WILLIAM J. RAPAPORT

CURRICULUM VITA

29 August 2001

EDUCATION:

• Ph.D., 1976, Indiana University (philosophy; mathematics minor)
  Dissertation: Intentionality and the Structure of Existence (Director: Hector-Neri Castañeda)
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• M.S., 1984, State University of New York at Buffalo (computer science)
  Thesis: Belief Representation and Quasi-Indicators (Director: Stuart C. Shapiro)

• A.M., 1974, Indiana University (philosophy)

• B.A., 1968, University of Rochester (mathematics; philosophy minor)

• graduate studies (mathematics), 1968-1971, Courant Institute, New York University

• graduate studies (mathematics education), 1968-1969, TEMPUS Program, School of Education, CUNY City College

EXPERIENCE:

• Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
  State University of New York at Buffalo
  Associate Professor (1998-present)

• Department of Computer Science, State University of New York at Buffalo
  Associate Professor (1988-1998);
  Assistant Professor (1986-1988);
  Visiting Assistant Professor (1984-1986)

• Department of Philosophy, State University of New York at Buffalo
  Adjunct Professor (1994-present)

• Department of Philosophy, State University of New York, College at Fredonia
  Associate Professor (1983-1984);
  Assistant Professor (1976-1983; on leave, 1982-1983)

• Department of Mathematics, Indiana University
  Associate Instructor (1975)

• Department of Philosophy, Indiana University
  Research Assistant (9/72-8/75);
  Associate Instructor (1971-1972)

• Walden School, New York, NY
  Director of high-school mathematics program (1969-1971)

• Inwood Junior High School 52M, New York, NY
  7th-Grade Mathematics Teacher (1968-1969)

• Books:

  1. Schagrin, Morton L.; Rapaport, William J.; & Dipert, Randall R. (1985), Logic: A Computer Approach (New York: McGraw-Hill).

     • Japanese translation, Logic and Algorithms, by Takemasa Ooya (Tokyo: McGraw-Hill Japan, 1986).

     • Italian translation, Logica e Computer, by Gianfranco Forni, revised by Marco Colombetti (Milan: McGraw-Hill Libri Italia, 1986).

     • Italian student edition, Logica e Computer, by Gianfranco Forni, adapted by Maria Cristina Valenti (Milan: McGraw-Hill Libri Italia, Divisione scuola, 1986).

     • reprinted in Taiwan.

  2. Orilia, Francesco, & Rapaport, William J. (eds.) (1998a), Thought, Language, and Ontology: Essays in Memory of Hector-Neri Castañeda, Philosophical Studies Series (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers).

  3. Rapaport, William J. (1996, in preparation), Understanding Understanding: Semantics, Computation, and Cognition; pre-printed as Technical Report 96-26 (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Department of Computer Science).

• Edited Journals:

  1. Rapaport, William J. (guest editor) (1991), Special Issue on Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, Noûs, Vol. 25, No. 4.

  2. Galbraith, Mary, & Rapaport, William J. (guest editors) (1995), Where Does I Come From? Special Issue on Subjectivity and the Debate over Computational Cognitive Science, Minds and Machines, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 513-620.

• Refereed Journal Articles:

  1. Rapaport, William J. (1974), "Paper Folding and Convergent Sequences", Mathematics Teacher 67: 453-457.

  2. Rapaport, William J. (1976), "On Cogito Propositions", Philosophical Studies 29: 63-68.

  3. Rapaport, William J. (1978), "Meinongian Theories and a Russellian Paradox", Noûs 12: 153-180; errata, Noûs 13 (1979) 125.

  4. Rapaport, William J. (1979), "An Adverbial Meinongian Theory", Analysis 39: 75-81.

  5. Rapaport, William J. (1981), "How to Make the World Fit Our Language: An Essay in Meinongian Semantics", Grazer Philosophische Studien 14: 1-21.

  6. Rapaport, William J. (1982), "Unsolvable Problems and Philosophical Progress", 1982 Prize Essay, American Philosophical Quarterly 19: 289-298.

  7. Rapaport, William J. (1983), "Meinong, Defective Objects, and (Psycho-)Logical Paradox", Grazer Philosophische Studien 18: 17-39.

  8. Rapaport, William J. (1984), Critical study of Richard Routley's Exploring Meinong's Jungle and Beyond, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 44: 539-552.

  9. Rapaport, William J. (1985), "To Be and Not To Be", Noûs 19: 255-271.

  10. Rapaport, William J. (1985/1986), "Non-Existent Objects and Epistemological Ontology", Grazer Philosophische Studien 25/26: 61-95.

      • Reprinted in Rudolf Haller (ed.), Non-Existence and Predication (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1986).

  11. Rapaport, William J. (1986), "Searle's Experiments with Thought", Philosophy of Science 53: 271-279.

  12. Rapaport, William J. (1986), "Phil osophy of Artificial Intelligence: A Course Outline", Teaching Philosophy 9: 103-120.

  13. Wiebe, Janyce M., & Rapaport, William J. (1986), "Representing De Re and De Dicto Belief Reports in Discourse and Narrative", Special Issue on Knowledge Representation, Proceedings of the IEEE 74: 1405-1413.

  14. Rapaport, William J. (1986), "Logical Foundations for Belief Representation", Cognitive Science 10: 371-422.

  15. Rapaport, William J. (1988), "To Think or Not To Think", Noûs 22: 585-609.

  16. Rapaport, William J. (1991), "Predication, Fiction, and Artificial Intelligence", Topoi 10: 79-111.

  17. Shapiro, Stuart C., & Rapaport, William J. (1992a), "The SNePS Family", Computers and Mathematics with Applications, invited special issue, Vol. 23: 243-275.

      • Reprinted in Fritz Lehmann (ed.), Semantic Networks in Artificial Intelligence (Oxford: Pergamon Press,, 1992): 243-275.

  18. Rapaport, William J. (1993b), "Because Mere Calculating Isn't Thinking: Comments on Hauser's `Why Isn't My Pocket Calculator a Thinking Thing?'", Minds and Machines 3: 11-20.

  19. Rapaport, William J.; Shapiro, Stuart C.; & Wiebe, Janyce M. (1997), "Quasi-Indexicals and Knowledge Reports", Cognitive Science 21: 63-107.

      • Reprinted in Francesco Orilia & William J. Rapaport (eds.), Thought, Language, and Ontology: Essays in Memory of Hector-Neri Castañeda (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998): 235-294.

  20. Rapaport, William J. (1998), "How Minds Can Be Computational Systems", Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 10: 403-419.

  21. Rapaport, William J. (1999), "Implementation Is Semantic Interpretation", The Monist 82: 109-130.

      • longer version pre-printed as Technical Report 97-15 (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Department of Computer Science) and Technical Report 97-5 (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Center for Cognitive Science).

