Academic Family Tree
of Hector-Neri Castañeda

compiled by

William J. Rapaport

Department of Computer Science,
Department of Philosophy,
Department of Linguistics,
and Center for Cognitive Science

State University of New York at Buffalo,
Buffalo, NY 14260, U.S.A.
rapaport@buffalo.edu

Last Update: 8 November 2015

Note: or material is highlighted

The following "academic family tree", listing Hector-Neri Castañeda's  Ph.D. students, their students (i.e., Castañeda's "grandstudents"), etc., is, no doubt, an incomplete and inaccurate list. Anyone reading this document is encouraged to send corrections and/or additional information to the compiler.

Hector-Neri Castañeda  wrote his Ph.D. dissertation in philosophy, "The Logical Structure of Moral Reasoning", under the direction of Wilfrid Sellars  at the University of Minnesota, graduating in June 1954. (Interestingly, the family tree stops with Sellars,  since Sellars's highest academic degree was not a Ph.D., but an M.A. in philosophy from State University of New York at Buffalo, under the direction of Marvin Farber.  See Sellars  1975 for details.)

Following is a chronological list of Castañeda's  Ph.D. students, his grandstudents, his great-grandstudents, and, in at least one case, his great-great-grandstudent(!); dates given are those of graduation.

1970

Jerome Gellman,  "Non-Existence, Predication, and Anselm's Ontological Argument", Department of Philosophy, Wayne State University. Currently, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-sheva, Israel.

1971, September

John Hugo Dreher,  "A Study of Human Action", Department of Philosophy, Indiana University. Currently, Associate Professor, School of Philosophy, and Associate Dean, Graduate School, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

1975

James Newby,  "The Problem of Validation", School of Philosophy, University of Southern California.

1976

Gilbert L. Shoham,  "The Semantic Theory of John Locke", School of Philosophy, University of Southern California. Currently, Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri-Kansas City.

1986

Margaret Dell Jewett,  "The Role of Moral Feeling in Kantian Ethics", School of Philosophy, University of Southern California. Retired.

1972, December

Thomas Raymond Williams,  "The Ideal Observer Theory in Ethics", Department of Philosophy, Indiana University. Currently, Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy, Carroll College, Waukesha, WI, USA.

1974, January

Donald Elmer Nute,  "Identification and Demonstrative Reference", Department of Philosophy, Indiana University (dissertation defended in 1973; degree awarded in 1974). Currently, Professor and Head, Deparment of Philosophy, and Director, Artificial Intelligence Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.

1986

Lundy Michael Lewis,  "The Ontology, Syntax, and Computability of Deontic Logic", Department of Philosophy, University of Georgia. Currently, research scientist, Cabletron Systems, Rochester, NH, USA, and a part-time teacher of computer science courses at several colleges in the area.

1995

Xiaochang Yu,  "Deontic Logic with Defeasible Detachment", Department of Philosophy, University of Georgia. Currently, Systems Librarian, Virginia Commonwealth University, Norfolk, VA, USA.

1996

Hong-Gee Kim,  "Perspectival Cognition and Knowledge Representation", Department of Philosophy, University of Georgia. Currently, programmer, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.

1976, June

Thomas Michael McKinsey,  "The Reference of Proper Names: A Critical Essay in the Philosophy of Language", Department of Philosophy, Indiana University. Currently, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA.

1985

Patrick Francken,  "Noncausal Connections and the Nature of Events", Department of Philosophy, Wayne State University. Currently, Instructor, Department of Philosophy, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, USA.

1993

David Shier,  "Russellian Non-Parallelism: Direct Reference Without
Anti-Individualism", Department of Philosophy, Wayne State University. Currently, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Washington
State University, Pullman, WA, USA.

1997

Ann-Marie Anchustegui,  "Qualitative Content and the Mind-Body Problem", Department of Philosophy, Wayne State University. Currently, Adjunct Faculty, Department of Philosophy, Wayne State University.

1976, August

William Joseph Rapaport,  "Intentionality and the Structure of Existence", Department of Philosophy, Indiana University. Currently, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, and Adjunct Professor, Department of Philosophy, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA.

1990

Janyce M. Wiebe,  "Recognizing Subjective Sentences: A Computational Investigation of Narrative Text", Department of Computer Science, State University of New York at Buffalo. Currently, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.

1995

Rebecca Bruce,  "Statistical Method For Word-Sense Disambiguation", Department of Computer Science, New Mexico State University. Currently, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Asheville.

1998

Ted Pedersen,   "Learning Probabalistic Models of Word Sense Disambiguation", Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA.

