WILLIAM J. RAPAPORT

VITA

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EDUCATION:

• Ph.D., 1976, Indiana University (philosophy; mathematics minor)
  Dissertation: Intentionality and the Structure of Existence (Director: Hector-Neri Castañeda)

• M.S., 1984, State University of New York at Buffalo (computer science)
  Thesis: Belief Representation and Quasi-Indicators (Director: Stuart C. Shapiro)

• A.M., 1974, Indiana University (philosophy)

• 1968–1971, graduate studies (mathematics), Courant Institute, New York University

• 1968–1969, graduate studies, TEMPUS Program (mathematics education), School of Education, CUNY City College of New York

• B.A., 1968, University of Rochester (mathematics; philosophy minor)

• 1964, diploma, Fieldston School, Bronx, NY.

• 1958–1960, Birch-Wathen School, New York, NY.

• 1951–1958, PS 173 Manhattan, New York, NY.

EXPERIENCE:

• Department of Computer Science and Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo
  CSE Eminent Professor Emeritus (2017–present)
  Associate Professor Emeritus (2012–2017)
  Associate Professor (1998–2012)

• Department of Linguistics, State University of New York at Buffalo
  Affiliated Faculty (Emeritus) (2006‐present)

• Department of Philosophy, State University of New York at Buffalo
  Affiliated Faculty (Emeritus) (2006‐present)
  Adjunct Professor (1994‐2006)

• Department of Computer Science, State University of New York at Buffalo
  Associate Professor (1988–1998);
  Assistant Professor (1986–1988);
  Visiting Assistant Professor (1984–1986)

• Department of Philosophy, State University of New York, College at Fredonia
  Associate Professor (1983–1984);
  Assistant Professor (1976–1983; on leave, 1982–1983)

• Department of Mathematics, Indiana University
  Associate Instructor (1975)

• Department of Philosophy, Indiana University
  Research Assistant (9/72–8/75);
  Associate Instructor (1971–1972)

• Walden School, New York, NY
  Director of high-school mathematics program (1969–1971)

• Inwood Junior High School 52 Manhattan, New York, NY
  7th-Grade Mathematics Teacher (1968–1969)

HONORS:

• 2015: Barwise Prize, American Philosophical Association Committee on Philosophy and Computers

• 2015: Covey Award, International Association for Computing and Philosophy

• 2005: Certificate of Recognition, Career Affairs, SUNY Buffalo
  ("For the positive influence you have had on students at the University at Buffalo as described in the Year After survey of 2003 graduates.")

• 1990: Distinguished Alumnus, Department of Philosophy, Indiana University

• 1989: Steelman Visiting Scientist Distinguished Lecturer, Lenoir-Rhyne College

• 1987: Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools Master's Scholar Award (1987)}

• 1982: American Philosophical Quarterly Essay Prize

• 1981: SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Cognitive Science,
Artificial Intelligence,
Computational Linguistics,
Knowledge Representation & Reasoning,
Logic,
Philosophy of Mind,
Philosophy of Language,
Critical Thinking,
Cognitive Development
Reading Education

PUBLICATIONS:

• For a chronological list of publications, with abstracts — including works in progress — see the webpage "Publications with abstracts and links to online versions" [http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/papers.html].
• For a list of citations to my publications, see "Citations to the Work of William J. Rapaport" [http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/Papers/citations.pdf] .

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1. Books:

   1. Ph.D. Dissertation:
      • Rapaport, William J. (1976), Intentionality and the Structure of Existence (Bloomington: Indiana University Department of Philosophy)

   2. Commercially Published:
      1. Schagrin, Morton L.; Rapaport, William J.; & Dipert, Randall R. (1985), Logic: A Computer Approach (New York: McGraw-Hill).

         1. Japanese translation, Logic and Algorithms, by Takemasa Ooya (Tokyo: McGraw-Hill Japan, 1986).

         2. Italian translation, Logica e Computer, by Gianfranco Forni, revised by Marco Colombetti (Milan: McGraw-Hill Libri Italia, 1986).

         3. Italian student edition, Logica e Computer: per studenti del triennio, translated by Gianfranco Forni, adapted by Maria Cristina Valenti (Milan: McGraw-Hill Libri Italia, Divisione scuola, 1986).

         4. reprinted in Taiwan.

      2. Orilia, Francesco, & Rapaport, William J. (eds.) (1998), Thought, Language, and Ontology: Essays in Memory of Hector-Neri Castañeda, Philosophical Studies Series (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers).

      3. Rapaport, William J. (2023), Philosophy of Computer Science: An Introduction to the Issues and the Literature (Hoboken, NJ; Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell).

   3. Unpublished:

      • Rapaport, William J. (1996), Understanding Understanding: Semantics, Computation, and Cognition, Technical Report 96-26 (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Department of Computer Science).
        • Almost all of the chapters have been published as journal articles or book chapters, marked below by "[UU]"

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2. Edited Journals:

   1. Rapaport, William J. (guest editor) (1991), Special Issue on Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, Noûs, Vol. 25, No. 4 (September).

   2. Galbraith, Mary, & Rapaport, William J. (guest editors) (1995), Where Does I Come From? Special Issue on Subjectivity and the Debate over Computational Cognitive Science, Minds and Machines, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 513–620.
      • Preface

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3. Refereed Journal Articles:

   1. Rapaport, William J. (1974), "Paper Folding and Convergent Sequences", Mathematics Teacher 67(5) (May): 453–457.

   2. Rapaport, William J. (1976), "On Cogito Propositions", Philosophical Studies 29(1) (January): 63–68.

   3. Rapaport, William J. (1978), "Meinongian Theories and a Russellian Paradox", Noûs, 12(2) (May): 153–180; errata, Noûs 13 (1979): 125.
      • Most-frequently-cited publication.

   4. Rapaport, William J. (1979), "An Adverbial Meinongian Theory", Analysis 39(2) (March): 75–81.
      • Abstract of conference version pulished as Rapaport 1977.

   5. Rapaport, William J. (1981), "How to Make the World Fit Our Language: An Essay in Meinongian Semantics", Grazer Philosophische Studien 14: 1–21.

   6. Rapaport, William J. (1982), "Unsolvable Problems and Philosophical Progress", 1982 Prize Essay, American Philosophical Quarterly 19(4) (October): 289–298.

   7. Rapaport, William J. (1983), "Meinong, Defective Objects, and (Psycho-)Logical Paradox", Grazer Philosophische Studien 18: 17–39.

   8. Rapaport, William J. (1984), Critical Notice of Richard Routley's Exploring Meinong's Jungle and Beyond, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 44(4) (June): 539–552.

   9. Rapaport, William J. (1985), "To Be and Not To Be", Noûs, 19(2) (June): 255–271.

   10. Rapaport, William J. (1985/1986), "Non-Existent Objects and Epistemological Ontology", Grazer Philosophische Studien 25/26: 61–95.

       • Reprinted in Rudolf Haller (ed.), Non-Existence and Predication (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1986).

   11. Rapaport, William J. (1986), "Searle's Experiments with Thought", Philosophy of Science 53(2) (June): 271–279.

   12. Rapaport, William J. (1986), "Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence: A Course Outline", Teaching Philosophy 9(2) (June): 103–120.

   13. Wiebe, Janyce M., & Rapaport, William J. (1986), "Representing De Re and De Dicto Belief Reports in Discourse and Narrative", Special Issue on Knowledge Representation, Proceedings of the IEEE 74(10) (October): 1405–1413.

   14. Rapaport, William J. (1986), "Logical Foundations for Belief Representation", Cognitive Science 10(4) (October): 371–422.
       • Second most-frequently-cited solo publication.

   15. Rapaport, William J. (1988), "To Think or Not To Think", Noûs 22(4) (December): 585–609.

   16. Rapaport, William J. (1991), "Predication, Fiction, and Artificial Intelligence", Topoi 10(1) (March): 79–111.
       • Revised and expanded as Shapiro & Rapaport 1995 and Rapaport & Shapiro 1995, below.

   17. Shapiro, Stuart C., & Rapaport, William J. (1992), "The SNePS Family", Computers & Mathematics with Applications 23(2–5) (January-March): 243–275.
       • Third most-frequently-cited publication.
       • Reprinted in Fritz Lehmann (ed.), Semantic Networks in Artificial Intelligence (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1992): 243–275.

   18. Rapaport, William J. (1993), "Because Mere Calculating Isn't Thinking: Comments on Hauser's `Why Isn't My Pocket Calculator a Thinking Thing?'", Minds and Machines 3(1) (February): 11–20.

   19. Rapaport, William J.; Shapiro, Stuart C.; & Wiebe, Janyce M., (1997), "Quasi-Indexicals and Knowledge Reports", Cognitive Science 21(1) (January): 63–107.
       • Reprinted in Francesco Orilia & William J. Rapaport (eds.), Thought, Language, and Ontology: Essays in Memory of Hector-Neri Castañeda (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998): 235–294.

   20. Rapaport, William J. (1998), "How Minds Can Be Computational Systems", Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 10(4): 403–419.

   21. [UU] Rapaport, William J. (1999), "Implementation Is Semantic Interpretation", Special Issue on Philosophy of Computer Science, The Monist 82(1) (January): 109–130.

   22. [UU] Rapaport, William J. (2000), "How to Pass a Turing Test: Syntactic Semantics, Natural-Language Understanding, and First-Person Cognition", Special Issue on Alan Turing and Artificial Intelligence , Journal of Logic, Language, and Information 9(4) (October): 467–490.
       • Reprinted in James H. Moor (ed.), The Turing Test: The Elusive Standard of Artificial Intelligence (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2003): 161–184.

   23. [UU] Rapaport, William J. (2002), "Holism, Conceptual-Role Semantics, and Syntactic Semantics", Minds and Machines, 12(1) (February): 3–59.

   24. [UU] Rapaport, William J. (2003), "What Did You Mean by That? Misunderstanding, Negotiation, and Syntactic Semantics", Minds and Machines, 13(3) (August): 397–427.

   25. Rapaport, William J. (2005), "Philosophy of Computer Science: An Introductory Course", Teaching Philosophy 28(4) (December): 319–341.

   26. [UU] Rapaport, William J. (2006), How Helen Keller Used Syntactic Semantics to Escape from a Chinese Room", Minds and Machines, 16(4) (December): 381–436.

   27. Shapiro, Stuart C.; Rapaport, William J.; Kandefer, Michael; Johnson, Frances L.; & Goldfain, Albert (2007), "Metacognition in SNePS", AI Magazine 28(1) (Spring): 17–31.

   28. Rapaport, William J. (2011), "Yes, She Was! Reply to Ford's ‘Helen Keller Was Never in a Chinese Room’," Minds and Machines, 21(1) (Spring): 3–17.

   29. Rapaport, William J. (2011), "A Triage Theory of Grading: The Good, the Bad, and the Middling", Teaching Philosophy 34(4) (December): 347–372.

   30. Rapaport, William J. (2012), "Semiotic Systems, Computers, and the Mind: How Cognition Could Be Computing", International Journal of Signs and Semiotic Systems 2(1) (January-June): 32–71.
       • Revised version reprinted as Rapaport 2018.