  22. Rapaport, William J. (2000), "How to Pass a Turing Test: Syntactic Semantics, Natural-Language Understanding, and First-Person Cognition", Special Issue on Alan Turing and Artificial Intelligence, Journal of Logic, Language, and Information 9(4): 467-490.

• Book Chapters:

  1. Rapaport, William J. (1987), "Belief Systems", in Stuart C. Shapiro (ed.), Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence (New York: John Wiley): 63-73.

  2. Rapaport, William J. (1987), "Logic", in Stuart C. Shapiro (ed.), Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence (New York: John Wiley): 536-538.

  3. Rapaport, William J. (1987), "Logic, Predicate", in Stuart C. Shapiro (ed.), Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence (New York: John Wiley): 538-544.

  4. Rapaport, William J. (1987), "Logic, Propositional", in Stuart C. Shapiro (ed.), Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence (New York: John Wiley): 558-563.

  5. Shapiro, Stuart C., & Rapaport, William J. (1987), "SNePS Considered as a Fully Intensional Propositional Semantic Network", in Nick Cercone & Gordon McCalla (eds.), The Knowledge Frontier: Essays in the Representation of Knowledge (New York: Springer-Verlag): 262-315.

  6. Rapaport, William J. (1988), "Syntactic Semantics: Foundations of Computational Natural-Language Understanding", in James H. Fetzer (ed.), Aspects of Artificial Int elligence (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers): 81-131.

     • Reprinted (with numerous errors) in Eric Dietrich (ed.) (1994), Thinking Computers and Virtual Persons: Essays on the Intentionality of Machines (San Diego: Academic Press): 225-273.

  7. Srihari, Rohini K., & Rapaport, William J. (1990), "Combining Linguistic and Pictorial Information: Using Captions to Interpret Newspaper Photographs", in Deepak Kumar (ed.), Current Trends in SNePS--Semantic Network Processing System, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, No. 437 (Berlin: Springer-Verlag): 85-96.

  8. Rapaport, William J. (1990), "Representing Fiction in SNePS", in Deepak Kumar (ed.), Current Trends in SNePS--Semantic Network Processing System, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, No. 437 (Berlin: Springer-Verlag): 107-121.

  9. Rapaport, William J. (1991), in Hans Burkhardt & Barry Smith (eds.), Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology (Munich: Philosophia Verlag): 516-519.

  10. Shapiro, Stuart C., & Rapaport, William J. (1991), "Models and Minds: Knowledge Representation for Natural-Language Competence", in Robert Cummins & John Pollock (eds.), Philosophy and AI: Essays at the Interface (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press): 215-259.

  11. Rapaport, William J. (1992), "Belief Representation Systems", in Stuart C. Shapiro (ed.), Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, 2nd edition (New York: John Wiley): 98-110; revision of "Belief Systems" (1987).

  12. Rapaport, William J. (1992), "Logic", in Stuart C. Shapiro (ed.), Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, 2nd edition (New York: John Wiley): 851-853; revision of "Logic" (1987).

  13. Rapaport, William J. (1992), "Logic, Predicate", in Stuart C. Shapiro (ed.), Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, 2nd edition (New York: John Wiley): 866-873; revision of "Logic, Predicate" (1987).

  14. Rapaport, William J. (1992), "Logic, Propositional", in Stuart C. Shapiro (ed.), Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, 2nd edition (New York: John Wiley): 891-897; revision of "Logic, Propositional" (1987).

  15. Shapiro, Stuart C., & Rapaport, William J. (1992), "A Fully Intensional Propositional Semantic Network", in Leslie Burkholder (ed.), Philosophy and the Computer (Boulder, CO: Westview Press): 75-91; revised version of Shapiro & Rapaport 1986.

  16. Rapaport, William J. (1993), "Cognitive Science", in Anthony Ralston & Edwin D. Reilly (eds.), Encyclopedia of Computer Science, 3rd edition (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold): 185-189.

  17. Shapiro, Stuart C., & Rapaport, William J. (1995), "An Introduction to a Computational Reader of Narratives", in Judith Felson Duchan, Gail A. Bruder, & Lynne E. Hewitt (eds.), Deixis in Narrative: A Cognitive Science Perspective (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates): 79-105; revised and expanded version of the first half of Rapaport 1991.

  18. Rapaport, William J., & Shapiro, Stuart C. (1995), "Cognition and Fiction", in Judith Felson Duchan, Gail A. Bruder, & Lynne E. Hewitt (eds.), Deixis in Narrative: A Cognitive Science Perspective (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates): 107-128; revised and expanded version of the second half of Rapaport 1991.

  19. Rapaport, William J. (1995), "Understanding Understanding: Syntactic Semantics and Computational Cognition", in James E. Tomberlin (ed.), AI, Connectionism, and Philosophical Psychology, Philosophical Perspectives Vol. 9 (Atascadero, CA: Ridgeview): 49-88.

      • Reprinted in Toribio, Josefa, & Clark, Andy (eds.) (1998), Language and Meaning in Cognitive Science: Cognitive Issues and Semantic Theory, Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, Vol. 4: Conceptual Issues (New York: Garland): 73-88.

  20. Rapaport, William J. (1998), "Prolegomena to a Study of Hector-Neri Castañeda's Influence on Artificial Intelligence: A Survey and Personal Reflections", in Francesco Orilia & William J. Rapaport, (eds.), Thought, Language, and Ontology: Essays in Memory of Hector-Neri Castañeda (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers): 345-367.

  21. Rapaport, William J., & Shapiro, Stuart C. (1999), "Cognition and Fiction: An Introduction", in Ashwin Ram & Kenneth Moorman (eds.), Understanding Language Understanding: Computational Models of Reading (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press): 11-25; abridged and slightly edited version of Rapaport & Shapiro 1995

  22. Rapaport, William J. (2000), "Cognitive Science", in Anthony Ralston, Edwin D. Reilly, & David Hemmendinger (eds.), Encyclopedia of Computer Science, 4th edition (New York: Grove's Dictionaries): 227-233; revision of Rapaport 1993.

  23. Rapaport, William J., & Ehrlich, Karen (2000), "A Computational Theory of Vocabulary Acquisition", in Lucja M. Iwanska, & Stuart C. Shapiro (eds.), Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Representation: Language for Knowledge and Knowledge for Language (Menlo Park, CA/Cambridge, MA: AAAI Press/MIT Press): 347-375.

  24. Rapaport, William J. (written 1985; perennially forthcoming), "Meinongian Semantics and Artificial Intelligence", in Peter Simons (ed.), Essays on Meinong (Amsterdam: Rodopi Editions).

