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Teaching
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Fall 2012 Spring 2013: sabbatical.
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Spring 2012:
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Fall 2011:
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Consciousness
and Free Will [prerequisite:
Psych/Cogst/Info 2140] [M 2:00-4:25, 202 Uris Hall] (PSYCH 4320, crosslisted as: COGST
4310, LING 4310, BIONB 4330).
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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.
For prospective graduate students: IMAGINE, or,
how to get the best of two worlds.
Books
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Being in Time: Dynamical Models of Phenomenal
Awareness co-edited with Tomer Fekete and Neta Zach |
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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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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,
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The Happiness of Pursuit (Basic Books, 2012). A Kirkus starred selection. See this book's own webpage.
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Under contract with John Benjamins, in the series Advances in Consciousness Research.
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A link to another book that I co-edited, Language Universals (2009), can be
found on my Amazon Author page.
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Other publications
Varia
This space is intermittently under
construction. Meanwhile, here's some pseudorandom selection of content:
- Some of the photographs from my albums:
- 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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My curriculum
vitae (PDF; also overview)
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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:
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 aquisition:
- The ADIOS (Automatic
DIstillation Of Structure) software package.
- CHILDES:
Child Language Data Exchange System (corpora and software).
- Writing:
- Emacs
(the best text editor in
the world, free).
- ESS: Emacs
Speaks Statistics.
- SLIME: the Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs.
- LaTeX
(production-quality typesetting, free). If you have a Mac,
get MacTex; if you not,
get a Mac first.
- The memoir class for typesetting books, poetry, and much
more.
- (Natural) Philosophy
- People (alphabetically by last name)
- Poetry (selections)
- Prose (selections)
- Music (selections)
- Online libraries:
- Periodicals and blogs
- Phenomena
- Peace
- 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
Datta.
Dayadhvam.
Damyata.
Shantih
shantih
shantih
Copyright
© 1999-2012 Shimon Edelman (שמעון אדלמן, Шимон Александр 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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