   31. Rapaport, William J. (2018), "What Is a Computer? A Survey", Minds and Machines 28(3): 385–426.

   32. Rapaport, William J. (2019), "Computers Are Syntax All the Way Down: Reply to Bozşahin", Minds and Machines 29(2) (Summer): 227–237.

       Rapaport, William J. (2024), "Is Artificial General Intelligence Impossible?" Cosmos+Taxis: Studies in Emergent Order and Organization 12(5+6): 5–22.

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4. Invited Journal Articles:

   1. [UU] Rapaport, William J. (2005), "Implementation Is Semantic Interpretation: Further Thoughts", Special Issue on Theoretical Cognitive Science, Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence" 17(4) (December): 385–417.

   2. Rapaport, William J.; & Kibby, Michael W. (2007), "Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition as Computational Philosophy and as Philosophical Computation", Special Issue: Selected Papers from the 2006 North American Computers and Philosophy Conference, Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence" 19(1) (March): 1–17.

   3. Rapaport, William J. (2007), "Searle on Brains as Computers", American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers 6(2) (Spring): 4–9.

   4. Rapaport, William J. (2013), "Meinongian Semantics and Artificial Intelligence", Special Issue: "Meinong Strikes Again: Return to Impossible Objects 100 Years Later", Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies 25 (December): 25–52.

   5. Rapaport, William J. (2017), "What Is Computer Science?", American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers 16(2) (Spring): 2–22.

   6. [UU] Rapaport, William J. (2017), "Semantics as Syntax", American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers 17(1) (Fall): 2–11.

   7. Rapaport, William J. (2018), "Comments on Bringsjord's `Logicist Remarks'", American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers 18(1) (Fall): 32–34.

   8. Hill, Robin K.; & Rapaport, William J. (2018), "Exploring the Territory: The Logicist Way and Other Paths into the Philosophy of Computer Science" (interview), American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers 18(1) (Fall): 34–37. `

   9. Rapaport, William J. (2020), "Syntax, Semantics, and Computer Programs: Comments on Turner's Computational Artifacts", Philosophy and Technology 33: 309--321.

   10. Rapaport, William J. (2020), "What Is Artificial Intelligence?", Journal of Artificial General Intelligence 11(2): 52–56

   11. Rapaport, William J. (2023), "A Role for Qualia", Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness 9(3): 309--329.

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5. Refereed Conference Proceedings:
   (See also "Conference Presentations with No Published Proceedings", below. (These are the norm in philosophy and reading education, my other academic disciplines.)

   1. Rapaport, William J.; & Shapiro, Stuart C. (1984), "Quasi-Indexical Reference in Propositional Semantic Networks", Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd Annual Meeting of the Assocation for Computational Linguistics (COLING-84, Stanford University) (Morristown, NJ: Association for Computational Linguistics): 65–70.

   2. Rapaport, William J. (1985), "Meinongian Semantics for Propositional Semantic Networks", Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (University of Chicago) (Morristown, NJ: Association for Computational Linguistics): 43–48.

   3. Rapaport, William J. (1985), "Machine Understanding and Data Abstraction in Searle's Chinese Room", Proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (University of California at Irvine) (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates): 341–345.

   4. Shapiro, Stuart C.; & Rapaport, William J. (1986), "SNePS Considered as a Fully Intensional Propositional Semantic Network", Proceedings of the 5th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-86, Philadelphia) (Los Altos, CA: Morgan Kaufmann), Vol. 1, pp. 278–283.
      • Revised version reprinted as Shapiro & Rapaport 1992.

   5. Wiebe, Janyce M.; & Rapaport, William J. (1988), "A Computational Theory of Perspective and Reference in Narrative", Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (SUNY Buffalo) (Morristown, NJ: Association for Computational Linguistics): 131–138.

   6. Peters, Sandra M.; Shapiro, Stuart C.; & Rapaport, William J. (1988), "Flexible Natural Language Processing and Roschian Category Theory", Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (Montreal) (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates): 125–131.

   7. Nakhimovsky, Alexander; & Rapaport, William J. (1988), "Discontinuities in Narratives", Proceedings of the 12th International Conference of Computational Linguistics (COLING-88, Budapest): Vol. 2, pp. 465–470.

   8. Srihari, Rohini K.; & Rapaport, William J. (1989), "Extracting Visual Information From Text: Using Captions to Label Human Faces in Newspaper Photographs", Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (Ann Arbor, MI) (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates): 364–371.

   9. Peters, Sandra M.; & Rapaport, William J. (1990), "Superordinate and Basic Level Categories in Discourse: Memory and Context", Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (Cambridge, MA) (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates): 157–165.

   10. Ehrlich, Karen; & Rapaport, William J. (1997), "A Computational Theory of Vocabulary Expansion", Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (Stanford University) (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates): 205–210.

   11. Rapaport, William J.; & Kibby, Michael W. (2002), "Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition: A Computational Theory and Educational Curriculum", in Nagib Callaos; Ana Breda; & Ma. Yolanda Fernandez J. (eds.), Proceedings of the 6th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2002; Orlando, FL) (Orlando: International Institute of Informatics and Systemics), Vol. II: Concepts and Applications of Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics I, pp. 261–266.

   12. Rapaport, William J. (2003), "What Is the ‘Context’ for Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition?", in Peter P. Slezak (ed.), Proceedings of the 4th Joint International Conference on Cognitive Science/7th Australasian Society for Cognitive Science Conference (ICCS/ASCS-2003; Sydney, Australia) (Sydney: University of New South Wales), Vol. 2, pp. 547–552.

   13. Rapaport, William J. (2005), "In Defense of Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition: How to Do Things with Words in Context", in Anind Dey, Boicho Kokinov, David Leake, & Roy Turner (eds.), Proceedings of the 5th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (Context-05, Paris, July) (Berlin: Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3554): 396–409.

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6. Published Abstracts of Unpublished Refereed Conference Presentations:

   1. Rapaport, William J. (1977), "Adverbial Theories and Meinongian Theories", abstract of a colloquium presentation given at the 1977 Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Journal of Philosophy 74(10) (October): 635.
      • Full text of presentation published as Rapaport 1979.

   2. Rapaport, William J. (1979), "An Algebraic Interpretation of Deontic Logic", abstract of an unpublished talk given at the 1978 Summer Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Journal of Symbolic Logic 44(3) (September): 472.
      • Online manuscript of complete paper

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7. Invited, Refereed Book Chapters:

   1. Rapaport, William J. (1987a), "Belief Systems", in Stuart C. Shapiro (ed.), Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence (New York: John Wiley): 63–73.
      • Revised as Rapaport 1992a.

   2. Rapaport, William J. (1987b), "Logic", in Stuart C. Shapiro (ed.), Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence (New York: John Wiley): 536–538.
      • Revised as Rapaport 1992b.

   3. Rapaport, William J. (1987c), "Logic, Predicate", in Stuart C. Shapiro (ed.), Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence (New York: John Wiley): 538–544.
      • Revised as Rapaport 1992c.

   4. Rapaport, William J. (1987d), "Logic, Propositional", in Stuart C. Shapiro (ed.), Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence (New York: John Wiley): 558–563.
      • Revised as Rapaport 1992d.

   5. Shapiro, Stuart C.; & Rapaport, William J. (1987), "SNePS Considered as a Fully Intensional Propositional Semantic Network", in Nick Cercone & Gordon McCalla (eds.), The Knowledge Frontier: Essays in the Representation of Knowledge (New York: Springer-Verlag): 262–315.
      • Second most-frequently-cited publication.

   6. Rapaport, William J. (1991), "Meinong, Alexius; I: Meinongian Semantics", in Hans Burkhardt & Barry Smith (eds.), Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology (Munich: Philosophia Verlag): 516–519.

   7. Shapiro, Stuart C.; & Rapaport, William J. (1991), "Models and Minds: Knowledge Representation for Natural-Language Competence", in Robert Cummins & John Pollock (eds.), Philosophy and AI: Essays at the Interface (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press): 215–259.

   8. Rapaport, William J. (1993), "Cognitive Science", in Anthony Ralston & Edwin D. Reilly (eds.), Encyclopedia of Computer Science, 3rd edition (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold): 185–189.
      • Revised as Rapaport 2000.

   9. Shapiro, Stuart C.; & Rapaport, William J. (1995), "An Introduction to a Computational Reader of Narratives", in Judith Felson Duchan, Gail A. Bruder, & Lynne E. Hewitt (eds.), Deixis in Narrative: A Cognitive Science Perspective (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates): 79–105.
      • Revised and expanded version of the first half of Rapaport 1991.

   10. Rapaport, William J.; & Shapiro, Stuart C. (1995), "Cognition and Fiction", in Judith Felson Duchan, Gail A. Bruder, & Lynne E. Hewitt (eds.), Deixis in Narrative: A Cognitive Science Perspective (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates): 107–128.
       • Revised and expanded version of the second half of Rapaport 1991.

   11. Rapaport, William J.; & Shapiro, Stuart C. (1999), "Cognition and Fiction: An Introduction", in Ashwin Ram & Kenneth Moorman (eds.), Understanding Language Understanding: Computational Models of Reading (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press): 11–25.
       • Abridged and slightly edited version of Rapaport & Shapiro 1995.

   12. Rapaport, William J. (2000), "Cognitive Science", in Anthony Ralston, Edwin D. Reilly & David Hemmendinger (eds.), Encyclopedia of Computer Science, 4th edition (New York: Grove's Dictionaries): 227–233.
       • Revision of Rapaport 1993

   13. Rapaport, William J. (2004), "Cognitive Science", in Edwin D. Reilly (ed.), Concise Encyclopedia of Computer Science (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons): 110–111;
       • Highly abridged version of Rapaport 2000

   14. Rapaport, William J. (2005), "Castañeda, Hector-Neri", in John R. Shook (ed.), The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, 1860–1960 (Bristol, UK: Thoemmes Press): 452–457.

   15. Rapaport, William J. (2006), "The Turing Test", in Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Edition (Oxford: Elsevier), Vol. 13, pp. 151–159.

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8. Invited but Non-Refereed Book Chapters:

   1. Rapaport, William J. (1988), "Syntactic Semantics: Foundations of Computational Natural-Language Understanding", in James H. Fetzer (ed.), Aspects of Artificial Intelligence (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers): 81–131.
      • Third most-frequently-cited solo publication.
      • Errata.
      • Reprinted (with numerous errors) in Eric Dietrich (ed.) (1994), Thinking Computers and Virtual Persons: Essays on the Intentionality of Machines (San Diego: Academic Press): 225–273.

   2. Srihari, Rohini K.; & Rapaport, William J. (1990), "Combining Linguistic and Pictorial Information: Using Captions to Interpret Newspaper Photographs", in Deepak Kumar (ed.), Current Trends in SNePS—Semantic Network Processing System, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, No. 437 (Berlin: Springer-Verlag): 85–96.

   3. Rapaport, William J. (1990), "Representing Fiction in SNePS", in Deepak Kumar (ed.), Current Trends in SNePS—Semantic Network Processing System, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, No. 437 (Berlin: Springer-Verlag): 107–121.