• Refereed Conference Proceedings:

  1. Rapaport, William J., & Shapiro, Stuart C. (1984), "Quasi-Indexical Reference in Propositional Semantic Networks", Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-84, Stanford University) (Morristown, NJ: Association for Computational Linguistics): 65-70.

  2. Rapaport, William J. (1985), "Meinongian Semantics for Propositional Semantic Networks", Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (University of Chicago) (Morristown, NJ: Association for Computational Linguistics): 43-48.

  3. Rapaport, William J. (1985), "Machine Understanding and Data Abstraction in Searle's Chinese Room", Proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (University of California at Irvine) (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates): 341-345.

  4. Shapiro, Stuart C., & Rapaport, William J. (1986), "SNePS Considered as a Fully Intensional Propositional Semantic Network", Proceedings of the 5th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-86, Philadelphia) (Los Altos, CA: Morgan Kaufmann), Vol. 1, pp. 278-283.

     • Revised version reprinted as Shapiro & Rapaport 1992b.

  5. Wiebe, Janyce M., & Rapaport, William J. (1988), "A Computational Theory of Perspective and Reference in Narrative", Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (SUNY Buffalo) (Morristown, NJ: Association for Computational Linguistics): 131-138.

  6. Peters, Sandra M.; Shapiro, Stuart C.; & Rapaport, William J. (1988), "Flexible Natural Language Processing and Roschian Category Theory", Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (Montreal) (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates): 125-131.

  7. Nakhimovsky, Alexander, & Rapaport, William J. (1988), "Discontinuities in Narratives", Proceedings of the 12th International Conference of Computational Linguistics (COLING-88, Budapest): 465-470.

  8. Srihari, Rohini K., & Rapaport, William J. (1989), "Extracting Visual Information From Text: Using Captions to Label Human Faces in Newspaper Photographs", Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (Ann Arbor, MI) (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates): 364-371.

  9. Peters, Sandra M., & Rapaport, William J. (1990), "Superordinate and Basic Level Categories in Discourse: Memory and Context", Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (Cambridge, MA) (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates): 157-165.

  10. Ehrlich, Karen, & Rapaport, William J. (1997), A Computational Theory of Vocabulary Expansion", Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (Stanford University) (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates): 205-210.

• Reviews:

  1. Rapaport, William J. (1986), Review of Karel Lambert, Meinong and the Principle of Independence: Its Place in Meinong's Theory of Objects and Its Significance in Contemporary Philosophical Logic (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1983), Journal of Symbolic Logic 51: 248-252.

  2. Rapaport, William J. (1986), Review of Deborah G. Johnson and John W. Snapper (eds.), Ethical Issues in the Use of Computers (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1985), Teaching Philosophy 9: 275-278.

  3. Rapaport, William J. (1988), Review of Joseph Y. Halpern (ed.), Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning About Knowledge: Proceedings of the 1986 Conference (Los Altos, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1986), Journal of Symbolic Logic 53: 660-670.

  4. Rapaport, William J. (1988), Review of Michael Devitt & Kim Sterelny, Language and Reality (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987), and of Robert M. Martin, The Meaning of Language (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987), Computational Linguistics 14: 108-113.

  5. Rapaport, William J. (1997), Review of "Willard van Orman Quine" homepage, in American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers Vol. 97, No. 1 (Fall 1997): 40-41.

• Other Published Articles:

  1. Rapaport, William J. (1979), "Interdisciplinary 'Informal Logic' Course", Informal Logic Newsletter 1 (May 1979) 6-7, and 2 (November 1979) 14; also contributed to Informal Logic Newsletter 1 (July 1979).

  2. Rapaport, William J. (1984), "Can Philosophy Solve Its Own Problems?" The [SUNY] News 13 (May/June 1984) F2-F3.

  3. Rapaport, William J. (1984), "Critical Thinking and Cognitive Development", American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy 1 (Spring/Summer 1984) 4-5.

     • Reprinted in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association 57 (1984) 610-615.

  4. Hardt (now Loeb), Shoshana H., & Rapaport, William J. (eds.) (1986), "Recent and Current Artificial Intelligence Research in the Department of Computer Science, SUNY Buffalo", AI Magazine 7 (Summer 1986) 91-100.

  5. Rapaport, William J. (1986), "Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, and the Chinese-Room Argument", Abacus: The Magazine for the Computer Professional 3 (Summer 1986) 6-17; correspondence, Abacus 4 (Winter 1987) 6-7, Abacus 4 (Spring 1987) 5-7.

  6. Rapaport, William J. (1986), "Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy" (editor's column), American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy (Fall 1986) 11-12.

  7. Rapaport, William J. (ed.) (1987), "SUNY at Buffalo Department of Computer Science Graduate Student Open House", SIGART Newsletter No. 99 (January 1987) 22-24.

  8. Rapaport, William J. (ed.) (1987), "Second Annual SUNY Buffalo Graduate Conference on Computer Science", SIGART Newsletter No. 100 (April 1987) 23-25.

  9. Rapaport, William J. (1987), "Philosophy for Children and Other People", American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy (Summer 1987) 19-22.

  10. Rapaport, William J. (1991), "The Inner Mind and the Outer World: Guest Editor's Introduction", Special Issue on Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, Noûs, 25: 405-410.

  11. Orilia, Francesco, & Rapaport, William J. (1998b), "Thought, Language, and Ontology: An Introduction", in Francesco Orilia & William J. Rapaport, (eds.), Thought, Language, and Ontology: Essays in Memory of Hector-Neri Castañeda (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers): ix-xxi.

  12. Rapaport, William J. (1998), "Academic Fa mily Tree of Hector-Neri Casta&nti lde;eda", in Francesco Orilia & William J. Rapaport, (eds.), Thought, Language, and Ontology: Essays in Memory of Hector-Neri Casta&nti lde;eda (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers): 369-374.

• Published Abstracts of Refereed Presentations:

  1. Rapaport, William J. (1977), "Adverbial Theories and Meinongian Theories", abstract of a colloquium presentation given at the 1977 Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Journal of Philosophy 74: 635.

     • Full text of presentation published as Rapaport 1979.

  2. Rapaport, William J. (1979), "An Algebraic Interpretation of Deontic Logic", abstract of an unpublished talk given at the 1978 Summer Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Journal of Symbolic Logic 44: 472.

• Technical Reports Not Otherwise Published:

  1. Rapaport, William J. (1984), "Belief Representation and Quasi-Indicators", Technical Report 215 (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Department of Computer Science).

     • A revised version was published as Rapaport 1986.

  2. Rapaport, William J.; Shapiro, Stuart C.; & Wiebe, Janyce M. (1986), "Quasi-Indicators, Knowledge Reports, and Discourse", Technical Report 86-15 (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Department of Computer Science).

