Computing the Mind: Shimon Edelman's Experimental Epistemology Project

Shimon Edelman's Experimental Epistemology Project

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

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

Teaching et cetera

Spring 2009:

Consciousness and Free Will [prerequisite: Psych/Cogst/Info 2140] [M 2:00-4:25, room TBA] (PSYCH 5310 / COGST 4310 / BIONB 4330)
Object Recognition and Scene Understanding [T 2:00-4:25, room TBA] (PSYCH/COGST 4650)

Fall 2008:

Cognitive Psychology [MWF 11:15-12:05, Hollis Cornell Auditorium] (PSYCH/COGST/INFO 2140/6140) (the course website is being constructed week by week)
Note: you must take 2140 first if you plan to take the advanced course Consciousness and free will in the spring.

Spring 2008:

Borges and I: a Quest for Self-Knowledge [prerequisite: Psych/Cogst/Info 214] [M 2:00-4:25, UH 260] (PSYCH/COGST ~~231~~ 531)
[note: in Spring 2009, this course will be called "Consciousness and free will" and will be numbered Psych 5310 / Cogst 4310 / Bio 4330]
Computation in the Brain [T 2:00-4:25, UH 438] (PSYCH/COGST 465)

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


Representation and Recognition in Vision (MIT Press, 1999): table of contents; introduction; full-text online access for CogNet subscribers (if you connect from cornell.edu, you are).	Computing the Mind (Oxford University Press, 2008): see table of contents; read reviews; order; visit Facebook Page; see corrigenda. Draft used in the cognitive psychology course (Psych 214; also Psych 231) at Cornell in '06-7, '07-8. The first edition is used this year.

Other publications

My online papers: the Experimental Epistemology Project REPRINT ARCHIVE.

Varia

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

Some of the photographs from my albums:
- Hikes:
  - Death Valley, CA
  - 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:
My curriculum vitae (PDF; also overview)
Some old talks and stuff
Cycling around Ithaca, NY
Life, universe and everything:

Opportunities for graduate study

Interested in how brains (natural or artificial) work? Apply to the Cornell Graduate School and join one of my projects in vision or language. I accept students in the following graduate fields:

Note. You are, in principle, free to think, read, and (within reasonable limits) do what you want, any old time. Be aware, however, that your mileage may vary depending on location. If in doubt, apply for the permission of your pastor, ayatollah, priest, minister, imam, rabbi, GOP censor/invigilator, or any other local spiritual/moral authority (ever heard the one about two hypocrites meeting under the cherry blossoms?).

Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata. Shantih shantih shantih

Copyright © 1999-2008 Shimon Edelman (שמעון אדלמן, Шимон Александр Эдельман). 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". Last modified on Mon Oct 6 17:27:51 2008