   4. Rapaport, William J. (1992a), "Belief Representation Systems", in Stuart C. Shapiro (ed.), Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, 2nd edition (New York: John Wiley): 98–110.
      • Revision of Rapaport 1987a.

   5. Rapaport, William J. (1992b), "Logic", in Stuart C. Shapiro (ed.), Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, 2nd edition (New York: John Wiley): 851–853.
      • Revision of Rapaport 1987b.

   6. Rapaport, William J. (1992c), "Logic, Predicate", in Stuart C. Shapiro (ed.), Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, 2nd edition (New York: John Wiley): 866–873;
      • Revision of Rapaport 1987c.

   7. Rapaport, William J. (1992d), "Logic, Propositional", in Stuart C. Shapiro (ed.), Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, 2nd edition (New York: John Wiley): 891–897.
      • Revision of Rapaport 1987d.

   8. Shapiro, Stuart C.; & Rapaport, William J. (1992), "A Fully Intensional Propositional Semantic Network", in Leslie Burkholder (ed.), Philosophy and the Computer (Boulder, CO: Westview Press): 75–91.
      • Revised version of Shapiro & Rapaport 1986.

   9. [UU] Rapaport, William J. (1995), "Understanding Understanding: Syntactic Semantics and Computational Cognition", in James E. Tomberlin (ed.), AI, Connectionism, and Philosophical Psychology, Philosophical Perspectives, Vol. 9 (Atascadero, CA: Ridgeview): 49–88.
      • Reprinted in Toribio, Josefa; & Clark, Andy (eds.) (1998), Language and Meaning in Cognitive Science: Cognitive Issues and Semantic Theory, Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, Vol. 4: Conceptual Issues (New York: Garland): 73–88.

   10. Rapaport, William J.; & Ehrlich, Karen (2000), "A Computational Theory of Vocabulary Acquisition", in Łucja M. Iwańska & Stuart C. Shapiro (eds.), Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Representation: Language for Knowledge and Knowledge for Language (Menlo Park, CA/Cambridge, MA: AAAI Press/MIT Press): 347–375.
       • Errata

   11. Kibby, Michael W.; Rapaport, William J.; Wieland, Karen M.; & Dechert, Deborah A. (2008), "Play Lesson 4: CSI: Contextual Semantic Investigation" in Lawrence Baines (ed.), A Teacher's Guide to Multisensory Learning: Improving Literacy by Engaging the Senses (Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development): 163‐173.

   12. Rapaport, William J. (2012), "Can't We Just Talk? Commentary on Arel's ‘The Threat of a Reward-Driven Adversarial Artificial General Intelligence’", in Amnon H. Eden; James H. Moor; Johnny H. Søraker; & Eric Steinhart (eds.), Singularity Hypotheses: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment (Berlin: Springer): 59–60.

   13. Rapaport, William J.; & Kibby, Michael W. (2014), "Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition: From Algorithm to Curriculum", in Adriano Palma (ed.), Castañeda and His Guises: Essays on the Work of Hector-Neri Castañeda (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter): 107–150.
       • An earlier (2010) version, with less about Castañeda and more about CVA, is here.

   14. Rapaport, William J. (2017), "On the Relation of Computing to the World", in Thomas M. Powers (ed.), Philosophy and Computing: Essays in Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Logic, and Ethics (Cham, Switzerland: Springer): 29–64.

   15. Rapaport, William J. (2018) "Syntactic Semantics and the Proper Treatment of Computationalism" in Marcel Danesi (ed.), Empirical Research on Semiotics and Visual Rhetoric (Hershey, PA: IGI Global): 128–176 (references, pp. 273–307).

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9. Invited Book Reviews:

   1. Rapaport, William J. (1986), Review of Karel Lambert, Meinong and the Principle of Independence: Its Place in Meinong's Theory of Objects and Its Significance in Contemporary Philosophical Logic (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1983), in Journal of Symbolic Logic 51(1) (March): 248–252.

   2. Rapaport, William J. (1986), Review of Deborah G. Johnson & John W. Snapper (eds.), Ethical Issues in the Use of Computers (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1985), in Teaching Philosophy 9(3) (September): 275–278.

   3. Rapaport, William J. (1988), Review of Joseph Y. Halpern (ed.), Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning About Knowledge: Proceedings of the 1986 Conference (Los Altos, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1986), in Journal of Symbolic Logic 53(2) (June): 660–670.

   4. Rapaport, William J. (1988), Review of Michael Devitt & Kim Sterelny's Language and Reality (1st edition) (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987), and of Robert M. Martin, The Meaning of Language (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987), in Computational Linguistics 14(3) (September): 108–113.

   5. Rapaport, William J. (1997), Review of "Willard van Orman Quine" homepage ["http://users.aol.com/drquine/wv-quine.html"], in American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers No.  1 (Fall): 40–41.
      • Current version of the Quine website is: http://www.wvquine.org/

   6. Rapaport, William J. (2000), Review of Steven Pinker's How the Mind Works (New York: W.W. Norton, 1997), in Minds and Machines: 10(3) (August): 381–389.

   7. Rapaport, William J. (2005), Review of Stuart M. Shieber's The Turing Test: Verbal Behavior as the Hallmark of Intelligence, in Computational Linguistics 31(3) (September): 407–412.

   8. Rapaport, William J. (2006), Review of John Preston & Mark Bishop (eds.), Views into the Chinese Room: New Essays on Searle and Artificial Intelligence, in Australasian Journal of Philosophy 84(1) (March): 129–133.

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10. Other Published Articles:

    1. Rapaport, William J. (1979), "Interdisciplinary 'Informal Logic' Course", Informal Logic Newsletter 1 (May): 6–7; 2 (November): 14; also contributed to Informal Logic Newsletter 1 (July).

    2. Rapaport, William J. (1984), "Can Philosophy Solve Its Own Problems?", The [SUNY] News 13 (May/June): F2–F3.

    3. Rapaport, William J. (1984), "From the Editor", American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy 1 (Spring/Summer): 1–2.

    4. Rapaport, William J. (1984), "Critical Thinking and Cognitive Development", American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy 1 (Spring/Summer): 4–5.
       • Reprinted in Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 57(5) (May) (1984): 610–615.

    5. Hardt (now Loeb), Shoshana L.; & Rapaport, William J. (eds.) (1986), "Recent and Current Artificial Intelligence Research in the Department of Computer Science, SUNY Buffalo", AI Magazine 7 (Summer): 91–100.

    6. Rapaport, William J. (1986), "Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, and the Chinese-Room Argument", Abacus: The Magazine for the Computer Professional 3 (Summer): 6–17; correspondence: Abacus 4 (Winter 1987): 6–7; Abacus 4 (Spring 1987): 5–7.

    7. Rapaport, William J. (1986), "Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy" (editor's column), American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy (Fall): 11–12.

    8. Rapaport, William J. (ed.) (1987), "SUNY at Buffalo Department of Computer Science Graduate Student Open House", SIGART Newsletter No. 99 (January): 22–24.

    9. Rapaport, William J. (ed.) (1987), "Second Annual SUNY Buffalo Graduate Conference on Computer Science", SIGART Newsletter No. 100 (April): 23–25.

    10. Rapaport, William J. (1987), "Philosophy for Children and Other People", American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy (Summer): 19–22.

    11. Rapaport, William J. (1991), "The Inner Mind and the Outer World: Guest Editor's Introduction", Special Issue on Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, Noûs, 25(4) (September): 405–410.

    12. Orilia, Francesco; & Rapaport, William J. (1998), "Thought, Language, and Ontology: An Introduction", in Francesco Orilia & William J. Rapaport (eds.), Thought, Language, and Ontology: Essays in Memory of Hector-Neri Castañeda (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998): ix–xxi.

    13. Rapaport, William J. (1998), "Prolegomena to a Study of Hector-Neri Castañeda's Influence on Artificial Intelligence: A Survey and Personal Reflections", in Francesco Orilia & William J. Rapaport (eds.), Thought, Language, and Ontology: Essays in Memory of Hector-Neri Castañeda (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998): 345–367.

    14. Rapaport, William J. (1998), "Academic Family Tree of Hector-Neri Castañeda", in Francesco Orilia & William J. Rapaport (eds.), Thought, Language, and Ontology: Essays in Memory of Hector-Neri Castañeda (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998): 369–374.

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11. Technical Reports Not Otherwise Published:

    1. Rapaport, William J. (1984), "Belief Representation and Quasi-Indicators", Technical Report 215 (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Department of Computer Science).
       • A revised version was published as Rapaport 1986.

    2. Rapaport, William J.; Shapiro, Stuart C.; & Wiebe, Janyce M.; (1986), "Quasi-Indicators, Knowledge Reports, and Discourse", Technical Report 86-15 (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Department of Computer Science).
       • A substantially revised version was published as Rapaport, Shapiro, & Wiebe 1997.

    3. Bruder, Gail A.; Duchan, Judith Felson; Rapaport, William J.; Segal, Erwin M.; Shapiro, Stuart C.; & Zubin, David A. (1986), "Deictic Centers in Narrative: An Interdisciplinary Cognitive-Science Project", Technical Report 86-20 SUNY Buffalo Department of Computer Science).

    4. Rapaport, William J. (1986/1987), "A Computational Theory of Natural-Language Understanding", Computer Science Research Review (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Department of Computer Science): 25–31.

    5. Srihari, Sargur N.; Rapaport, William J.; & Kumar, Deepak (1987), "On Knowledge Representation Using Semantic Networks and Sanskrit", Technical Report 87-03 (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Department of Computer Science).

    6. Rapaport, William J.; Wiebe, Janyce M.; & Dipert, Randall R. (1987/1988), "Intensional Knowledge Representation", Computer Science Research Review (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Department of Computer Science): 48–63.

    7. Shapiro, Stuart C.; & Rapaport, William J. (1987), "Knowledge Representation for Natural Language Processing", Presentations from the 1987 Natural Language Planning Workshop (Minnowbrook Conference Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY) (Rome Air Development Center, Griffis Air Force Base, NY: NAIC [Northeast Artificial Intelligence Consortium] Technical Report Series): 56–77.
       • Revised version published as Shapiro & Rapaport 1991

    8. Shapiro, Stuart C. & Rapaport, William J. (1988, March), "Models and Minds: A Reply to Barnden", Northeast Artificial Intelligence Consortium Technical Report TR-8737 (Syracuse: Syracuse University). Reprinted as "Models and Minds", Computer Science Research Review (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Dept. of Computer Science, 1988–1989): 24–30.
       • Incorporated into Shapiro & Rapaport 1991.

    9. Rapaport, William J.; & the SNePS Research Group (1988), "A Knowledge-Representation Challenge for SNePS", SNeRG Technical Note No. 20 (Buffalo: SNePS Research Group, SUNY Buffalo Department of Computer Science).

    10. Roberts, Lawrence D.; & Rapaport, William J. (1988), "Quantifier Order, Reflexive Pronouns, and Quasi-Indexicals", Technical Report 88-16 SUNY Buffalo Department of Computer Science).

