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Teaching
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Spring 2020: sabbatical.
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Fall 2019:
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Spring 2019:
- Computational Psychology (Psych 3140): TR
11:40-12:55 (262 Uris Hall)
[see the S2019 syllabus].
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Inconvenient Truths (II) (Topics in
Cognitive Science, COGST 4310, crosslisted as: PSYCH 4320, LING 4310,
BIONB 4330): M 2:00-4:25 (205 Uris Hall). Syllabus
here. Contact the instructor with any questions.
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Fall 2018:
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Inconvenient Truths (I) (Topics in
Cognitive Science, COGST 4310, crosslisted as: PSYCH 4320, LING 4310,
BIONB 4330): M 2:00-4:25 (494 Uris Hall). Syllabus
here. Sign up for presentations
here. Contact the instructor with any questions.
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Spring 2018:
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Fall 2017:
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Older
courses.
A note to instructors. Teaching cognitive psychology? Looking for a
readable, comprehensive, modern text that would help the reader achieve genuine — that is,
computational — understanding of cognition? Consider
adopting Computing the Mind (see below) as your text.
Books
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The next book: coming in 2020 (under contract with
MIT Press).
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The Book of Beginnings (2014): a
psychological-philosophical science fiction (psy-phi
sci-fi) novella. Download it from — Amazon
— iTunes — Barnes&Noble.
Visit its Facebook Page.
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The Happiness of Pursuit (Basic Books, February 2012). A Kirkus starred selection and Must-Read in new nonfiction. Available
also in Italian.
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Being in Time: Dynamical Models of Phenomenal
Experience (John Benjamins, July 2012; Advances in Consciousness Research, vol. 88): see table of contents.
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Computing the Mind (Oxford
University Press, 2008): see table of contents; read reviews;
visit Facebook Page; see corrigenda. Used for teaching
at Cornell since 2006 (now also at NYU, Buffalo, BU,
and Wells).
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Representation
and Recognition in Vision (MIT
Press, 1999): see
table
of contents and introduction;
read online (for CogNet subscribers; if you connect from cornell.edu,
you are).
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Language Universals (Oxford University Press, 2009).
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[See also my Amazon author page]
Other publications
Varia
This space is intermittently under
construction. Meanwhile, here's some pseudorandom selection of content:
- Some of the photographs from my albums:
- The #DailyDesertPic series (every day, another photo from my
archives, posted to my Twitter account, collected and shared via Google Photos).
- Photos shared on Facebook
- Photos shared on Flickr
- Photos shared on my server:
- Hikes:
- Death Valley NP (March 2008)
- Fall
Canyon (Death Valley NP, March 2009)
- the Negev
Desert in May
- Tabletop Mountain Wilderness, AZ
- Mt. Ajo, Organ Pipe National Monument, AZ
- Echo Canyon, Chiricahua National Monument, AZ
- wadi Roded, the Lost
Canyon, and wadi Shehoret, near Eilat, Israel
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wadi Arugot, near Ein Gedi, Israel [photos scanned from old color prints]
- Selections:
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Some old
talks and stuff
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Cycling around Ithaca,
NY
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Life, universe, and everything:
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Links
- Software
- General-purpose programming:
- Exploratory data analysis and statistics:
- The R language environment
(as powerful as the best commercial packages, and infinitely more
free).
- Language acquisition:
- The ADIOS (Automatic
DIstillation Of Structure) software package.
- CHILDES:
Child Language Data Exchange System (corpora and software).
- Writing:
- (Natural) Philosophy
- People (alphabetically by last name)
Edward Abbey,
Nick Bostrom,
Daniel Dennett, Jay L. Garfield,
Roy Harris,
Thomas Metzinger, Paul Postal,
Jürgen
Schmidhuber, Aaron
Sloman, Josh Tenenbaum.
- Poetry (selections)
- Prose (selections)
- Music (selections)
- Online libraries:
- Periodicals and blogs
- Phenomena
- Peace
- is a pipe dream.
- سلام, שלום
- Peace rally at the Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, 12
November 2005: שיר לשלום [Shir
la-Shalom, Peace Song] (Quicktime, 22MB; performed by Miri Aloni, with
200,000 friends, including President Bill Clinton and Senator Hillary Rodham
Clinton, D-NY)
- Family and friends
- Varia
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Some of my former students
Datta.
Dayadhvam.
Damyata.
Shantih
shantih
shantih
Copyright
© 1999-2018 Shimon Edelman (שמעון אדלמן, Шимон Александр (Саша) Эдельман, 에델만시몬). Permission is granted to copy, distribute
and/or modify this document (namely, the information on this site,
including specifically the lecture material and the teaching aids therein)
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any
later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no
Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is
included in the
section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".
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