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Life in Fall 2018

Jennifer L. Nielsen, JLNielsen @ KU.edu Current Academic Home: KU Philosophy Department Research: Philosophy of Science / Information / Cognition / Physics Advisor: Corey Maley, PhD Princeton https://philosophy.ku.edu/corey-maley https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1754974 Coursework: Phil 611 - Topics in Advanced Symbolic Logic Phil 820 - Early Modern Women's Metaphysics (Du Chatelet, Cavendish, Conway) Phil 800 - Graduate Tutorial (Philosophy of Language Emphasis - Frege, Russel, Kripke etc) Attending Phil 860 - Topics - Resilience and Emergence Research Reading: Books: Physical Perspectives on Computation, Computational Perspectives on Physics Cuffaro/Fletcher 2018 Cognitive Biology - Gennaro Auletta Papers by Maley, Turing, Copeland, Piccinini, Shagrir, Auletta (will post links when motivated)