    11. Rapaport, William J.; Segal, Erwin M.; Shapiro, Stuart C.; Zubin, David A. Bruder, Gail A.; Duchan, Judith Felson; Almeida, Michael J.; Daniels, Joyce H.; Galbraith, Mary, Wiebe, Janyce M.; & Yuhan, Albert Hanyong (1989), "Deictic Centers and the Cognitive Structure of Narrative Comprehension", Technical Report 89-01 (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Department of Computer Science).

    12. Rapaport, William J.; Segal, Erwin M.; Shapiro, Stuart C.; Zubin, David A.; Bruder, Gail A.; Duchan, Judith Felson; & Mark, David M. (1989), "Cognitive and Computer Systems for Understanding Narrative Text", Technical Report 89-07 (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Department of Computer Science).

    13. Rapaport, William J. (1990), "Computer Processes and Virtual Persons: Comments on Cole's ‘Artificial Intelligence and Personal Identity’", Technical Report 90-13 (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Department of Computer Science).

    14. Galbraith, Mary; & Rapaport, William J. (eds.) (1991), "Where Does I Come From? Subjectivity and the Debate over Computational Cognitive Science", Technical Report 91-01 (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Center for Cognitive Science).

    15. Ehrlich, Karen; & Rapaport, William J. (1992), "Automatic Acquisition of Word Meanings from Natural-Language Contexts", Technical Report 92-03 (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Center for Cognitive Science).

    16. Ehrlich, Karen; & Rapaport, William J. (1993), "Vocabulary Expansion through Natural-Language Context", Proceedings of the 8th Annual University at Buffalo Graduate Conference on Computer Science (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Department of Computer Science): 78–84.

    17. Ehrlich, Karen; & Rapaport, William J. (1995), "A Computational Theory of Vocabulary Expansion: Project Proposal", Technical Report 95-15 (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Department of Computer Science) and Technical Report 95-08 (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Center for Cognitive Science).

    18. Koepsell, David R.; & Rapaport, William J. (1995), "The Ontology of Cyberspace: Questions and Comments", Technical Report 95-25 (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Department of Computer Science) and Technical Report 95-09 (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Center for Cognitive Science).

    19. Jacquette, Dale; & Rapaport, William J. (1995), "Virtual Relations vs. Virtual Universals: Essay, Comments, and Reply", Technical Report 95-10 (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Center for Cognitive Science).

    20. Rapaport, William J. (1996), "Cognitive Science", Technical Report 96-19 (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Department of Computer Science) (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Department of Computer Science, October 1996) and Technical Report 96-4 (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Center for Cognitive Science).
        • Longer version of Rapaport 2000.

PRESENTATIONS:

1. Conference Presentations with No Published Proceedings
   (Conferences with no published proceedings are the norm in philosophy and reading education.)
   • Submitted, Refereed Conference Presentations:
     1. December 2008:
        "Acquiring a Sense of a Word's Meaning from Verbal Context: Processes, Outcomes, and Curricular Directions", with Karen M. Wieland, Michael W. Kibby, & Tanya M. Christ (presenters), National Reading Conference (Orlando, FL).

     2. 2006:
        "Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition: Cognitive Processes and Instructional Methods", with Michael W. Kibby (presenter), & Karen M. Wieland, International Reading Association 21st World Congress on Reading (Budapest).

     3. 2004:
        "Helping Students Apply Reasoning to Gaining Word Meanings from Context: Application of Artificial Intelligence and Verbal Protocol Data to Curriculum Design", co-presented with Michael W. Kibby, 49th Annual Convention of the International Reading Association (Reno, NV).

     4. 1994:
        "Deictic Centers and the Cognitive Structure of Narrative Comprehension", co-presented with Erwin M. Segal, First International Colloquium on Deixis (University of Kentucky).
        • Published as Rapaport et al. 1989

     5. 1982:
        "Unsolvable Problems and Philosophical Progress", Creighton Club/New York State Philosophical Association (University of Rochester).
        • Published as Rapaport 1982

     6. 1981:
        "Meinong, Defective Objects, and Psychological Paradoxes", Tri-State Philosophical Association (Pennsylvania State University/Behrend College).
        • Published as Rapaport 1983

     7. 1978:
        "An Algebraic Interpretation of Deontic Logic", Association for Symbolic Logic (University of Wisconsin).
        • See Rapaport 1979

     8. 1978:
        "The Algebraic Structure of Ethical Language", Mathematical Association of America, Seaway Section (Brock University, St. Catherine's, Ontario).
        • See Rapaport 1979

     9. 1978:
        "The Logical Structure of Ethical Language", Niagara Linguistics Society (SUNY Buffalo).
        • See Rapaport 1979

     10. 1978:
         "How to Make the World Fit Our Language" Tri-State Philosophical Association (1978).
         • Published as Rapaport 1981

     11. 1977:
         "Adverbial Theories and Meinongian Theories":
         • Ontology Colloquium, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division (Washington, DC).
         • Tri-State Philosophical Association.

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   • Invited Conference Presentations:

     1. "What Is Computer Science?", Barwise Prize presentation, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division (Baltimore, 2017).
        • Published as Rapaport 2017, "What Is Computer Science?".

     2. "On the Relation of Computing to the World", Covey Award Keynote Address, International Association for Computing and Philosophy (CEPE-IACAP Joint 2015 Conference) (University of Delaware).
        • Published as Rapaport 2017, "On the Relation of Computing to the World".

     3. "Salvaging Computationalism: How Cognition Could Be Computing"
        • Society for Machines and Mentality Symposium on Computation, AI, and Simulating Human Behaviour, Canadian Philosophical Association Congress (University of Waterloo, 2012).
        • North American Conference on Computing and Philosophy (NA-CAP 2010) (Carnegie-Mellon University, 2010).
        • International Association for Computing and Philosophy, meeting collocated with the American Philosophical Association Central Division (Chicago, 2009).
          • Published as Rapaport 2012

     4. "From Guise Theory to Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition", Language, Experience, and Reality: Workshop to Celebrate Hector-Neri Castañeda (University of Urbino (Italy), 2011).
        • Published as Rapaport & Kibby 2014

     5. "Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition: A Computational Theory and Curriculum", North American Computing and Philosophy Conference (NACAP-06) (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2006).
        • Published as Rapaport & Kibby 2007.

     6. "Philosophy of Computer Science"
        • Herbert A. Simon Keynote Address, North American Computing and Philosophy Conference (NACAP-06) (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2006).
        • Workshop on Philosophy in Western New York: Past, Present, Future (SUNY Fredonia, 2006).
          • Based on Rapaport 2005.

     7. "How Minds Can Be Computational Systems", part of an Invited Symposium, Are Minds Computational Systems, 88th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology (Nashville, 1996).
        • Published as Rapaport 1998

     8. "Prolegomena to an Investigation of Hector-Neri Castañeda's Influence on Artificial Intelligence", Society for Iberian and Latin American Thought, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division (New York, 1995).
        • Published as Rapaport 1998

     9. Comments on David R. Koepsell's "The Ontology of Cyberspace", Tri-State Philosophical Association (St. Bonaventure University, 1995).
        • Published as Koepsell & Rapaport 1995

     10. "Can Computers Understand Language? A Cognitive-Science Approach to Understanding Narrative Texts", Reassessing the Cognitive Revolution: An Interdisciplinary Seminar (York University, 1993).

     11. Comments on Michael Gorman's "Error and Intentionality", Tri-State Philosophical Association (SUNY Fredonia, 1991).

     12. "Because Mere Calculating Isn't Thinking: Comments on Hauser's ‘Why Isn't My Pocket Calculator a Thinking Thing?’", Colloquium on Philosophy of Mind, American Philosophical Association Central Division (Chicago, 1991).
         • Published as Rapaport 1993

     13. "What is Cognitive Science?", Workshop on Artificial Intelligence: An Emerging Science or a Dying Art Form? (SUNY Binghamton Program in Philosophy and Computer & Systems Science, 1990).

     14. "Computer Processes and Virtual Persons: Comments on Cole's ‘Artificial Intelligence and Personal Identity’", Colloquium on Artificial Intelligence, American Philosophical Association Central Division (New Orleans, 1990).
         • Published as Rapaport 1990.

     15. "Aspects of Predication in a Propositional Semantic Network", Conference on Problems and Changes in the Concept of Predication (University of California Humanities Research Institute, University of California at Irvine, 1989).
         • Published as Rapaport 1991

     16. "Reflections on Reflexives and Quasi-Indexicals: Comments on Roberts's ‘Quantifier Order, Reflexive Pronouns, and Quasi-Indexicals’", Colloquium on Philosophy of Language, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division (New York, 1987).
         • Published as Roberts & Rapaport 1988

     17. "Computational Philosophy", Second Annual Philosophy and Computers Conference (Michigan State University, 1987).

     18. "Comments on Cole's ‘Thoughts and Thought Experiments’", Colloquium on Philosophy of Mind, American Philosophical Association Western Division (Milwaukee, 1984).

     19. "Comments on Dibrell's ‘Persons and the Intentional Stance’", Creighton Club/New York State Philosophical Association (Cazenovia, NY, 1984).

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2. Non-Conference Presentations:
   • Invited External Presentations:
     1. "How Cognition Could Be Computing: Semiotic Systems, Computers, and the Mind", Issues in Cognitive Science lecture series, Department of Cognitive Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2011)

     2. "Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language, and the Chinese Room", inaugural lecture, external-speaker series, Southwestern High School, Lakewood, NY (2009)

     3. "Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition: From Algorithm to Curriculum", guest lecture in CMSC B325, Computational Linguistics, Bryn Mawr College (2007).

     4. "Philosophy of Computer Science", Department of Philosophy, Bryn Mawr College; and Delaware Valley Distinguished Lecture Series in Computer Science, jointly hosted by Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore Colleges and Villanova University (2007).

     5. "The Perry Scheme of Intellectual Development: Approaches to Successful Learning", Nova Southeastern University (2006).
        • PowerPoint version
        • PDF version

     6. "In Defense of Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition: How to Do Things with Words in Context", Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2005).

     7. "How to Pass a Turing Test and Escape from the Chinese Room", Computational Linguistics Seminar, Artificial Intelligence Research Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto (2002)

     8. "Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition: A Computational Theory and Educational Curriculum", Computational Linguistics Seminar, Artificial Intelligence Research Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto (2002)

     9. "How Cassie (A Computational Cognitive Agent (Implemented in an Intensional Knowledge-Representation, Reasoning, and Acting System)) Can Learn New Words from Context"
        • AI Seminar Series, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta (2000).
        • UMIACS Logic & AI Seminar, University of Maryland at College Park (2000).
        • Department of Computer Science, SUNY Geneseo (2000).

     10. "A Computational Theory of Vocabulary Acquisition", Program in Philosophy and Computers and Cognitive Science (PACCS), SUNY Binghamton (1999).

     11. "How to Pass a Turing Test: Syntax Suffices for Understanding Natural Language", master class taught to graduate students in the Program in Philosophy and Computers and Cognitive Science (PACCS), SUNY Binghamton (1999).

     12. "How Computers Can Think: A Conversation with Cassie; or, Knowledge Representation for Natural-Language Understanding", Exceptional Minds/Exceptional Machines: Minds and Machines Public Lecture Series, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1998).

     13. "Intelligent Chinese-English Machine Translation" (with Min-Hung Liao), General Motors Research and Development Center, Warren, MI (1996).

