Diane Proudfoot
Position
- Associate Professor
- Supervisor of Post-Graduate Studies in Philosophy
Qualifications
- M.A. (Hons) (Edinburgh)
- M.Litt. (Cambridge)
Room
Room 604
Contact Details
Phone: +64-3-
364 2781
Internal Phone: 6781
Email:
diane.proudfoot@canterbury.ac.nz
Background
I was educated at the University of Edinburgh, Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, the University of California at Berkeley (as a Fulbright-Hays Scholar), and the University of Cambridge (as an Andrew Carnegie Scholar). I have held various visiting scholarships, including at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and New York University.
In 2000 Jack Copeland and I founded the online Turing Archive for the History of Computing (AlanTuring.net website). In 2000-2004 we received a Marsden Grant from the Royal Society of New Zealand, for research into the philosophical foundations of cognitive and computer science. My current research is in philosophy of language, Wittgenstein, cognitive science, the philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, and the philosophy of religion.
Undergraduate Courses
- PHIL 132 God, Mind, and Freedom (in 2009)
- PHIL 229 Philosophy of Religion: Rationality, Science, and the God Hypothesis
- PHIL 233 Epistemology and Metaphysics
- PHIL 235 Cyberspace, Cyborgs, and the Meaning of Life (in 2009)
- PHIL 311 Recent and Contemporary Philosophy (in 2009)
- PHIL 318 Philosophy of Religion
Graduate Courses
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PHIL 464 Contemporary Philosophy (in 2009)
Please see Diane's UC Research Profile for a full list of publications and research fields.
Recent Publications
'Fictional Entities', in S. Davies, K. Higgins, R. Hopkins, R. Stecker, and D. Cooper (eds), A Companion to Aesthetics, 2nd edition (Blackwell, in press)
'Meaning and mind: Wittgenstein's relevance for the "Does Language Shape Thought?" debate', New Ideas in Psychology. Online preprint doi:10.1016/j.newideapsych.2008.04.12 (2008)
'Turing's Test: a Philosophical and Historical Guide', in R. Epstein, G. Roberts, and G. Peters (eds), Parsing the Turing Test: Philosophical and Methodological Issues in the Quest for the Thinking Computer (Springer, 2008) (joint with B.J. Copeland)
'Possible Worlds Semantics and Fiction', Journal of Philosophical Logic 35, pp. 9-40 (2006)
'Artificial Intelligence: History, Foundations, and Philosophical Issues', in P. Thagard (ed.), Handbook of the Philosophy of Science: Philosophy of Psychology and Cognitive Science (Elsevier, 2006) (joint with B.J. Copeland)
'Review of James Moor (ed.), The Turing Test: The Elusive Standard of Artificial Intelligence', Philosophical Psychology 19(2), pp. 261-265 (2006)
'Turing and the Computer', in B.J. Copeland (ed.), Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine (Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 107-148 (joint with B.J. Copeland)
'A New Interpretation of the Turing Test', The Rutherford Journal: the New Zealand Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology 1 (December). The Rutherford Journal website (2005)
'The implications of an externalist theory of rule-following behaviour for robot cognition', Minds and Machines 14(3), pp. 283-308 (2004)
'Robots and Rule-following', in C. Teuscher (ed.), Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker (Springer-Verlag, 2004), pp. 359-379
'The Computer, Artificial Intelligence, and the Turing Test', in C. Teuscher (ed.), Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker (Springer-Verlag, 2004), pp. 317-351 (joint with B.J. Copeland)
'Alan Turing: Codebreaker and Computer Pioneer', History Today 54(7), p. 7 (joint with B.J. Copeland) (2004)
'The Conjunction Fallacy', Logique et Analyse: Festschrift for Max Cresswell on the Occasion of his 65th birthday 181, pp. 7-12 (joint with B.J. Copeland) (2003)
'Wittgenstein's Anticipation of the Chinese Room', in J. Preston and M. Bishop (eds), Views into the Chinese Room: New Essays on Searle and Artificial Intelligence (Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 167-180
'Wittgenstein's Deflationary Account of Reference', Language and Communication 22(3), pp. 331-351 (Special Issue on Language and Thought; with B.J. Copeland) (2002)
'Intelligent Machinery': Foreword (joint with B.J. Copeland) to Christof Teuscher, Turing's Connectionism: An Investigation of Neural Network Architectures (Springer-Verlag, 2002), pp. vii-xiii
'Temporal Parts and their Individuation', Analysis 61(4), pp. 289-293 (joint with B.J. Copeland and Heather Dyke) (2001)
'What Turing Did After He Invented the Universal Turing Machine', Journal of Logic, Language, and Information 9(4), pp. 491-509 (Special Issue on Alan Turing and Artificial Intelligence; joint with B.J. Copeland) (2000)
'On Alan Turing's Anticipation of Connectionism', in R. Chrisley (ed), Artificial Intelligence: Critical Concepts in Cognitive Science, Volume 2: Symbolic AI (Routledge, 2000) (joint with B.J. Copeland)