Whit Schonbein
Assistant Professor
Professor Schonbein has research interests in the philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence, and language. He is especially interested in the role that computational models play in theorizing about the mind, and his work both applies these models to philosophical debates, and also examines their broader epistemological function in the cognitive sciences.
Education
2002 - Ph.D., Philosophy, Washington University
1994 - B.A., Philosophy and Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research Interests
- Artificial intelligence philosophical issues
Publications
Schonbein, W., (2010) 'Can computational simulations of language emergence support a use theory of meaning?' Philosophical Psychology, 23(1): 59-74.
Schonbein, W., (2005) 'Cognition and the power of continuous dynamical systems', Minds and Machines, 15(1): pp. 57-71.