     14. "A Computational Theory of Vocabulary Expansion Using an Intensional Knowledge Representation System", Department of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario (1996).

     15. "Deictic Centers and the Cognitive Structure of Narrative Comprehension"
         • Artificial Intelligence Center, University of Georgia (1995).
         • Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester (1988).
         • Kodak Advanced Computing Research Labs, Rochester, NY (1988).
         • IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY (1988).

     16. "The Perry Scheme of Intellectual Development", Teaching Resource Center, Erie Community College, North Campus (1994)

     17. "Can Computers Understand Language? A Cognitive-Science Approach to Understanding Narrative Texts", Department of Philosophy, SUNY Fredonia (1992).

     18. "Predication, Fiction, and Knowledge Representation", 1989-1990 Distinguished Alumni Lecture, Department of Philosophy, Indiana University (1990).

     19. "The SNePS Knowledge Representation and Reasoning System"
         • Computer and Information Science Department, Syracuse University (1989).
         • Program in Philosophy and Computer & Systems Sciences, SUNY Binghamton (1988).

     20. "Knowledge Representation for Natural-Language Understanding", Rochester Chapter, Association for Computing Machinery (1988).

     21. "Cognitive Science: Sciences of the Mind"
         and
         "Knowledge Representation for Natural-Language Understanding",
         11th Steelman Visiting Scientist Distinguished Lectureship Lenoir-Rhyne College (1988).

     22. "Computational Philosophy"
         • Department of Psychology, Stockton State College (1987).
         • Department of Computer Science, Colgate University (1987).

     23. "Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy", Department of Computer Science, Colgate University (1986).

     24. "Intensional Knowledge Representation in SNePS", Advanced Computational Methods Center, University of Georgia (1986).

     25. SNePS Workshop (with Stuart C. Shapiro), Department of Computer Science, University of Lowell (1986).

     26. "Logical Foundations for Belief Representation"
         • Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin (1986).
         • Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto (1986).
         • Department of Philosophy, St. Bonaventure University (1985).

     27. "Philosophy and Cognitive Science", part of panel presentation on Cognitive Science, Niagara County Community College (1986).

     28. "Belief Representation and Knowledge Representation", Department of Computer Science, Tulane University (1984).

     29. "How to Make the World Fit Our Language"
         • Department of Philosophy, Ohio State University (1981).
         • Department of Philosophy, University of Santa Clara (1981).
         • Department of Philosophy, Lawrence University (1977).

     30. "Some Thoughts about Thought and Language", Department of Philosophy, SUNY Fredonia (1976).

     31. "Meinong's Theory of Objects Vindicated", Department of Philosophy, SUNY Geneseo (1975).

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   • Invited Internal Presentations
     (all at SUNY Buffalo, except as noted)
     1. "Peer Editing", Genteels' Excellence in Teaching Conference: Strategies to Maximize Student Engagement, Session on Management and Learning Activities for Large Classes (2010).

     2. "Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language, the Chinese Room, and Reading for Understanding", PSY 575, Introduction to Cognitive Science (2010).

     3. "Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition: From Algorithm to Curriculum"
        • CSE 663, Advanced Knowledge Representation & Reasoning (2010)
        • Center for Cognitive Science (2009, 2003)
        • 4th Annual IGERT Colloquium Series (Department of Geography, 2002)

     4. "In Defense of Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition: How to Do Things with Words in Context", Center for Cognitive Science (2005).

     5. "How to Pass a Turing Test and Escape from the Chinese Room",
        • LIN 575, Introduction to Cognitive Science (2003)
        • PHI 525, Philosophical Analysis (2002)
        • PHI 575, Introduction to Cognitive Science (1999)

     6. "The Perry Scheme of Intellectual Development"
        • Summer Teaching Assistant Workshops (1990, 1992–1997, 1999–2003)
        • Critical Thinking Conference, Office of Teaching Effectiveness (1993)
        • Teaching the Undergraduate Science Courses of the General Education Program (1992)
        • Summer Faculty Development Workshop for Science Core Curriculum (1991–1992)
        • Department of Computer Science Colloquium (1991–1992)

     7. Panel member, UB Sesquicentennial Symposium on Frontiers of Knowledge in Nature, Society, and Culture: Does the Body Matter? (1996).

     8. Comments on John Corcoran's "Critical Thinking and Education", Department of Philosophy and Buffalo Logic Colloquium (1996).

     9. "How Minds Can Be Computational Systems", Center for Cognitive Science (1996).

     10. "Virtual Universals: Comments on Dale Jacquette's ‘Virtual Relations’", Marvin Farber Conference on the Ontology and Epistemology of Relations (Department of Philosophy, 1994).
         • Published as Jacquette & Rapaport 1995

     11. "Can Computers Understand Language? A Cognitive-Science Approach to Understanding Narrative Texts", Workshop on Deixis in Narrative, First International Summer Institute in Cognitive Science (1994).

     12. "Cognition, Narrative, and Computation", Cognitive Science Graduate Club (1992)

     13. "Cognitive and Computer Systems for Understanding Narrative Text", Symposium on Cognitive, Computational, and Phenomenological Approaches to Understanding Narrative, Center for Cognitive Science (1991).

     14. "Computational Philosophy (or: Philosophical Computation?)", Center for Cognitive Science (1991).

     15. "Artificial Intelligence and Fiction", Department of Biophysical Sciences (1990).

     16. "Representing Fiction in SNePS", First Annual SNePS Workshop (1989).

     17. "Artificial Intelligence", Science Exploration Day (1987, 1989).

     18. "Artificial Intelligence"
         and
         "Cognitive Science",
         Faculty and Students Together (1988).

     19. "Artificial Intelligence", Western NY Science Forum (1988).

     20. "Intellectual Growth and Critical Thinking", Mentor Program Seminar (1986–1987).

     21. "Philosophy and Computers", Undergraduate Philosophy Club (1985).

     22. "Machine Understanding and Data Abstraction in Searle's Chinese Room"
         • Department of Philosophy (1984).
         • Department of Computer Science (1984).

     23. "Belief Representation and Knowledge Representation"
         • Department of Computer Science (1984).
         • Computer Science Club, SUNY Fredonia (1984).

     24. "Unsolvable Problems and Philosophical Progress", Department of Philosophy, SUNY Fredonia (1981).

     25. "Meinong, Defective Objects, and Psychological Paradoxes"
         • Buffalo Logic Colloquium (1981).
         • Department of Philosophy, SUNY Fredonia (1980).

     26. "A Logician's Approach to Language", Language and Linguistics Club, SUNY Fredonia (1977).

     27. "How to Make the World Fit Our Language", Department of Philosophy, SUNY Fredonia (1977).

     28. "A Paradox in the Structure of Existence", Department of Philosophy, SUNY Fredonia (1976).

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS:

TEACHING:

• Ph.D. Dissertation Director
  (Department of Computer Science (& Engineering), SUNY Buffalo):

  1. Janyce M. Wiebe, "Recognizing Subjective Sentences: A Computational Investigation of Narrative Text" (1990)
     • was Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, before her untimely passing.

  2. Rohini K. Srihari, "Extracting Visual Information from Text: Using Captions to Label Faces in Newspaper Photographs" (1991)
     • currently, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering; Adjunct Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering; SUNY Buffalo

  3. Robin K. Hill, "Issues of Semantics in a Semantic Network Representation of Belief" (1994)
     • currently, Lecturer, Department of Computer Science; Affiliate, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies; and Affiliate, Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research, University of Wyoming.

  4. Karen Ehrlich, "Automatic Vocabulary Expansion through Narrative Context" (1994)
     • most recently, Instructor, SUNY Empire State College

  5. Adrienne Decker, "How Students Measure Up: An Assessment Instrument for Introductory Computer Science" (2007)
     • currently, Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering Education, SUNY Buffalo

  6. Albert Goldfain, "A Computational Theory of Early Mathematical Cognition" (2008)
     • Currently, Currently, Principal Data Scientist, Ecolab

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• M.S. Thesis Director
  (Department of Computer Science, SUNY Buffalo):
  • Richard Wyatt, Ph.D., "The Representation of Opaque Contexts" (1989)
    • currently, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, West Chester University (Pennsylvania).

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• M.S. Project Director
  (SUNY Buffalo):
  1. Department of Computer Science (and Engineering):

     1. Ronald L.A. Weekes, "Parsing and Generating with an ATN Grammar" (1985)

     2. Sudha Kumari Kailar (Mohan), "Natural-Language Generation from a Semantic Network" (1986)
        • Currently, Senior Vice President, Business Development, BNETAL, Manlius, NY

     3. Neal Bross, "Scheme for an Automated Theorem Prover" (1986)

     4. Margaret Schwartz, "A Comparison of LISP and Scheme" (1987)

     5. William Ansley, "A SNePS Implementation of Micro-SAM" (1989)

     6. Christopher Lusardi, "A SNePS/Cassie Implementation of Parts of the Dictionary of Cultural Literacy" (1991)

     7. Daniel Campos D., "Temporal Relations and Spanish Narrative" (1991)
        • currently, Senior Engineer, Presales Projects, Adexus (Chile).

     8. Sandra L. Peters, "The Representation of Natural Category Systems" (1992)
        • formerly, Associate Director, Academic Services, Computing & Information Technology, SUNY Buffalo

     9. Suzanne H. Selib, "An ATN Grammar for Lexical Acquisition" (1995)

     10. Brian Harris, "A Natural-Language Unix Interpreter" (1996)

     11. Mark R. Jensen, "Knowledge Representation of an Encyclopedia Article" (1996)

     12. Afshin Shafie, "Knowledge Representation in SNePS" (1996)
         • Currently, Director of Engineering, Playspan

     13. Jonathan DeAngelo, "Implementing Polysemy in a Knowledge Representation Scheme" (1996)

     14. Min(g)-Hung Liao, "Chinese to English Machine Translation Using SNePS as an Interlingua" (1998).
         • Software engineer, Dands (Taiwan)

     15. Anthony S. Petre, "Using the LKB System with SNePS" (2000).

     16. Marc K. Broklawski, "Computational Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition: A Noun Algorithm" (2001).
         • Currently, IT Program Manager, United States Patent and Trademark Office, Washington, DC.

     17. Dan Jong Kim, "A Survey of Machine Learning Techniques for Language (Vocabulary) Acquisition" (2001).
         • Currently, Associate Professor, Computer Information Systems, Unviersity of Houston-Clear Lake.

     18. Michael Schiller, "Understanding Pablo: An Exercise in Medical Natural Language Processing" (2001).

     19. Rajeev Sood, "A Case Study in Computational Understanding of Hospital Discharge Summaries" (2001).

     20. Igor Yakymenko, "Machine Learning Techniques in NLP for Word Sense Disambiguation" (2001).

     21. Justin M. Del Vecchio, "A Computational Definition of ‘Proliferate’ Using SNePS" (2002)
         • Currently, Research Scientist/Senior Software Engineer, CUBRC, Cheektowaga, NY.

     22. Scott Napieralski, "An Enhanced Noun Definition Algorithm" (2003)
         • Currently, Director, IT, IHS, Englewood, CO

     23. Matthew Sweeney, "Maximizing the Accuracy of the Retrieved Definition of ‘Estuary’ from Contextual Information" (2004).

