Present | Associate Director, University of Missouri-St. Louis ‐ Center for Neurodynamics | |
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Present | Curators' Distinguished Professor, University of Missouri-St. Louis ‐ Department of Philosophy | |
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2015 | Affiliate, University of Missouri-St. Louis ‐ Department of Gender Studies | |
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2015 | Visiting Professor, Washington University in St. Louis | |
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2011 | Fellow, Hebrew University of Jerusalem ‐ Institute for Advanced Studies | |
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2007 - 2009 | Visiting Assistant Professor, Politecnico di Torino ‐ SCUDO | |
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2003 - 2005 | James S. McDonnell Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Washington University in St. Louis ‐ Program in Philosophy, Neuroscience, and Psychology | |
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2002 - 2003 | Fellow, Charles Babbage Institute | |
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2001 - 2002 | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pittsburgh | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Professional Service and Affiliations
2005 - 2012 | Founder, The Brain Blog |
Honors and Awards
- K. Jon Barwise Prize, American Philosophical Association and the APA Committee on Philosophy and Computers, 2018
- Herbert A. Simon Award, International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP), 2014
- Outstanding Paper Presentation, Grad Expo, University of Pittsburgh, 2001
- Doctoral Scholarship, Regione Sardegna, 1995-2001
Courses
- Philosophy of Science
- Problem Solving: How Science Works
- Magic, Medicine, and Science
- Current Controversies in Cognitive Science: Computational Theories of Mind and Brain
- Current Controversies in Cognitive Science: Intentionality
- Computation and Nature
- Topics in Philosophy of Mind: Mental Content
- Ethics and the Computer
- Minds, Brains, and Machines
- Philosophy of Cognitive Science
- Topics in History and Philosophy of Science: Mechanisms and Functions
- Topics in Philosophy of Mind: Consciousness
- Philosophy of Language
- Philosophy of Mind
- Metaphysics
- Topics in Philosophy of Mind: Fodor, Churchland, Heil
- Topics in the Philosophy of Mind: Concepts
- Topics in Philosophy of Mind: Physicalism, Dualism, and the Afterlife
- Topics in Philosophy of Mind: Physicalism, Dualism, and the Afterlife
- Science vs. God
- Philosophy of Cognitive Science: Computation and Cognition
- Existentialism and Phenomenology
- Topics in Philosophy in Mind: Explaining Cognition
- Topics in the Philosophy of Mind: Current Controversies in Philosophy of Mind
- Theories of Knowledge
2003 | PhD, University of Pittsburgh | |
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1994 | BA, Università di Torino | |
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