DARREN ABRAMSON

Office: email: Office Phone:

3131 McCain da@dal.ca 902-494-3538

Assistant Professor

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
• Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science
• Philosophy of Computer Science
• Logic

EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Philosophy and Cognitive Science, 2006, Indiana University
M.Sc. in Computer Science, 2002, Indiana University
B.A. Hons. in Philosophy, 1998, Univ. of Toronto

PUBLICATIONS
• "Turing's Responses to Two Objections," Minds and Machines, June 2008. 
• "Growing Minds, Computability, and the Potentially Infinite," chapter in Computing
and Philosophy in Asia: Selected Papers from the Second Asia-Pacific Computing and
Philosophy Conference, 2007.
• “E.E.G. Timing and Libertarianism”, chapter in Cognitive Decision-Making: Empirical
and Foundational Issues, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007.
• “Church’s thesis and philosophy of mind.” In Olszewski, A., Wolénski, J., and Janusz, R., editors, Church’s Thesis after 70 years. Verlag, 2006.
• “Review of The Turing Test ed. S. Shieber,” Metapsychology Online, Dec. 2004.
• “Review of Rationality in Action by John Searle,” Essays in Philosophy, June 2004.
• “From Mathematical to Philosophical Truth,” Noesis, University of Toronto Undergraduate
Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 1, Winter 1998.