     24. Brian D. Anger, "Understanding It All: Defining ‘Pyrrhic Victory’ from Context" (2004)

     25. Ananthakrishnan Ugrasenan Santha, "Deducing Verb Meanings from Context" (2004).

     26. Lunarso Sutanto, "Inferring the Meaning of ‘Quail’" (2004)

     27. Jeffrey Howell, "Defining ‘Bartizan’ through Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition" (2008)

     28. Peter Hoellig, "Performing Computational Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition to Define ‘Hysteria’" (2008)

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  2. Interdisciplinary Master's in Computational Linguistics:
     • Christopher L. Becker, "Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition; Contextual Information in Verb Contexts: From Analysis to Algorithm" (2005)

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• Ph.D. Dissertation Committee Member:
  1. Department of Computer Science, SUNY Buffalo:

     1. Ernesto J.M. Morgado, "Semantic Networks as Abstract Data Types" (1986)
        • Currently, SISCOG (Portugal)

     2. Michael J. Almeida, "Reasoning about the Temporal Structure of Narratives" (1987)
        • Currently, Professor of Computer Science, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Fayetteville State University.

     3. Zhigang Xiang, "Multi-Level Model-Based Diagnostic Reasoning" (1988)
        • Currently, Chairperson, Department of Computer Science, Queens College, CUNY

     4. Albert Hanyong Yuhan, "Dynamic Computation of Spatial Reference Frames in Narrative Understanding" (1991)

     5. Edward Cohen, "Reading Unconstrained Handwritten Text in Limited Domains" (1992)

     6. Syed Ali, "ANALOG: A ‘Natural Logic’ for Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Representation" (1993)
        • Currently, Visiting Assistant Professor and Assistant Scientist, Mathematical Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

     7. Joongmin Choi, "Experience-Based Learning in Deductive Reasoning Systems" (1993)
        • Currently, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hanyang University (South Korea)

     8. Juergen Haas, "Inference of Semantics from Examples: From Context-Free to Definite-Clause Grammars" (1993)
        • Currently, Senior Computational Research Scientist, Complete Genomics Inc.

     9. Deepak Kumar, "From Beliefs and Goals to Intentions and Actions: An Amalgamated Model of Acting and Inference" (1993)
        • Currently, Professor, Department of Computer Science, and Adjunct Faculty, Department of Philosophy, Bryn Mawr College

     10. Susan Haller, "Interactive Generation of Plan Descriptions and Justifications" (1994)
         • Currently, Professor, Department of Computer Science, SUNY College at Potsdam

     11. Stephen W.K. Lam, "A Computational Framework for Adaptive Reading in Document Image Understanding" (1994)

     12. Johan Lammens, "A Computational Model of Color Perception and Color Naming" (1994)
         • Currently, Program Manager, Hewlett-Packard, Barcelona (Spain)

     13. Debashish Niyogi, "A Knowledge-Based Approach to Deriving Logical Structure from Document Images" (1994)
         • Currently, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Freeslate Inc., Sunnyvale, CA

     14. Hans Chalupsky, "SIMBA: Belief Ascription by Way of Simulative Reasoning" (1995)
         • Currently, Project Leader, Loom Knowledge Representation, Reasoning & Discovery Group, USC Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, CA

     15. Henry Hexmoor, "Representing and Learning Routine Activities" (1995)
         • Currently, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Southern Illinois University

     16. Philip S. Goetz, "Attractors in Recurrent Behavior Networks" (1997).
         • Currently, Senior Bioinformatics Engineer, J. Craig Venter Institute

     17. V. Kripasundar, "Language Models for Post-Processing the Output of a Recognizer for Handwritten Text, or How to Imrove Recongition in Noisy Stuations" (1999)
         • Currently, Software Engineer, Synopsis.

     18. Alistair E. Campbell, "Ontological Mediation: Finding Translations across Dialects by Asking Questions" (1999)
         • Currently, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Hamilton College

     19. Haythem O. Ismail, "Reasoning and Acting in Time" (2001).
         • Currently, Associate Professor, Department of Engineering Mathematics and Physics, Cairo University; and Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, German University in Cairo.

     20. Debra T. Burhans, "A Question-Answering Interpretation of Resolution Refutation" (2002)
         • Currently, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Canisius College, Buffalo, NY

     21. Philip Ventura, Jr., "On the Origins of Programmers: Identifying Predictors of Success for an Objects-First CS1" (2003)
         • Currently, Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering and Computer Science, Broward College-North Campus (Florida)

     22. John F. Santore, "Identifying Perceptually Indistinguishable Objects" (2005)
         • Currently, Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Bridgewater State University (Massachusetts)

     23. Frances L. Johnson, "Dependency-Directed Reconsideration: An Anytime Algorithm for Hindsight Knowledge-Base Optimization" (2006).

     24. Robert Milewski, "Automatic Recognition of Handwritten Medical Forms for Search Engines" (2006).

     25. Amalia I. Rusu, "Exploiting the Gap in Human and Machine Abilities in Handwriting Recognition for Web Security Applications" (2007).
         • Currently, Assistant Professor of Software Engineering, School of Engineering, Fairfield University (Connecticut)

     26. Achint Oommen Thomas, "Enhancing Cyber Security through the Use of Synthetic Handwritten CAPTCHAs" (2010).
         • Currently, Scientist, Yahoo! Research

     27. Ali Patrice Seyed, "A Method for Evaluating and Standardizing Ontologies" (2012)
         • Currently, Postdoctoral Fellow, Tetherless World Constellation, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

     28. Jonathan P. Bona, "MGLAIR: A Multimiodal Cognitive Agent Architecture" (2013).

     29. Daniel R. Schlegel, "Concurrent Inference Graphs" (expected, 2014).

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  2. Department of Learning and Instruction, SUNY Buffalo:
     1. Tanya M. Christ, "Oral Language Exposure and Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition: An Exploration Across Three Kindergarten Classrooms" (2007)
        • Currently, Assistant Professor, Department of Reading and Language Arts, Oakland University

     2. Karen M. Wieland, "Toward a Unified Theory of Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition" (2008)
        • Currently, Assistant Professor, Department of Literacy Education, School of Educaiton, St. Bonaventure University

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  3. Department of Linguistics, SUNY Buffalo:

     1. Hassan Taman, "MIDS: A Modular Interactive System for Disambiguating Arabic Orthography" (1986)

     2. Douglas-Val Ziegler, "The Automatic Identification of Languages Using Linguistic Recognition Signals" (1991)
        • Currently, globalization management professional, Rochester, NY

     3. Naicong Li, "Perspective-Taking in Mandarin Discourse" (1991)
        • Currently, Senior Research and GIS Analyst, Redlands Institute

     4. Wynne Janis, "The Pronominal Reference System of ASL: Indexing" (1992)
        • Recently, Legal Assistant, Legal Services for New York City, Brooklyn Branch

     5. Ring Mei-Han Low, "The Phenomenon of the Word the in English: Discourse Functions and Distribution Patterns" (2005).
        • Recently, Lingnan University (Hong Kong)

     6. Marla Beth Perkins, "There and Back Again: Discourse and Pragmatic Strategies for Describing Spatial Locations in Narrative Fiction" (2009).

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  4. Department of Philosophy, SUNY Buffalo:

     1. David R. Koepsell, "The Ontology of Cyberspace" (1997).
        • Currently, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Delft University of Technology

     2. Gerald J. Erion, "Common Sense: An Investigation in Ontology, Epistemology, and Moral Philosophy" (2000).
        • Currently, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Department of Humanities, Medaille College, Buffalo, NY

     3. Jaime Ramos, "A Critical Study of the Language of Thought Hypothesis" (2000).

     4. Michael Happold, "Information, Computation, and the Nature of Cognition: A Critique of Computational Approaches to Understanding and Creating Minds" (2000).
        • Currently, Senior Robotics Research Scientist, Neya Systems.

     5. Chien-Chih Chi, "An Analysis of the Problem of the Irreducibility of the Mind" (2004)

     6. William D. Duncan, "Toward an Ontology of Computational Artifacts" (expected, 2013).

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  5. SUNY Binghamton, Department of Philosophy, Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Philosophy and Computers and Cognitive Science:

     • Changsin Lee, "The Acquisition of Mental Vocabulary and the Development of Social Cognition" (1998).

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• Ph.D. Dissertation Outside Reader/External Examiner:
  1. SUNY Buffalo:
     • Department of Psychology:
       1. Joyce H. Daniels, "The Role of Function in the Organization of Conceptual Information in Semantic Memory" (1987)

       2. Penny Nuwer, "Interactive vs. Independent Processing of Visual and Phonological Components of Words" (1989)

       3. Lorraine Engl, "Effects of Semantic Information and Physical Boundaries on Cognitive Maps" (1989)

     • Department of Learning and Instruction, Graduate School of Education:

       • Peter Brouwer, "An Analysis of Student Debugging Strategies" (1992)

     • Department of Linguistics:
       • David F. Houghton, "Something about ‘anything’: A Semantic Study of a, any, the, and certain" (2000).

  2. Department of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, Canada:
     1. Marcello Guarini, "Rules and Representations in the Classicism-Connectionism Debate" (1998)

     2. Leonardo Jordão "Elements of a New Constructional System" (2010)

  3. Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, Canada:
     • Christopher D. Green, "(How) Do Connectionist Networks Model Cognition?" (2004)

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• SUNY Buffalo Graduate School of Education Doctoral Qualifying Paper Committee:
  • John Fadeley, "The Role of Cognitive Learning Theory in the Development of Learner Models for Intelligent Tutoring Systems" (2004)

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• M.S. Thesis Committee Member:
  1. Department of Computer Science & Engineering:
     1. Bharat Bhushan, "Preferential Ordering of Beliefs for Default Reasoning" (2003).

     2. Ari Ilan Fogel, "On the Use of Epistemic Ordering Functions as Decision Criteria for Automated and Assisted Belief Revision in SNePS" (2011)

  2. Department of Romance Languages & Literatures
     • Andrea Perez Mukdsi, "Cognitive Approach to the Particles ‘por’ and ‘para’ in Spanish" (2009)

  3. Department of Linguistics:
     • Min(g)-Hung Liao, "Chinese to English Machine Translation Using SNePS as an Interlingua" (1998).

  4. Department of Oral Sciences, School of Dental Medicine:
     • Catherine Gogan, D.D.S., "Intellectual Development of Dental Students as Evaluated by the Measure of Epistemological Reflection" (1995).

