaport, William J. (2007), "How Helen Keller Used Syntactic Semantics to Escape from a Chinese Room", Minds and Machines (forthcoming)
- Rapaport, William J. (2007), "Searle on Brains as Computers", American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Computers and Philosophy (forthcoming)
- Rapaport, William J.; & Kibby, Michael W. (2007) "Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition as Computational Philosophy and as Philosophical Computation", Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence (forthcoming)