Shimon Edelman's Experimental Epistemology Project

Rationalists do it by the rules.
Empiricists  do it to the rules.

The Odyssey  ended  stopped for a breather in Ithaca, New York: I am at the Department of Psychology at Cornell University.


Teaching

  • Spring 2014:
    • Computational Principles of Psychology (Psych 3140).
    • Imagination and Creativity (Topics in Cognitive Science, COGST 4310, crosslisted as: PSYCH 4320, LING 4310, BIONB 4330).
  • Fall 2013:
    • Psychology of Power and Inequality (Psych 4030): M 2:00-4:25 (room TBA).
  • Spring 2013: sabbatical.
  • 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

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, February 2012). A Kirkus starred selection and Must-Read in new nonfiction (Feb. 16). See this book's own webpage. Jan. 2013: now available in Italian. Being in Time: Dynamical Models of Phenomenal Experience (John Benjamins, July 2012; Advances in Consciousness Research, vol. 88): see table of contents.
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 (recently inactive: I'm putting all my spare time into a new book).
  • My profile on Google Scholar Citations.

Varia

This space is intermittently under construction. Meanwhile, here's some pseudorandom selection of content:

Links

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