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• M.A. Committee Member:
  1. Interdisciplinary Social Sciences/Cognitive Science:
     • Eugene Lunken (1992)

  2. Department of Philosophy:
     • Anthony Petro (1993)

• Department of Philosophy Graduate Advisory Committee Member:
  1. Ashutosh Kalsi (1996–1998)
  2. Aileen T. Paraguya (1996–1998)

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• Courses Taught
  (with links to most recent version; "" symbol indicates website that is still being regularly updated):

  1. SUNY Buffalo:

     • Undergraduate:
       1. CSE 111: Great Ideas in Computer Science I
       2. CS 112: Great Ideas in Computer Science II
       3. CS 113: Introduction to Computer Science I
       4. CS 114: Introduction to Computer Science II
       5. CSE 191: Introduction to Discrete Mathematics I/Discrete Structures
       6. CSE 472: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence/Knowledge-Based AI
       7. CSE 451: Program Development
       8. CSE 463: Introduction to Knowledge Representation & Reasoning
       9. CSE/PHI 484: Philosophy of Computer Science
       10. CS 496: Introduction to the Theory of Computation

     • Graduate:
       1. CSE 501: Graduate Studies in Computer Science
       2. CSE 572: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence/Knowledge-Based AI
       3. CSE/LIN/PHI/PSY 575, APY 526: Introduction to Cognitive Science
       4. CSE/PHI 584: Philosophy of Computer Science (CSE & PHI)
       5. CS 642: Techniques of AI: Logic and AI
       6. CSE 642: Techniques of AI: Computational Theories of Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition
       7. CSE/LIN 675: Natural Language Understanding/Computational Linguistics
       8. CSE 563: Introduction to Knowledge Representation & Reasoning
       9. CSE 663: Advanced Knowledge Representation & Reasoning
       10. CSE 676: Knowledge Representation

     • Graduate Seminars
       (in chronological order):
       1. CS 705: Belief Systems in AI
       2. CS 701: Situation Semantics
       3. CS 705: Machine Translation
       4. CS 703: Natural-Language Competence
       5. CS 701: Cognitive Science Research: Cognitive & Computer Systems for Understanding Narrative Text
       6. CS 703: Lakoff's Theory of Categories and the Mind
       7. CS 718: Semantics, Computation, and Cognition
       8. CS 703: Natural-Language Understanding & Generation
       9. CS 737: Medical Natural-Language Processing
       10. CSE 727: Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition
       11. CSE 719: Computational Theories of Consciousness

     • First International Summer Institute in Cognitive Science:
       1. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
       2. Introduction to Philosophy for Cognitive Science

  2. SUNY Fredonia:

     • Department of Philosophy (undergraduate):
       1. Introduction to Philosophy
       2. Introduction to Deductive Logic
       3. Intermediate Deductive Logic
       4. Greek Philosophy
       5. Analytic Philosophy Since 1900
       6. Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
       7. Philosophy of Language
       8. Philosophy of Mind
       9. Mathematical Logic

     • Department of Mathematics (undergraduate):
       • Intermediate Computer Programming I

     • General-Liberal Education Program (undergraduate):
       • Effective Writing and Analytical Skills

     • Graduate:
       • Philosophy of Language

     • Summer Faculty Development Workshops in Teaching Informal Logic

  3. Indiana University:

     • Department of Philosophy (undergraduate):
       1. Introduction to Logic
       2. Symbolic Logic

     • Department of Mathematics (undergraudate):
       • Analytic Geometry and Calculus I

  4. Walden School (grades 7–12):
     Secondary School Mathematics Curriculum Improvement Study, Algebra, Geometry, Analytic Geometry, Trigonometry

  5. Inwood Junior High School 52M:
     regular, advanced, and non-English-speaking 7th-grade mathematics

SERVICE:

1. Professional:
   1. AskPhilosophers.org panelist (2008–present)

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   2. Offices and Committee Memberships:
      1. Society for Machines and Mentality
         1. Immediate Past President (1993–1995)
         2. Elected first President (1991–1993)

      2. American Philosophical Association:
         1. Committee on Computer Use in Philosophy (1989–1992, 1994–1997)
            1. Subcommittee on Computing and Philosophical Research (1994–1997)
            2. Subcommittee on Computing and Professional Cooperation of Philosophers (1994–1997)
            3. Subcommittee on Computer Technology and Ethics (1989–1992)

         2. Delphi Research Panel on Critical Thinking (1988–1989)

         3. Committee on Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy (1981–1988)

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   3. Editorial:
      1. Member, Editorial Board:
         1. Minds and Machines: Journal for Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science (1998–present)

         2. Noûs (quarterly journal of philosophy published by John Wiley & Sons Inc.; 1990–present)

         3. Studies in Cognitive Systems (book series published by Springer; 1987–present)

         4. Machine Translation (formerly, Computers and Translation; Springer; 1987–1998)

         5. Computational Linguistics (1987–1989)

      2. Minds and Machines: Journal for Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer)
         1. Review Editor (1994–1998)
         2. Book Review Editor (1990–1994)

      3. Contributing Editor, American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy (1986–1988)

      4. Co-Editor, American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy (1983–1986)

      5. Assistant to the Editor, Noûs (1972–1975)

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      6. Reviewer/referee for:
         1. Journals:
            • Abacus: The Magazine for the Computer Professional
            • Artificial Intelligence: An International Journal
            • Australasian Journal of Philosophy
            • Behavioral and Brain Sciences
            • Cognitive Science: A Multidisciplinary Journal
            • Communications of the ACM
            • Computational Linguistics
            • Foundations of Science
            • Grazer Philosophische Studien
            • International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools
            • Journal of Applied Logic
            • Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence
            • Journal of Philosophical Logic
            • Journal of Philosophical Research
            • Journal of Philosophy
            • Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language Studies
            • Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
            • Minds and Machines: Journal for Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science
            • The Monist
            • Noûs
            • Open Philosophy
            • Philosophia Mathematica
            • Philosophical Quarterly
            • Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
            • Philosophy & Technology
            • Pragmatics & Cognition
            • Reading Research Quarterly
            • Synthese: An International Journal for Epistemology, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science
            • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
            • Teaching Philosophy
            • Theoretical Computer Science
            • Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy

         2. Publishers:
            
            
            • Bloomsbury Publishing
              
            • Cambridge University Press
            • Chapman & Hall/CRC Press
            • Harvard University Press
            • John Wiley & Sons
            • Kluwer (now Springer)
            • Little, Brown and Co.
            • Macmillan
            • McGraw-Hill
            • MIT Press
            • Oxford University Press
            • Prentice Hall
            • Princeton University Press
            • Routledge
            • University of Toronto Press
            • Wadsworth
            • Wiley-Blackwell

         3. Other:
            • Canada Council for the Arts Killam Research Fellowships
            • Israel Science Foundation
            • National Science Foundation
            • National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

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      7. Miscellaneous:
         1. Editor, First International Summer Institute of Cognitive Science Handbook (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Center for Cognitive Science, 1994)

         2. Author and editor, Association for Computational Linguistics Conference Local-Arrangements Manual (1988)

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   4. Conferences:

      1. Program Committee, HaPoC 2013: 2nd International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Computing 2013 (2012–2013)

      2. Referee, Computability in Europe 2010 (CiE2010) (2010)

      3. Referee, 13th–20th, 22nd–23rd, 25th–27th, 29th–30th, & 32nd Annual Conference, Cognitive Science Society (1991–1998, 2000–2001, 2003–2005, 2007–2008, 2010–2011)

      4. Referee, European Computing and Philosophy Conference (ECAP-07) (2007)

      5. Referee, 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-05) (2005)

      6. Referee, European Cognitive Science Conference (EuroCogSci03) (2003)

      7. Session chair, Recent Thoughts about the Liar, SUNY Buffalo Department of Philosophy (2002)

      8. Chair, Colloquium on Philosophy of Mind, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division (New York, 1995)

      9. Referee, 7th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA-95) (1995)

      10. Chair, Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Rationality, American Philosophical Association Central Division (Chicago, 1993)

      11. Program Committee, Student Session, 29th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (University of California at Berkeley, 1991)

      12. Referee, Society for Philosophy and Psychology (1991)

      13. Local Arrangements Chair, 26th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (SUNY Buffalo, 1988)

      14. Chair, Colloquium on Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy, American Philosophical Association Central Division (Chicago, 1987)

      15. Chair, Second Session on Cognitive Modelling and Education, 5th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-86) (Philadelphia, 1986)

      16. Chair, Colloquium on Philosophy of Mind/Mental Images, American Philosophical Association Western Division (Columbus, OH; 1982)

      17. Chair, Session on the Nature of Natures, Tri-State Philosophical Association (1982)

      18. Organizer, chair, and participant: Panel discussion on Teaching Informal Logic, Tri-State Philosophical Association (1979)
          See Informal Logic Newsletter 2 (November 1979): 7–9

   5. Other:
      • Author of questions for Law School Admissions Test (LSAT)

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2. At SUNY Buffalo:

   1. Department of Computer Science [and Engineering]:

      1. Associate Director, SNePS Research Group (1984–present)

      2. Policy Committee (1984–2012)

      3. Graduate Affairs/Graduate Studies Committee (1984–1985, 1987–1988, 1992–1998, 2002–2003, 2006–2011)

      4. Graduate Faculty (1985–2012)

      5. Personnel Committee (1988–2012)

      6. Teaching Quality Committee (1997–2005, 2007–2011)
         • Chair (1997–1998, 1999–2005)

      7. Director of Graduate Studies (1993–1996, 2006–2007)

      8. Executive Committee (1988–1991, 1993–1996, 2006–2007)

      9. Undergraduate Studies/Undergraduate Affairs Committee (1986–1987, 1988–1991, 2003–2005)
         • Chair, Ad Hoc Subcommittee to review syllabus for CS 191-192 (Introduction to Discrete Mathematics) (1995)

      10. Grievance Committee (2002–2005)

      11. Web and Publications Committee (2001–2002, 2003–2005)

      12. Chair, Lecturer Search Committee (2000)

      13. Facilities Committee (1999–2001)

      14. Lecturer Recruiting Committee (1998)

      15. Graduate Students Employees Union campus advisory committee (1994–1998)

      16. Department representative/alternate, Faculty of Natural Sciences & Mathematics Undergraduate Grievance Pool (1987–1991, 1992–1998)

      17. Department representative/alternate, Faculty of Natural Sciences & Mathematics Graduate Grievance Pool (1987–1991, 1992–1998)

      18. Educational Technology Committee (1997)

      19. Recruiting Committee (1985–1986, 1990–1991, 1996–1997)

      20. Chair, Colloquium Committee (1985–1986, 1992–1993)

      21. CISE Institutional Infrastructure Committee (1991)

      22. Director of Undergraduate Studies (1988–1991)

      23. Department Brochures Committee (1986–1991)

      24. Chair, Department of Computer Science Chairperson Search Committee (1989–1990)

      25. RDF Expenditures Committee (1988–1990)

      26. OPAS Committee (1987–1988)

      27. Graduate Admissions Committee (1984–1985, 1987–1988)

      28. Project Director, TI Scheme Instructional Beta Test Program (1985–1987)

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   2. Center for Cognitive Science:
      1. Colloquium Chair (Fall 2006–Spring 2008)

      2. Chair, Director Search Committee (2008)

      3. Departmental Representative, Center for Cognitive Science Advisory Committee (1995–1998, 1999–2000, 2001–2005)

      4. Ph.D.-Tracks Committee (1999‐2005)

      5. Undergraduate Studies Committee (1999–2005)

      6. Member, ad hoc search committee for Director (2004)

      7. Co-organizer, conference on The Metaphysics of Consciousness (1999)

      8. Acting Director (1996–1997)

      9. Planning Committee, First International Summer Institute in Cognitive Science (1993–1994)

      10. Organizing Committee, CCS Conference on Cognition and Representation (1991–1992)

      11. Organizing Committee, CCS Workshop, "Where Does I Come From?" (1990)

      12. Interim Director (1989–1990)

      13. Co-Director, Graduate Group in Cognitive Science (1986–1990)

      14. Coordinator, Planning Committee, Graduate Research Initiative in Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences (1987–1989)

