Bryn Mawr College
Department of Philosophy
and the
Delaware Valley Distinguished Lecture Series in Computer Science
Jointly
hosted by: Bryn Mawr College, Haverford College, Swarthmore College,
and Villanova University
presents
a lecture by
William J. Rapaport
Associate Professor of Computer Science &
Director of Graduate Studies
University
at Buffalo (SUNY)
“Philosophy of
Computer Science”
William
J. Rapaport is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer
Science and Engineering, an affiliated faculty member in the Departments
of Philosophy and of Linguistics, and a member of the Center for Cognitive
Science, all at State University of New York at Buffalo.
His
research interests are in cognitive science, artificial intelligence,
computational linguistics, knowledge representation and reasoning, contextual
vocabulary acquisition, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language,
critical thinking, and cognitive development. His research has been
supported by the National Science Foundation and the
National Endowment for the Humanities.
Free and open to the public