     • A substantially revised version was published as Rapaport, Shapiro, & Wiebe 1997.

  3. Bruder, Gail A.; Duchan, Judith F.; Rapaport, William J.; Segal, Erwin M.; Shapiro, Stuart C.; & Zubin, David A. (1986), "Deictic Centers in Narrative: An Interdisciplinary Cognitive-Science Project", Technical Report 86-20 (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Department of Computer Science).

  4. Rapaport, William J. (1986/1987), "A Computational Theory of Natural-Language Understanding", Computer Science Research Review (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Department of Computer Science): 25-31.

  5. Srihari, Sargur N.; Rapaport, William J.; & Kumar, Deepak (1987), "On Knowledge Representation Using Semantic Networks and Sanskrit", Technical Report 87-03 (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Department of Computer Science).

  6. Rapaport, William J.; Wiebe, Janyce M.; & Dipert, Randall R. (1987/1988), "Intensional Knowledge Representation", Computer Science Research Review (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Department of Computer Science): 48-63.

  7. Rapaport, William J., & the SNePS Research Group (1988), "A Knowledge-Representation Challenge for SNePS", SNeRG Technical Note No. 20 (Buffalo: SNePS Research Group, SUNY Buffalo Department of Computer Science).

  8. Roberts, Lawrence D., & Rapaport, William J. (1988), "Quantifier Order, Reflexive Pronouns, and Quasi-Indexicals", Technical Report 88-16 (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Department of Computer Science).

  9. Rapaport, William J.; Segal, Erwin M.; Shapiro, Stuart C.; Zubin, David A.; Bruder, Gail A.; Duchan, Judith F.; Almeida, Michael J.; Daniels, Joyce H.; Galbraith, Mary M.; Wiebe, Janyce M.; & Yuhan, Albert Hanyong (1989), "Deictic Centers and the Cognitive Structure of Narrative Comprehension", Technical Report 89-01 (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Department of Computer Science; Allegedly forthcoming in Joachim Knuf (ed.), Time, Space, and Identity: Essays on Deixis (book under review by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

  10. Rapaport, William J.; Segal, Erwin M.; Shapiro, Stuart C.; Zubin, David A.; Bruder, Gail A.; Duchan, Judith F.; & Mark, David M. (1989), "Cognitive and Computer Systems for Understanding Narrative Text", Technical Report 89-07 (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Department of Computer Science).

  11. Rapaport, William J. (1990b), "Computer Processes and Virtual Persons: Comments on Cole's `Artificial Intelligence and Personal Identity"', Technical Report 90-13 (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Department of Computer Science).

  12. Galbraith, Mary, & Rapaport, William J. (guest editors) (1995), Where Does I Come From? Special Issue on Subjectivity and the Debate over Computational Cognitive Science, Minds and Machines , Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 513-620.

  13. Ehrlich, Karen, & Rapaport, William J. (1992), "Automatic Acquisition of Word Meanings from Natural-Language Contexts", Technical Report 92-03 (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Center for Cognitive Science).

  14. Ehrlich, Karen, & Rapaport, William J. (1993), "Vocabulary Expansion through Natural-Language Context", Proceedings of the 8th Annual University at Buffalo Graduate Conference on Computer Science (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Department of Computer Science): 78-84.

  15. Ehrlich, Karen, & Rapaport, William J. (1995), "A Computational Theory of Vocabulary Expansion: Project Proposal", Technical Report 95-15 (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Department of Computer Science) and Technical Report 95-08 (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Center for Cognitive Science).

  16. Koepsell, David R., & Rapaport, William J. (1995), "The Ontology of Cyberspace: Questions and Comments", Technical Report 95-25 (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Department of Computer Science) and Technical Report 95-09 (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Center for Cognitive Science).

  17. Jacquette, Dale, & Rapaport, William J. (1995), "Virtual Relations vs. Virtual Universals: Essay, Comments, and Reply", Technical Report 95-10 (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Center for Cognitive Science).

  18. Rapaport, William J. (1996, in preparation), Understanding Understanding: Semantics, Computation, and Cognition; pre-printed as Technical Report 96-26 (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Department of Computer Science).

  PRESENTATIONS:

  Invited External Presentations:

  1. ``How Cassie (A Computational Cognitive Agent (Implemented in an Intensional Knowledge-Representation, Reasoning, and Acting System)) Can Learn New Words from Context'', AI Seminar Series, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta (2000).

  2. "A Computational Theory of Vocabulary Acquisition", Program in Philosophy and Computers and Cognitive Science (PACCS), SUNY Binghamton (1999).

  3. "How to Pass a Turing Test: Syntax Suffices for Understanding Natural Language", master class taught to graduate students in the Program in Philosophy and Computers and Cognitive Science (PACCS), SUNY Binghamton (1999).

  4. "How Computers Can Think: A Conversation with Cassie; or, Knowledge Representation for Natural-Language Understanding", Exceptional Minds/Exceptional Machines: Minds and Machines Public Lecture Series, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1998).

  5. "How Minds Can Be Computational Systems", part of an Invited Symposium, "Are Minds Computational Systems?", 88th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology (Nashville, 1996).

  6. "Intelligent Chinese-English Machine Translation" (with Min-Hung Liao), General Motors Research and Development Center, Warren, MI (1996).

  7. "A Computational Theory of Vocabulary Expansion Using an Intensional Knowledge Representation System", Department of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario (1996).

  8. "Prolegomena to an Investigation of Hector-Neri Castañeda's Influence on Artificial Intelligence", Society for Iberian and Latin American Thought, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division (New York, 1995).

  9. Comments on David R. Koepsell's "The Ontology of Cyberspace", Tri-State Philosophical Association (St. Bonaventure University, 1995).

  10. "Deictic Centers and the Cognitive Structure of Narrative Comprehension"

      • Artificial Intelligence Center, University of Georgia (1995).

      • First International Colloquium on Deixis, University of Kentucky (1994) (with Erwin Segal).

      • Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester (1988).

      • Kodak Advanced Computing Research Labs, Rochester, NY (1988).

      • IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY (1988).

  11. The Perry Scheme of Intellectual Development", Teaching Resource Center, Erie Community College, North Campus (1994)

  12. "Can Computers Understand Language? A Cognitive-Science Approach to Understanding Narrative Texts"

      • Reassessing the Cognitive Revolution: An Interdisciplinary Seminar, York University (1993).

      • Department of Philosophy, SUNY Fredonia (1992).

  13. Comments on Michael Gorman's "Error and Intentionality", Tri-State Philosophical Association (SUNY Fredonia, 1991).

  14. "Because Mere Calculating Isn't Thinking: Comments on Hauser's `Why Isn't My Pocket Calculator a Thinking Thing?"', Colloquium on Philosophy of Mind, American Philosophical Association Central Division (Chicago, 1991).

