About Me
My research was for decades focused primarily in the philosophy of mind and language, specifically on belief and the predicates by which we attribute belief. To this end, I was 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. I was also interested 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).
Since retirement I have been active in wildlife and game management on my sister's and my South Texas ranch, raising Scimitar-horned Oryx (Oryx dammah), a species of North African antelope until recently extinct in the wild. My philosophical interests have accordingly shifted in the direction of issues associated with wildlife conservation and cognitive ethology.
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).
Since retirement I have been active in wildlife and game management on my sister's and my South Texas ranch, raising Scimitar-horned Oryx (Oryx dammah), a species of North African antelope until recently extinct in the wild. My philosophical interests have accordingly shifted in the direction of issues associated with wildlife conservation and cognitive ethology.