About Me
My research has been focused primarily in the philosophy of mind and language, specifically on belief and the predicates by which we attribute belief. To this end, I have been concerned to develop a measurement-theoretic account of propositional attitudes and the predicates by which we attribute them, an account that takes propositional attitudes to be complex dispositions for behavior, cognition, and affect. More recently I have become interested in the cultural construction of belief.
I continue to be interested also in issues in the foundations of cognitive science, especially as they have to do with language and with computational models of mind and brain processes.
I have a BS in engineering and an MS in engineering mechanics and applied mathematics from Cornell, an MA in philosophy from Georgetown, and a PhD in French literature and philosophy from Cornell.
I retired from Rutgers in 1917, having taught there since 1974. Over the years I held visiting research positions at Harvard, MIT, the University of Western Ontario, the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at the University of Bielefeld (Germany), the Institute for Advanced Study at the Hebrew University, Jersualem, and most recently at Ruhr-Universitat, Bochum (Germany).
I continue to be interested also in issues in the foundations of cognitive science, especially as they have to do with language and with computational models of mind and brain processes.
I have a BS in engineering and an MS in engineering mechanics and applied mathematics from Cornell, an MA in philosophy from Georgetown, and a PhD in French literature and philosophy from Cornell.
I retired from Rutgers in 1917, having taught there since 1974. Over the years I held visiting research positions at Harvard, MIT, the University of Western Ontario, the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at the University of Bielefeld (Germany), the Institute for Advanced Study at the Hebrew University, Jersualem, and most recently at Ruhr-Universitat, Bochum (Germany).