  15. "What is Cognitive Science?", Workshop on Artificial Intelligence: An Emerging Science or a Dying Art Form?, Program in Philosophy and Computer & Systems Science, SUNY Binghamton (1990).

  16. "Computer Processes and Virtual Persons: Comments on Cole's `Artificial Intelligence and Personal Identity"', Colloquium on Artificial Intelligence, American Philosophical Association Central Division (New Orleans, 1990).

  17. "Predication, Fiction, and Knowledge Representation", 1989-1990 Distinguished Alumni Lecture, Department of Philosophy, Indiana University (1990).

  18. "Aspects of Predication in a Propositional Semantic Network", Conference on Problems and Changes in the Concept of Predication, University of California Humanities Research Institute, University of California at Irvine (1989).

  19. "The SNePS Knowledge Representation and Reasoning System"

      • Computer and Information Science Department, Syracuse University (1989).

      • Program in Philosophy and Computer & Systems Sciences, SUNY Binghamton (1988).

  20. "Knowledge Representation for Natural-Language Understanding", Rochester Chapter, Association for Computing Machinery (1988).

  21. "Cognitive Science: Sciences of the Mind" and
      "Knowledge Representation for Natural-Language Understanding",
      11th Steelman Visiting Scientist Distinguished Lectureship, Lenoir-Rhyne College (1988).

  22. "Reflections on Reflexives and Quasi-Indexicals: Comments on Roberts's `Quantifier Order, Reflexive Pronouns, and Quasi-indexicals"', Colloquium on Philosophy of Language, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division (New York, 1987).

  23. "Computational Philosophy"

      • Second Annual Philosophy and Computers Conference (Michigan State University, 1987).

      • Department of Psychology, Stockton State College (1987).

      • Department of Computer Science, Colgate University (1987).

  24. "Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy", Department of Computer Science, Colgate University (1986).

  25. "Intensional Knowledge Representation in SNePS", Advanced Computational Methods Center, University of Georgia (1986).

  26. SNePS Workshop (with Stuart C. Shapiro), Department of Computer Science, University of Lowell (1986).

  27. "Logical Foundations for Belief Representation"

      • Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin (1986).

      • Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto (1986).

      • Department of Philosophy, St. Bonaventure University (1985).

  28. "Philosophy and Cognitive Science", part of panel presentation on Cognitive Science, Niagara County Community College (1986).

  29. "Comments on Cole's `Thoughts and Thought Experiments"', Colloquium on Philosophy of Mind, American Philosophical Association Western Division (Milwaukee, 1984).

  30. "Comments on Dibrell's `Persons and the Intentional Stance"', Creighton Club/New York State Philosophical Association (Cazenovia, NY, 1984).

  31. "Belief Representation and Knowledge Representation", Department of Computer Science, Tulane University (1984).

  32. "Unsolvable Problems and Philosophical Progress", Creighton Club/New York State Philosophical Association (University of Rochester, 1982).

  33. "Meinong, Defective Objects, and Psychological Paradoxes", Tri-State Philosophical Association (Pennsylvania State University/Behrend College, 1981).

  34. "An Algebraic Interpretation of Deontic Logic", Association for Symbolic Logic (University of Wisconsin, 1978).

  35. "The Algebraic Structure of Ethical Language", Mathematical Association of America, Seaway Section (Brock University, St. Catherine's, Ontario, 1978).

  36. "The Logical Structure of Ethical Language", Niagara Linguistics Society (SUNY Buffalo, 1978).

  37. "Adverbial Theories and Meinongian Theories"

      • Ontology Colloquium, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division (Washington, DC, 1977).

      • Tri-State Philosophical Association (1977).

  38. "How to Make the World Fit Our Language"

      • Department of Philosophy, Ohio State University (1981).

      • Department of Philosophy, University of Santa Clara (1981).

      • Tri-State Philosophical Association (1978).

      • Department of Philosophy, Lawrence University (1977).

  39. "Some Thoughts about Thought and Language", Department of Philosophy, SUNY Fredonia (1976).

  40. "Meinong's Theory of Objects Vindicated", Department of Philosophy, SUNY Geneseo (1975).
      

• Invited Internal Presentations (all at SUNY Buffalo, except as noted)

  1. "How to Pass a Turing Test and Escape from the Chinese Room", PHI 575, Introduction to Cognitive Science (1999).

  2. Panel member, UB Sesquicentennial Symposium on Frontiers of Knowledge in Nature, Society, and Culture: Does the Body Matter? (1996).

  3. Comments on John Corcoran's "Critical Thinking and Education", Department of Philosophy and Buffalo Logic Colloquium (1996).

  4. "How Minds Can Be Computational Systems", Center for Cognitive Science (1996).

  5. "The Perry Scheme of Intellectual Development"

     • Summer Teaching Assistant Workshops (1990, 1992-1997, 1999-2001)

     • Critical Thinking Conference, Office of Teaching Effectiveness (1993)

     • Teaching the Undergraduate Science Courses of the General Education Program (1992)

     • Summer Faculty Development Workshop for Science Core Curriculum (1991-1992)

     • Department of Computer Science Colloquium (1991-1992)

  6. "Virtual Universals: Comments on Dale Jacquette's `Virtual Relations' ", Marvin Farber Conference on the Ontology and Epistemology of Relations (Department of Philosophy, 1994).

  7. "Can Computers Understand Language? A Cognitive-Science Approach to Understanding Narrative Texts", Workshop on Deixis in Narrative, Center for Cognitive Science Graduate Club (1992)

  8. "Cognitive and Computer Systems for Understanding Narrative Text", Symposium on Cognitive, Computational, and Phenomenological Approaches to Understanding Narrative, Center for Cognitive Science (1991).

  9. "Computational Philosophy (or: Philosophical Computation?)", Center for Cognitive Science (1991).

  10. "Artificial Intelligence and Fiction", Department of Biophysical Sciences (1990).

  11. "Representing Fiction in SNePS", First Annual SNePS Workshop (1989).

  12. "Artificial Intelligence", Science Exploration Day (1987, 1989).

  13. "Artificial Intelligence" and "Cognitive Science", Faculty and Students Together (1988).

  14. "Artificial Intelligence", Western NY Science Forum (1988).

  15. "Intellectual Growth and Critical Thinking", Mentor Program Seminar (1986-1987).

  16. "Philosophy and Computers", Undergraduate Philosophy Club (1985).

  17. "Machine Understanding and Data Abstraction in Searle's Chinese Room"

      • Department of Philosophy (1984).

      • Department of Computer Science (1984).

  18. "Belief Representation and Knowledge Representation"

      • Department of Computer Science (1984).

