Teaching

• Fall 2012 — Spring 2013: sabbatical.
• Spring 2012:
  • Computational Psychology [TR 11:40-12:55, Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, 132 Goldwin Smith Hall] (PSYCH/COGST/INFO 2140/6140). Note: you must take this course first if you plan ever to take the advanced course Consciousness and free will.
  • Reinforcement Learning: Computational and Brain Aspects (Topics in High-Level Vision) [W 10:10-12:35; 369 Uris Hall] (Cogst 4650/6650).
• Fall 2011:
  • 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).
• Older courses

For prospective graduate students: IMAGINE, or, how to get the best of two worlds.

Books

			Being in Time: Dynamical Models of Phenomenal Awareness co-edited with Tomer Fekete and Neta Zach
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).	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).	The Happiness of Pursuit (Basic Books, 2012). A Kirkus starred selection. See this book's own webpage.	Under contract with John Benjamins, in the series Advances in Consciousness Research.
A link to another book that I co-edited, Language Universals (2009), can be found on my Amazon Author page.

Other publications

• My online papers: the Experimental Epistemology Project REPRINT ARCHIVE.
• My blog on Psychology Today.
• My profile on Google Scholar Citations.

Varia

• 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
      • wadi Arugot, near Ein Gedi, Israel [photos scanned from old color prints]
    • Selections:
      • flowers
      • wabi sabi
      • Tel Aviv
      • Jerusalem
      • sunrises, moonsets, etc.
      • the human condition
• My curriculum vitae (PDF; also overview)
• Some old talks and stuff
• Cycling around Ithaca, NY
• Life, universe and everything:
• the journey to Ixtlan
• my God problem
• how the empire strikes back
• the future, from the Ha'aretz site.
• The Beauty of the World — from Ivan Bunin's story Тень птицы (The Shadow of the Bird).

Links

• Software
• General-purpose programming:
  • SBCL: Steel Bank Common Lisp.
  • (Why Lisp? Here; also this.)
• Exploratory data analysis and statistics:
  • The R language environment (as powerful as the best commercial packages, and infinitely more free).
  • The R Graph Gallery.
  • An introduction to R for psychologists.
  • An introduction to R for corpus linguistics and psycholinguistics.
• 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
• David Hume (I think, therefore I Hume).
• William James, to whose Principles of Psychology so much of cognitive science is but a footnote.
• People (alphabetically by last name)
• Nick Bostrom
• Daniel Dennett
• Jay L. Garfield
• Nicholas Gier
• John Goldsmith
• Thomas Metzinger
• Paul Postal
• Eytan Ruppin
• Jürgen Schmidhuber
• Aaron Sloman
• Josh Tenenbaum
• Poetry (selections)
• Perennials
• The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
• Иосиф Бродский (Joseph Brodsky), complete works
• רחל (Rachel), complete works
• Ulysses by Alfred Tennyson
• 十牛 (10 Bulls) by Kuòān Shīyuǎn (廓庵師遠)
• Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman
• Ode to Psyche by John Keats
• Ephemerals
• Some of my poems and translations
• Prose (selections)
• Ursula K. Le Guin
• Михаил Булгаков (Mikhail Bulgakov), complete works, including two English translations of The Master and Margarita
• Greg Egan
• Michael Swanwick
• Виктор Пелевин (Victor Pelevin)
• Jorge Luis Borges (some of the originals here)
• Stanisław Lem
• Vladimir Nabokov (Владимир Набоков; Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle)
• Iain M. Banks
• J. R. R. Tolkien
• Margaret Atwood
• Music (selections)
• Yair Dalal
• J. S. Bach
• Shye Ben-Tzur
• Gustav Mahler
• Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
• John Brown's Body
• Romica Puceanu
• Online libraries:
• Project Gutenberg
• Библиотека lib.ru
• The Online Library of Liberty
• Project Bartleby
• פרויקט בן-יהודה
• The Poetry Foundation
• Periodicals and blogs
• Frontiers in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
• Behavioral and Brain Sciences
• Language Log
• Phenomena
• Arts & Letters Daily
• Edge
• xkcd
• Pathsplitter (Björn Merker)
• Игорь Губерман
• 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
• photography page and portfolio by Ira Edelman
• music by Itamar Edelman
• Fontef: design by Yanek Iontef
• all*over*print: design by Ayelet Iontef
• Varia
• Some of my former students
  • Kalanit Grill-Spector
  • Zach Solan
• Natural Born Hikers

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