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The views expressed on this site are my own and do not in any way
reflect or represent those of my employer, Cornell University. Links
do not imply endorsement.
Land
Cornell University is located on the traditional homelands of the
Gayogohó:nǫˀ (the Cayuga Nation). The Gayogohó:nǫˀ are members of
the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, an alliance of six sovereign Nations
with a historic and contemporary presence on this land. The
Confederacy precedes the establishment of Cornell University, New
York State, and the United States of America. I acknowledge the
painful history of Gayogohó:nǫˀ dispossession and honor the ongoing
connection of Gayogohó:nǫˀ people, past and present, to these lands
and waters. I also acknowledge the
dispossession of other Native peoples by the Morrill Act
of 1862 — one of the sources of Cornell's endowment.
Publications
Teaching
"But if abstract science is a luxury and practice of medicine mere
chicane; if law spells injustice, and mechanical invention is but
the means of robbery; if the school, at variance with the wisdom
of the `practical man,' is sure to be overcome; and art without
the revolutionary idea can only degenerate, what remains for me to
do?"
Well, I will tell you.
A vast and most enthralling task; a work in which your actions
will be in complete harmony with your conscience, an undertaking
capable of rousing the noblest and most vigorous natures.
What work?
I will now tell you.
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Fall 2024:
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Confronting Climate Change (Psych 4430): M
11:15am - 1:45pm, 441 Statler Hall
[syllabus].
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Spring 2024:
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Fall 2023:
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Varieties of Freedom (Topics in Cognitive Science,
COGST 4310, crosslisted as: PSYCH 4320, BIONB 4330): M
11:15am - 1:45pm, 205 Uris Hall
[syllabus].
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Older courses.
A note to instructors. Teaching cognitive psychology? Looking
for a sound, comprehensive, and entertaining text that would help
the reader achieve genuine — that is, computational —
understanding of cognition? Consider
adopting Computing the Mind (see below) as your text.
What condition my condition is in
Books
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The
Consciousness Revolutions
(Springer Nature, April
2023). See the table of contents and the back cover
text for a little more info.
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Life, Death, and Other Inconvenient
Truths (MIT Press / Penguin Random House, October 2020).
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The Book of Beginnings (2014): a
psychological-philosophical science fiction (psy-phi
sci-fi) novella. Get it from — Amazon
— iTunes — Barnes&Noble.
Visit its Facebook Page.
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The Happiness of Pursuit (Basic Books, February 2012). A Kirkus starred selection and Must-Read in new nonfiction. Available
also in Italian.
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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).
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Being in Time: Dynamical Models of Phenomenal
Experience (John Benjamins, July 2012; Advances in Consciousness Research, vol. 88): see table of contents.
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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).
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Language Universals (Oxford University Press, 2009).
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[See also my Amazon author page]
Other online stuff
Varia
This space is intermittently under
construction. Meanwhile, here's some pseudorandom selection of content:
- An interview about my 2020
book, Life, Death, and Other Inconvenient
Truths, for the In Search of
Wisdom podcast (2021).
- A TEDxCornellUniversity
talk: The Brain's VR Engine & a Case for Humanist
Ethics (2018).
- Some of the photographs from my albums:
- The #DailyDesertPic series.
- Photos shared on my server:
- Some old 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
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wadi Arugot, near Ein Gedi, Israel [photos scanned from old color prints]
- Selections:
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Some old
talks and stuff
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Cycling around Ithaca,
NY
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Life, universe, and everything:
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Links
- Politics
- Free textbooks
- Experimentology: An Open Science Approach to
Experimental Psychology Methods
- Software
- General-purpose programming:
- Exploratory data analysis and statistics:
- The R language environment
(as powerful as the best commercial packages, and infinitely more
free).
- 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; now also supporting
collaborative projects via
Overleaf).
- The memoir class for typesetting books, poetry, and much
more.
- The Scrivener
software from the Literature and Latte project.
- Poetry (selections)
- Prose (selections, in no particular order)
- Online libraries:
- Periodicals and blogs
- Phenomena
- Family
- Varia
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Some of my former students
Datta.
Dayadhvam.
Damyata.
Shantih
shantih
shantih
Copyright
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including specifically the lecture material and the teaching aids therein)
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