      • Computer Science Club, SUNY Fredonia (1984).

  19. "Unsolvable Problems and Philosophical Progress", Department of Philosophy, SUNY Fredonia (1981).

  20. "Meinong, Defective Objects, and Psychological Paradoxes"

      • SUNY Buffalo Logic Colloquium(1981).

      • Department of Philosophy, SUNY Fredonia (1980).

  21. "A Logician's Approach to Language", Language and Linguistics Club, SUNY Fredonia (1977).

  22. "How to Make the World Fit Our Language", Department of Philosophy, SUNY Fredonia (1977).

  23. "A Paradox in the Structure of Existence", Department of Philosophy, SUNY Fredonia (1976).

TEACHING:

• Ph.D. Dissertation Director (Department of Computer Science, SUNY Buffalo):

  1. Janyce M. Wiebe, "Recognizing Subjective Sentences: A Computational Investigation of Narrative Text" (1990)

     • currently, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh.

  2. Rohini K. Srihari, "Extracting Visual Information from Text: Using Captions to Label Faces in Newspaper Photographs" (1991)

     • currently, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering; Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering; and Senior Research Scientist, Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition, SUNY Buffalo

  3. Robin Hill, "Issues of Semantics in a Semantic Network Representation of Belief" (1994)

     • currently, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Wyoming.

  4. Karen Ehrlich, "Automatic Vocabulary Expansion through Narrative Context" (1994)

     • currently, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, SUNY Fredonia

• M.S. Thesis Director (Department of Computer Science, SUNY Buffalo):

  • Richard Wyatt, Ph.D., "The Representation of Opaque Contexts" (1989)

    • currently, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, West Chester University (Pennsylvania).
      

• M.S. Project Director (Department of Computer Science, SUNY Buffalo):

  1. Ronald L. A. Weekes, "Parsing and Generating with an ATN Grammar" (1985)

  2. Sudha Kumari Kailar, "Natural-Language Generation from a Semantic Network" (1986)

  3. Neal Bross, "Scheme for an Automated Theorem Prover" (1986)

  4. Margaret Schwartz, "A Comparison of LISP and Scheme" (1987)

  5. William Ansley, "A SNePS Implementation of Micro-SAM" (1989)

  6. Christopher Lusardi, "A SNePS/Cassie Implementation of Parts of the Dictionary of Cultural Literacy" (1991)

  7. Daniel Campos, "Temporal Relations and Spanish Narrative" (1991)
     • currently, Associate Professor, Depto. Ingeniería Informática y Ciencias de Computación, Universidad de Concepción (Chile).

  8. Sandra L. Peters, "The Representation of Natural Category Systems" (1992)
     • currently, Associate Director, Academic Services, CIT, SUNY Buffalo

  9. Suzanne H. Selib, "An ATN Grammar for Lexical Acquisition" (1995)

  10. Brian Harris, "A SNePS-Unix Interface" (1996)

  11. Mark Jensen, "Knowledge Representation in SNePS" (1996)

  12. Afshin Shafie, "Knowledge Representation in SNePS" (1996)

  13. Jonathan DeAngelo, "Implementing Polysemy in a Knowledge Representation Scheme" (1996)
      • currently, consultant, Mindbox.

  14. Min-Hung Liao, "A Chinese-English Machine Translation System" (1998).

  15. Anthony S. Petre, "Using the LKB System with SNePS" (2000).

  16. Mark Broklawski, "Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition" (2001).

  17. Dan Jong Kim, "A Survey of Machine Learning Techniques for Language (Vocabulary) Acquisition" (2001).

  18. Michael Schiller, "Understanding Pablo: An Exercise in Medical Natural Language Processing" (2001).

  19. Rajeev Sood, "A Case Study in Computational Understanding of Hospital Discharge Summaries" (2001).

  20. Igor Yakymenko, "Machine Learning Techniques in NLP for Word Sense Disambiguation" (2001).

• Ph.D. Dissertation Committee Member: Department of Computer Science:

  1. Ernesto J.M. Morgado, "Semantic Networks as Abstract Data Types" (1986)

  2. Michael J. Almeida, "Reasoning about the Temporal Structure of Narratives" (1987)

  3. Zhigang Xiang, "Multi-Level Model-Based Diagnostic Reasoning" (1988)

  4. Albert Hanyong Yuhan, "Dynamic Computation of Spatial Reference Frames in Narrative Understanding" (1991)

  5. Edward Cohen, "Reading Unconstrained Handwritten Text in Limited Domains" (1992)

  6. Syed Ali, "ANALOG: A `Natural Logic' for Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Representation" (1993)

  7. Joongmin Choi, "Experience-Based Learning in Deductive Reasoning Systems" (1993)

  8. Juergen Haas, "Inference of Semantics from Examples: From Context-Free to Definite-Clause Grammars" (1993)

  9. Deepak Kumar, "From Beliefs and Goals to Intentions and Actions: An Amalgamated Model of Acting and Inference" (1993)

  10. Susan Haller, "Interactive Generation of Plan Descriptions and Justifications" (1994)

  11. Stephen W. Lam, "A Computational Framework for Adaptive Reading in Document Image Understanding" (1994)

  12. Johan Lammens, "A Computational Model of Color Perception and Color Naming" (1994)

  13. Debashish Niyogi, "A Knowledge-Based Approach to Deriving Logical Structure from Document Images" (1994)

  14. Hans Chalupsky, "Belief Ascription by Way of Simulative Reasoning" (1995)

  15. Henry Hexmoor, "Representing and Learning Successful Routine Activities" (1995)

  16. Philip S. Goetz, "Attractors in Recurrent Behavior Networks" (1997).

  17. V. Kripasundar, "Language Models for Post-Processing the Output of a Recognizer for Handwritten Text, or How to Imrove Recongition in Noisy Stuations" (1999)

  18. Alistair E. Campbell, "Ontological Mediation: Finding Translations across Dialects by Asking Questions" (1999)

  19. Debra T. Burhans, "A Question-Answering Interpretation of Resolution Refutation" (expected, 2001)

  20. Haythem O. Ismail, "Reasoning and Acting in Time" (expected, 2001).

  21. Frances L. Johnson (expected, 2001).

  22. John F. Santore, "Planning to Find the Referents of Noun Phrases" (expected, 2001).

  Department of Linguistics:

  1. Hassan Taman, "MIDS: A Modular Interactive System for Disambiguating Arabic Orthography" (1986)

  2. Douglas-Val Ziegler, "The Automatic Identification of Languages Using Linguistic Recognition Signals" (1991)

  3. Naicong Li, "Perspective-Taking in Mandarin Discourse" (1991)

  4. Wynne Janis, "The Pronominal Reference System of ASL: Indexing" (1992)

  Department of Philosophy:

  1. David R. Koepsell, "The Ontology of Cyberspace" (1997).

  2. Gerald J. Erion, "Common Sense: An Investigation in Ontology, Epistemology, and Moral Philosophy" (2000).

  3. Jaime Ramos, "A Critical Study of the Language of Thought Hypothesis" (2000).

  4. Michael Happold, "Information, Computation, and the Nature of Cognition: A Critique of Computational Approaches to Understanding and Creating Minds" (2000).