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   3. Department of Linguistics:
      • External member, Faculty Search Committee (2002, 2005)

   4. Member, Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education Standing Committee for Academic Integrity (2005)

   5. College of Arts & Sciences:
      1. Admissions Committee, MA Specialization in Computational Linguistics (2001–2012)

      2. Policy Committee (1999–2001)
         1. Committee for Centers and Institutes (2000–2001)

         2. Committee on Appointment, Promotion, and Tenure (appointed, 2000; ineligible to serve)

      3. Writing Task Force (1999–2000)

   6. Chair, ad hoc committee to explore a master's degree in information technology (2000)

   7. Faculty Senate Committee on Academic Planning (1996–1998)

   8. Graduate School:
      1. Excellence in Teaching Award Committee (2005)

      2. Committee on Transfer Credits (1997)

      3. Executive Committee (1994–1996)

      4. Fellowship Committee (1995)

   9. Faculty Mentor, Undergraduate Honors Program (1988–2012)

   10. Faculty of Natural Science & Mathematics:
       1. Divisional Committee (1993–1996)

       2. Undergraduate Directors Committee (1988–1991)

   11. School of Engineering & Applied Sciences:
       1. Graduate Academic Programs Committee (2006–2007)

       2. Advisor, BEAM program for high-school students (2003)

   12. Organizing Committee, University at Buffalo Symposium in Honor of Alonzo Church (1990)

   13. Faculty member, Program for Student Success Training: Workshop on Critical Reasoning (1985)

   14. Participant, Faculty Development Program (1984)

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3. At SUNY Fredonia:

   • Academic Convocation Committee (1980–1984)

   • Graduate Faculty (1979–1984)

   • Faculty member, General-Liberal Education Program (1978–1984);

   • Faculty Council (1977–1980; 1981–1983)
     • Foreign Language and Culture Committee (1978)

   • General College Program Subcommittee (1982)

   • Chair, General-Liberal Education Program Subcommittee (1981–1982)

   • Coordinator, Analytical Skills Program (1979–1982)

   • Faculty member, Academic Advising Center (1979–1981)

   • Chair, General College Program Revision Subcommittee (1980)

   • Co–chair, Basic Skills Subcommittee (1980)

   • College representative, Association of American Colleges and Universities Workshop on General Education (Boston, 1980)

   • Faculty member, Program in Language and Linguistics (1976–1980)

   • Departmental representative, Chairpersons' Retreat (1979)

   • College representative, Conference on Logic and Liberal Learning (Carnegie-Mellon University, 1979)

   • Committee on Creative and Scholarly Research (1978–1979)

   • College representative to Symposium on Informal Logic (University of Windsor, 1978)

   • Departmental representative to Peer Advisors (1977–1978)

   • Advisor, student Philosophical Society (1976–1978)

   • Panel moderator, Purposes of Education, Moral Education, Symposium on Philosophy of Education (1977)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (1983–present)
American Philosophical Association (1971–present)
Association for Computational Linguistics (1984–present)
Association for Computing Machinery (1983–present)
Cognitive Science Society (1983–present)

COMMUNITY SERVICE:

1. A Brief History of 59 Lucy Lane, talk given to Jamestown A.M. Rotary Club (5 February 2020)

2. Member, Board of Managers, Bryant Parish Condominium, Buffalo, NY (2015–2019)
   • President (2017–2019)

3. Parents' Steering Committee, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY (2014–2018)

4. Nichols School, Buffalo, NY:
   • Education Committee (2012–2013)
   • Parent Advisory Group (to Head-of-School Search Committee) (2012)

5. Judge, Lewiston (NY) Culinary Arts Festival (2006).

6. Chair, ad hoc committee to revise the bylaws of the Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center (2006)
   • Appointed by board president Lucie Arnaz Luckinbill

7. Restoration of Lucille Ball's childhood home, Celoron, NY (2005–2006)

8. Judge, University News Service "Season's Eatings" cooking contest (2003)

9. Bill Rapaport's Buffalo Restaurant Guide (1988–2015)
   • Originally created for ACL-88.

10. Appointed to Parents' Council, SUNY College of Technology at Alfred (1997–1998)

11. "Understanding Understanding: Cognitive Science and Narrative", presentation to Western New York Mensa society (1991)

12. Named to "Buffalo Ambassadors", Greater Buffalo Convention and Visitors Bureau, for bringing ACL-88 to Buffalo.

IN THE MEDIA:

1. I appear on the TCM podcast "The Plot Thickens: Lucy" which is about Lucille Ball’s childhood in Jamestown, NY. My wife, Mary, and I own Lucy’s childhood home in nearby Celoron, NY, which Mary restored to what it might have looked like in the 1920s, when Lucy lived there.

2. "A Philosophy of Computer Science Textbook", in Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog.

3. Bisco, Jim (2012), "Bill Rapaport's Online Restaurant Guide Reaches a Milestone", UB Reporter (12 April).

4. Radio interview about my "How to Study" website, WRHU, 88.7 FM, Hofstra University (12/11/09), on morning drive-time show with Christian Heimall.

5. Phillips, Dennis (2009), "Lucy Celebration Held at Star's Childhood Home", Jamestown Post-Journal (August 11): C1.

6. Smith, Hal (2007), "A Weekend with Lucy and Ricky", Chicago Tribune (6 May).

7. Seychew, Christa Glennie (2007), "The Rapaport Report", Buffalo Rising Magazine #6 (April): 44.

8. "Rapaports Donate to Lucy-Desi Center", The Scene, Jamestown Post-Journal (April 2006): 11.

9. "Two Gifts Presented to Lucy-Desi Center", Buffalo News (11 April 2006): B-3.

10. "Desilu Playhouse Enhances Offerings: Indianapolis Company Installs New Sound System in Radio Exhibit", Jamestown Post-Journal (30 March 2006): C-3.

11. "Luci [sic]-Desi Center Receives Donations", Jamestown Post-Journal (20 March 2006): B-4.

12. "2 ‘I Love Lucy’ Costumes Donated to Ball-Arnaz Center", Buffalo News (14~March 2006): B-3.

13. "Lucille Ball's First Hollywood Contract Finds Way into Jamestown Museum", Jamestown Post-Journal (1 February 2006): C-1.

14. Keefer, Joel (2006, 1 February), "Patrons of Lucy Center Donate Her First Contract", Buffalo News: B-3.

15. "Lucy-Desi Acquisition Society Makes First Purchase", Jamestown Post-Journal (6 November 2005): B-1.

16. Plyler, Robert W. (2005, 5 November), "End of Season Review", Jamestown Post-Journal: C-7.

17. "Word Clues: Helping Kids Learn to Read", Medstar Source (20 October 2005):
    1. WSPA-TV NewsChannel 7 (Spartanburg, SC)
    2. WHOI-TV Channel 19 (Peoria, IL)

18. Plyler, Robert W. (2005, 15 October), "A New City Landmark: Rapaport Center Adds to Jamestown's Lucille Ball Legacy", Jamestown Post-Journal: C-7.

19. Kent, Loren (2005, 15 October), "Playhouse Premier: Lucie Arnaz on Hand as Center Opens" Jamestown Post-Journal: A1, A3.

20. Kent, Loren (2005, 5 August), "Journey Back in Time: Lucy's Kitchen, Artifacts Showcased at Rapaport Center", Jamestown Post-Journal: A1, A3.

21. Kent, Loren (2005, 15 June), "‘I Love Lucy’ Studio Sets Find New Home Downtown", Jamestown Post-Journal: A1, A3.

22. "Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down", editorial, Jamestown Post-Journal (4 June 2005): A-4.
    • This was a "thumbs up comment on the article below.

23. Kent, Loren (2005, 30 May), "Lucy-Desi Receives $500K from Buffalo Couple", Jamestown Post-Journal: A1, A3.

24. Kent, Loren (2005, 28 May), "Lucy's Family Returns to Childhood Home", Jamestown Post-Journal: A-1.

25. "Preserving Lucy's House: Restoration Plan for Childhood Home of Lucille Ball Brings Smiles to WNY" (editorial), Buffalo News (17 March 2005).

26. Sommer, Mark (2005, 11 March), "Fans Buy, Plan to Restore Ball's Childhood Home", Buffalo News: D-2.

27. "Lucy's Childhood Home May Open to Public", Jamestown (NY) Post-Journal (9 March 2005): C1.

28. Cochrane, Mary (2005, 3 February), "Learning New Words by Searching for Clues", UB Reporter 36(20).

29. "Marginalia", The Chronicle of Higher Education (28 May 1999).

30. Quick, Rebecca (1998), "What's Happening? City Guides Can Give You the Lowdown" Wall Street Journal (9 July): B6; reprinted as "To find your way, look to the 'Net" in the Abilene (TX) Reporter-News (16 July 1998).

31. TV interview, STN (Science and Technology Network) (1 Nov 1996)

32. Port, Otis (1994, 29 August), "‘Cassie’ Has Her Thinking Cap On", Developments to Watch, N. Gross (ed.), Business Week: 82.

33. Vogel, Mike (1994, 20 July), "Computer Taught to Think in English", The Buffalo News: A1, A8.

34. TV interview, Channel 4 (Buffalo) news (6:00 P.M.) (26 May 1994)

35. "UB scientist heads international society", The Buffalo News (7 July 1991).

36. Lovett, K. (1987, 13 July), "UB research efforts aim at artificial intelligence", Business First: The Business Newspaper of Buffalo and Western New York 3(38): 24.

37. Radio interviews, "Weekend at Your Service: Home Computers", WEBR (Buffalo), 2/84, 5/84, 8/87

38. Radio interview, "News in Perspective: Artificial Intelligence", WCVF (Fredonia), 1983

ON THE WEB:

1. Homepage

2. "Bill Rapaport's Interactive Buffalo Restaurant Guide" (1988–present)

3. "A (Partial) Bibliography (in Chronological Order) of Medical Natural-Language Processing of Free Text"

4. "Academic Family Tree of Hector-Neri Castañeda"

5. "How to Study"

6. "How to Write"

7. "How I Grade"

8. "Advice for (New) TAs" [PowerPoint]

9. "William Perry's Scheme of Intellectual and Ethical Development"

10. "Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition"

11. "Good Things about Buffalo and Western New York"

12. "A History of the Sentence ‘Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo’"
    • See also:
      "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo", Wikipedia

13. Sequence A093788, On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (2004)
    • See also Roberts, Siobhan (2023), "What Number Comes Next? The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences Knows", New York Times (21 May)

14. "On the Importance of Castañeda" (2015), contribution to Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog.

15. Comment on R.J. Lipton, "Take Wing" (16 May 2022), Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP.

16. "59 Lucy Lane — Lucille Ball's Childhood Home: An Illustrated History and a Visit" (28 July 2023)