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Life in Fall 2018

By Jennifer Nielsen Labels:
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)












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