  5. Chien-Chih Chi, "Acquiring Common Knowledge" (expected, 2002).

  SUNY Binghamton, Department of Philosophy, Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Philosophy and Computers and Cognitive Science:

  • Changsin Lee, "The Acquisition of Mental Vocabulary and the Development of Social Cognition" (1998).

• Ph.D. Dissertation Outside Reader:

  Department of Psychology:

  1. Joyce H. Daniels, "The Role of Function in the Organization of Conceptual Information in Semantic Memory" (1987)

  2. Penny Nuwer, "Interactive vs. Independent Processing of Visual and Phonological Components of Words" (1989)

  3. Lorraine Engl, "Effects of Semantic Information and Physical Boundaries on Cognitive Maps" (1989)

  Department of Learning and Instruction, Graduate School of Education:

  • Peter Brouwer, "An Analysis of Student Debugging Strategies" (1992)

  Department of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, Canada:

  • Marcello Guarini, "Rules and Representations in the Classicism-Connectionism Debate" (1998)

  Department of Linguistics:

  • David Houghton, "Something about `anything': A Semantic Study of a, any, the, and certain" (2000).

• Department of Philosophy Graduate Advisory Committee Member:
  

  1. Ashutosh Kalsi (1996-1998)

  2. Aileen T. Paraguya (1996-1998)

• M.S. Thesis Committee Member:

  Department of Oral Sciences, School of Dental Medicine:

  • Catherine Gogan, D.D.S., "Intellectual Development of Dental Students as Evaluated by the Measure of Epistemological Reflection" (1995).

  Department of Linguistics:

  • Min-Hung Liao, "A Chinese-English Machine Translation System" (1998).

• M.A. Committee Member:

  Interdisciplinary Social Sciences/Cognitive Science:	Eugene Lunken (1992)
  Department of Philosophy:	Anthony Petro (1993)

Courses Taught:

1. SUNY Buffalo:

   • Undergraduate:
     1. Great Ideas in Computer Science I
     2. Great Ideas in Computer Science II
     3. Introduction to Computer Science I
     4. Introduction to Computer Science II
     5. Introduction to Discrete Mathematics I
     6. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (now: Knowledge-Based AI)
     7. Program Development
     8. Introduction to the Theory of Computation

   • Graduate:
     1. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (now: Knowledge-Based AI)
     2. Introduction to Cognitive Science
     3. Techniques of AI: Logic and AI
     4. Natural Language Understanding (now: Computational Linguistics)
     5. Knowledge Representation

   • Graduate Seminars:
     1. Belief Systems in AI
     2. Situation Semantics
     3. Machine Translation
     4. Cognitive Science Research
     5. Natural-Language Competence
     6. Lakoff's Theory of Categories and the Mind
     7. Semantics, Computation, and Cognition
     8. Natural-Language Understanding & Generation
     9. Medical Natural-Language Processing

   • First International Summer Institute in Cognitive Science:
     1. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
     2. Introduction to Philosophy for Cognitive Science

2. SUNY Fredonia:

   • Department of Philosophy (undergraduate):
     1. Introduction to Philosophy
     2. Introduction to Deductive Logic
     3. Intermediate Deductive Logic
     4. Greek Philosophy
     5. Analytic Philosophy Since 1900
     6. Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
     7. Philosophy of Language
     8. Philosophy of Mind
     9. Mathematical Logic

   • Department of Mathematics (undergraduate):
     • Intermediate Computer Programming I

   • General-Liberal Education Program (undergraduate):
     • Effective Writing and Analytical Skills

   • Graduate:
     • Philosophy of Language

   • Summer Faculty Development Workshops in Teaching Informal Logic

3. Indiana University:

   • Department of Philosophy (undergraduate):
     1. Introduction to Logic
     2. Symbolic Logic

   • Department of Mathematics (undergraudate):
     • Analytic Geometry and Calculus I

4. Walden School (grades 7-12):
   Secondary School Mathematics Curriculum Improvement Study, Algebra, Geometry, Analytic Geometry, Trigonometry

5. Inwood Junior High School:
   regular, advanced, and non-English-speaking 7th-grade mathematics

SERVICE:

1. Professional:

   • Offices and Committee Memberships:

     1. Society for Machines and Mentality
        • Immediate Past President (1993-1995)
        • Elected first President (1991-1993)

     2. American Philosophical Association

        • Committee on Computer Use in Philosophy (1989-1992, 1994-1997)
          • Subcommittee on Computing and Philosophical Research (1994-1997)
          • Subcommittee on Computing and Professional Cooperation of Philosophers (1994-1997)
          • Subcommittee on Computer Technology and Ethics (1989-1992)

        • Delphi Research Panel on Critical Thinking (1988-1989)

        • Committee on Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy (1981-1988)

   • Editorial:

     1. Member, Editorial Board:

        • Noûs (quarterly journal of philosophy published by Blackwell; 1990-present)

        • Studies in Cognitive Systems (book series published by Kluwer Academic Publishers; 1987-present)

        • Machine Translation (formerly, Computers and Translation; published by Kluwer Academic Publishers; 1987-1998)

        • Computational Linguistics (Association for Computational Linguistics; 1987-1989)

     2. Minds and Machines: Journal for Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers):
        • Review Editor (1994-1998)
        • Book Review Editor (1990-1994)

     3. Contributing Editor, American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy (1986-1988)

     4. Co-Editor, American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy (1983-1986)

     5. Assistant to the Editor, Noûs 1972-1975)

     6. Reviewer/referee for:

        Journals: Abacus: The Magazine for the Computer Professional, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics, Grazer Philosophische Studien, Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, Journal of Philosophical Logic, Journal of Philosophical Research, Minds and Machines: Journal for Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science, The Monist, Noûs, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Teaching Philosophy, Synthese.

        Publishers:

        Cambridge University Press; John Wiley; Little, Brown; Macmillan; McGraw-Hill; MIT Press; Prentice Hall; Wadsworth.

