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Teaching
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Fall 2021:
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Varieties of Freedom (Topics in
Cognitive Science, COGST 4310, crosslisted as: PSYCH 4320,
BIONB 4330).
[see
the provisional reading list; comments welcome!]
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Spring 2021:
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Fall 2020:
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Practical Approaches to Saving the World (Topics in
Cognitive Science, COGST 4310, crosslisted as: PSYCH 4320,
BIONB 4330): M 3:13pm-5:40pm (synchronous online only, via Zoom).
[see brief
description; final syllabus (8/17/2020)].
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Spring 2020: sabbatical.
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Fall 2019:
- Inequality, Power, and Happiness (Psych 4030): M
2:00-4:25 (494 Uris Hall)
[the F2019 syllabus].
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Spring 2019:
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Fall 2018:
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Inconvenient Truths (I) (Topics in
Cognitive Science, COGST 4310, crosslisted as: PSYCH 4320,
BIONB 4330): M 2:00-4:25 (494 Uris Hall). Syllabus
here. Sign up for presentations
here.
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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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Life, Death, and Other Inconvenient Truths (MIT
Press / Penguin Random House, October 2020). For buying options,
click here.
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The Book of Beginnings (2014): a
psychological-philosophical science fiction (psy-phi
sci-fi) novella. Get 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:
- A TEDxCornellUniversity
talk: The Brain's VR Engine & a Case for Humanist
Ethics (2018).
- Some of the photographs from my albums:
- The #DailyDesertPic series.
- Photos shared on my server:
- Some old 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
- Politics
- 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:
- 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; now also supporting
collaborative projects via
Overleaf).
- The memoir class for typesetting books, poetry, and much
more.
- The Scrivener
software from the Literature and Latte project.
- (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)
- Online libraries:
- Periodicals and blogs
- Phenomena
- Family and friends
- Varia
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Some of my former students
Datta.
Dayadhvam.
Damyata.
Shantih
shantih
shantih
Copyright
© 1999-2020 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)
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Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is
included in the
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