Teaching

• Spring 2013: sabbatical.
• Fall 2012:
  • 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).
• 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).
• Older courses

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, 2012). A Kirkus starred selection and Must-Read in new nonfiction (Feb. 16). See this book's own webpage.	The volume is in production (see the table of contents). It will be published in Sept. 2012 by 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 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). 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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