        Other:

        Canada Council Killam Research Fellowships, National Science Foundation

     7. Miscellaneous:

        1. Editor, First International Summer Institute of Cognitive Science Handbook (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Center for Cognitive Science, 1994)

        2. Author and editor, Association for Computational Linguistics Conference Local-Arrangements Manual (1988)

   • Conferences:

     1. Referee, 13th-20th, 22nd-23rd Annual Meetings, Cognitive Science Society (1991-1998, 2000-2001)

     2. Chair, Colloquium on Philosophy of Mind, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division (New York, 1995)

     3. Referee, 7th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA-95) (1995)

     4. Chair, Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Rationality, American Philosophical Association Central Division (Chicago, 1993)

     5. Program Committee, Student Session, 29th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (University of California at Berkeley, 1991)

     6. Referee, Society for Philosophy and Psychology (1991)

     7. Local Arrangements Chair, 26th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (SUNY Buffalo, 1988)

     8. Chair, Colloquium on Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy, American Philosophical Association Central Division (Chicago, 1987)

     9. Chair, Second Session on Cognitive Modelling and Education, 5th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-86, Philadelphia, 1986)

     10. Chair, Colloquium on Philosophy of Mind/Mental Images, American Philosophical Association Western Division (Columbus, OH; 1982)

     11. Chair, Session on the Nature of Natures, Tri-State Philosophical Association (1982)

     12. Organizer, chair, and participant: Panel discussion on Teaching Informal Logic, Tri-State Philosophical Association (1979); see Informal Logic Newsletter 2 (November 1979) 7-9

   • Other:

   • Author of questions for Law School Admissions Test (LSAT)

2. At SUNY Buffalo:

   1. Department of Computer Science [and Engineering]:

      • Web and Publications Committee (2001-present)

      • Chair, Teaching Quality Committee (1997-1998, 1999-present)

      • Personnel Committee (1988-present)

      • Graduate Faculty (1985-present)

      • Policy Committee (1984-present)

      • Associate Director, SNePS Research Group (1984-present)

      • Facilities Committee (1999-2001)

      • Lecturer Recruiting Committee (1998-1998)

      • Graduate Students Employees Union campus advisory committee (1994-1998)

      • Graduate Affairs Committee (1992-1998)

      • Department representative/alternate, Faculty of Natural Sciences & Mathematics Undergraduate Grievance Pool (1987-1991, 1992-1998)

      • Department representative/alternate, Faculty of Natural Sciences & Mathematics Graduate Grievance Pool (1987-1991, 1992-1998)

      • Educational Technology Committee (1997)

      • Recruiting Committee (1985-1986, 1990-1991, 1996-1997)

      • Director of Graduate Studies (1993-1996)

      • Executive Committee (1988-1991, 1993-1996)

      • Chair, Colloquium Committee (1985-1986, 1992-1993)

      • CISE Institutional Infrastructure Committee (1991)

      • Undergraduate Affairs Committee (1990-1991)

        • Chair, Ad Hoc Subcommittee to review syllabus for CS 191-192 (Introduction to Discrete Mathematics) (1995)

      • Director of Undergraduate Studies (1988-1991)

      • Department Brochures Committee (1986-1991)

      • Chair, Department of Computer Science Chairperson Search Committee (1989-1990)

      • RDF Expenditures Committee (1988-1990)

      • Undergraduate Studies Committee (1986-1987, 1988-1990)

      • OPAS Committee (1987-1988)

      • Graduate Studies Committee (1984-1985, 1987-1988)

      • Graduate Admissions Committee (1984-1985, 1987-1988)

      • Project Director, TI Scheme Instructional Beta Test Program (1985-1987)

   2. Center for Cognitive Science:

   3. Departmental Representative, Center for Cognitive Science Advisory Committee (1995-1998, 1999-2000, 2001-present)

   4. Undergraduate Studies Committee (1999-present)

   5. co-organizer, conference on The Metaphysics of Consciousness (1999)

   6. Acting Director (1996-1997)

   7. Planning Committee, First International Summer Institute in Cognitive Science (1993-1994)

   8. Organizing Committee, CCS Conference on Cognition and Representation (1991-1992)

   9. Organizing Committee, CCS Workshop, "Where Does I Come From?" (1990)

   10. Interim Director (1989-1990)

   11. Co-Director, Graduate Group in Cognitive Science (1986-1990)

   12. Coordinator, Planning Committee, Graduate Research Initiative in Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences (1987-1989)

   13. Admissions Committee, MA Specialization in Computational Linguistics (2001-present)

   14. College of Arts & Sciences Policy Committee (1999-2001)

       • Committee for Centers and Institutes (2000-2001)

   15. College of Arts & Sciences Writing Task Force (1999-2000)

   16. Faculty Senate Committee on Academic Planning (1996-1998)

   17. Graduate School Committee on Transfer Credits (1997)

   18. Graduate School Executive Committee (1994-1996)

   19. Graduate School Fellowship Committee (1995)

   20. Faculty of Natural Science & Mathematics Divisional Committee (1993-1996)

   21. Faculty of Natural Sciences & Mathematics Undergraduate Directors Committee (1988-1991)

   22. Faculty Mentor, Undergraduate Honors Program (1988-1991)

   23. Organizing Committee, University at Buffalo Symposium in Honor of Alonzo Church (1990)

   24. Faculty member, Program for Student Success Training: Workshop on Critical Reasoning (1985)

   25. Participant, Faculty Development Program (1984)

3. At SUNY Fredonia:

   • Academic Convocation Committee (1980-1984)

   • Graduate Faculty (1979-1984)

   • Faculty member, General-Liberal Education Program (1978-1984);

   • Faculty Council (1977-1980; 1981-1983); Foreign Language and Culture Committee (1978)

   • General College Program Subcommittee (1982)

   • Chair, General-Liberal Education Program Subcommittee (1981-1982)

   • Coordinator, Analytical Skills Program (1979-1982)

   • Faculty member, Academic Advising Center (1979-1981)

   • Chair, General College Program Revision Subcommittee (1980)

   • Co-chair, Basic Skills Subcommittee (1980)

   • College representative, Association of American Colleges Workshop on General Education (Boston, 1980)

   • Faculty member, Program in Language and Linguistics (1976-1980)

   • Departmental representative, Chairpersons' Retreat (1979)

   • College representative, Conference on Logic and Liberal Learning (Carnegie-Mellon University, 1979)

   • Committee on Creative and Scholarly Research (1978-1979)

   • College representative to Symposium on Informal Logic (University of Windsor, 1978)

   • Departmental representative to Peer Advisors (1977-1978)

   • Advisor, student Philosophical Society (1976-1978)

   • Panel moderator, Purposes of Education, Moral Education, Symposium on Philosophy of Education (1977)

• Distinguished Alumnus, Department of Philosophy, Indiana University (1990)

• Steelman Visiting Scientist Distinguished Lecturer, Lenoir-Rhyne College (1989)}

• Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools Master's Scholar Award (1987)}

• {bfit American Philosophical Quarterly Essay Prize (1982)}

• SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching (1981)}