1991

Rohini K. Srihari,  "Extracting Visual Information from Text: Using Captions to Label Faces in Newspaper Photographs", Department of Computer Science, State University of New York at Buffalo. Currently, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo.

1995

Giovanni Seni,  "Large Vocabulary Recognition of On-Line Handwritten Cursive Words", Department of Computer Science, State University of New York at Buffalo. Currently, Research Scientist, Motorola-Lexicus, Palto Alto, CA, USA.

1997

Rajiv Chopra,  "An Architecture for Exploiting Qualitative, Scene-Specific Context in High-Level Computer Vision", Department of Computer Science, State University of New York at Buffalo. Currently, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Oracle Corp., Nashua, NH, USA.

1998

Kripa Sundar, "Drawing on Linguistic Context to Improve Word Recognition in Noisy Domains", Department of Computer Science, State University of New York at Buffalo. Currently with Viewlogic Corp., Boston, MA.

2001

Aibing Rao, "An Integrated Theory of Image Database Modeling, Indexing, and Content-Based Retrieval", Department of Computer Science and Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo.

1994

1. Karen Ehrlich,  "Automatic Vocabulary Expansion through Narrative Context", Department of Computer Science, State University of New York at Buffalo. Currently, consulting computational linguist, Apple Aid, Inc., Williamsville, NY, USA.
2. Robin Hill,  "Issues of Semantics in a Semantic Network Representation of Belief", Department of Computer Science, State University of New York at Buffalo. Currently, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA.

1978, March

Tomis Everett Kapitan,  "Foundations for a Theory of Propositional Form, Implication, Alethic Modality, and Generalization", Department of Philosophy, Indiana University (dissertation defended in 1977; degree awarded in 1978). Currently, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Northern Illinois University,
DeKalb, IL, USA.

1982, September

Ricardo Juan Idefonso Gomez,  "Kant's Pre-Transcendental Conception of Science", Indiana University. Currently, Professor, Department of Philosophy, California State University, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

1986, May

1. Kathleen Ann Gill,  "A Theory of Events", Department of Philosophy,
   Indiana University. Currently, Professor, Department of Philosophy,
   St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN, USA.
2. Alejandro Ibanez Herrera,  "Leibniz on Existence", Department of Philosophy, Indiana University. Currently, Investigator, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosoficas, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico, D.F. Mexico.

1986, August

Francesco Orilia,  "Natural Language Semantics and Guise Theory", Department of Philosophy, Indiana University. Currently, Ricercatore (Assistant Professor), Dipartimento di Filosofia e Scienze Umane, Università di Macerata, Macerata, Italy.

1986, December

Robert Allan Morris,  "A `Complementarity Thesis' for Doxastic Truth", Department of Philosophy, Indiana University. Currently, Associate Professor,
Computer Science Program, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, USA.

1995

1. Daniel J. Carreira, III,  "Diagnostic Models Based on Projection", Department of Computer Science, Florida Institute of Technology.
   Currently, Principal Engineer, Elcotel Inc., Sarasota, FL, USA.
2. Todd Paul Lehman,  "Believable Conflict Management for Decentralized Intelligent Systems", Department of Computer Science, Florida Institute of Technology. Currently, Assistant Professor and Department Head, Department of Computer and Information Systems and Mathematics, Goldey-Beacom College, Wilmington, DE, USA.

1987, August

Priyedarshi Jetli,  "The Origins of a Realist Conception of Relations in Plato's Phaedo", Department of Philosophy, Indiana University. Currently, Reader (Associate Professor), Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi, Delhi, India.

2003

• Ajay Verma, "Emancipation from Method: Critique of Modernism and Postmodernism", University of Delhi, Delhi, India.

2012

• Ravi Mehta, "The 'Meaning of Life' Question: A Critique of the Emerging Philosophical Explanations", University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India.

1989, June

Ana H. Marostica,  "Peirce's Conceptions of Truth: A Tychist Approach", Department of Philosophy, Indiana University. Currently, Professor, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Secretaria de Investigacion y Doctorado, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1989, December

Adriano Palma,  "Indexicality", Department of Philosophy, Indiana University. Currently, Associate Researcher, C.R.E.A., École Polytechnique, Paris, France, and Associate Professor, Institute of Philosophy, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, R.O.C.

1990, June

Jose-Manuel Favila,  "Intentionality, Mental Representation, and Intentional
Action", Department of Philosophy, Indiana University. Currently, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosoficas, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico, D.F. Mexico.