Overview
Background
I am Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. I was educated at the University of Edinburgh, Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, the University of California at Berkeley (as a Fulbright-Hays Scholar), and the University of Cambridge (as an Andrew Carnegie Scholar). I have held various visiting scholarships/fellowships/professorships, including at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, Georgetown University, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. In 2000 Jack Copeland and I founded the online Turing Archive for the History of Computing, which has received the Encyclopedia Britannica Internet Guide Award for Excellence and the Scientific American Sci/Tech Award. We received a Marsden Grant from the Royal Society of New Zealand for research into the philosophical foundations of cognitive and computer science.
Availability
- Professor Diane Proudfoot is:
- Available for supervision
Research interests
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philosophy and history of Artificial Intelligence, Turing, Wittgenstein, philosophy of cognitive science, philosophy of language, and the philosophy and psychology of religion
My current research is in the philosophy and history of Artificial Intelligence, Turing, Wittgenstein, philosophy of cognitive science, philosophy of language, and the philosophy and psychology of religion. I am co-director of the Turing Archive for the History of Computing (http://www.alanturing.net/index.htm), the largest web collection of digital facsimiles of original documents by Turing and other pioneers of computing. Most recently I have been working on Turing and the philosophy of Artificial Intelligence.
Works
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2019
Book Chapter
Turing and the first electronic brains: What the papers said
Proudfoot, Diane and Copeland, Jack (2019). Turing and the first electronic brains: What the papers said. The Routledge Handbook of the Computational Mind. (pp. 23-37) edited by Mark Sprevak and Matteo Colombo. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
2016
Journal Article
Time to reinspect the foundations?: questioning if computer science is outgrowing its traditional foundations
Copeland, Jack, Dresner, Eli, Proudfoot, Diane and Shagrir, Oron (2016). Time to reinspect the foundations?: questioning if computer science is outgrowing its traditional foundations. Communications- ACM, 59 (11), 34-36. doi: 10.1145/2908733
2016
Journal Article
Diane Proudfoot on “What does philosophy of religion offer to the modern university?”
Proudfoot, Diane (2016). Diane Proudfoot on “What does philosophy of religion offer to the modern university?”. Philosophy of Religion
2016
Journal Article
Heavenly computation: digital metaphysics and the new theology
Proudfoot, Diane (2016). Heavenly computation: digital metaphysics and the new theology. Metaphilosophy, 47 (1), 147-153. doi: 10.1111/meta.12171
2015
Journal Article
The Predictive Mind, by Jakob Hohwy
Proudfoot, Diane (2015). The Predictive Mind, by Jakob Hohwy. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 93 (1), 207-208. doi: 10.1080/00048402.2014.973892
2015
Journal Article
Mocking AI Panic
Proudfoot, Diane (2015). Mocking AI Panic. IEEE Spectrum, 52 (7), 46-47.
2015
Journal Article
What Turing himself said about the imitation game
Proudfoot, Diane (2015). What Turing himself said about the imitation game. IEEE Spectrum, 52 (7), 42-47. doi: 10.1109/MSPEC.2015.7131694
2014
Journal Article
Anthropomorphism: Opportunities and Challenges in Human–Robot Interaction
Złotowski, Jakub, Proudfoot, Diane, Yogeeswaran, Kumar and Bartneck, Christoph (2014). Anthropomorphism: Opportunities and Challenges in Human–Robot Interaction. International Journal of Social Robotics, 7 (3), 347-360. doi: 10.1007/s12369-014-0267-6
2014
Other Outputs
What is Philosophy of Religion?
Proudfoot, Diane (2014, 08 27). What is Philosophy of Religion? Philosophy of Religion
2014
Journal Article
Turing's three senses of “emotional”
Proudfoot, Diane (2014). Turing's three senses of “emotional”. International Journal of Synthetic Emotions, 5 (2), 7-20. doi: 10.4018/ijse.2014070102
2013
Journal Article
Rethinking Turing's test
Proudfoot, Diane (2013). Rethinking Turing's test. Journal of Philosophy, 110 (7), 391-411.
2013
Book Chapter
Can a robot smile? Wittgenstein on facial expression
Proudfoot, Diane (2013). Can a robot smile? Wittgenstein on facial expression. A Wittgensteinian Perspective on the Use of Conceptual Analysis in Psychology. (pp. 172-194) edited by Timothy P. Racine and Kathleen L. Slaney. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9781137384287
2013
Conference Publication
More human than human: does the uncanny curve really matter?
Złotowski, Jakub, Proudfoot, Diane and Bartneck, Christoph (2013). More human than human: does the uncanny curve really matter?. HRI2013 Workshop on Design of Humanlikeness in HRI from uncanny valley to minimal design (in conjunction with 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI2013), Tokyo, Japan, 3 March, 2013. Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan: Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories.
2012
Book Chapter
Turing and the Computer
Copeland, B. Jack and Proudfoot, Diane (2012). Turing and the Computer. Alan Turing's Electronic Brain: The Struggle to Build the ACE, the World's Fastest Computer. (pp. 107-148) edited by B. Jack Copeland.. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
2012
Book Chapter
Software immortals: science or faith?
Proudfoot, Diane (2012). Software immortals: science or faith?. Singularity Hypotheses: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment. (pp. 367-389) edited by Amnon H. Eden, James H. Moor, Johnny H. Søraker and Eric Steinhart. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-32560-1_18
2012
Book Chapter
Artificial intelligence
Proudfoot, Diane and Copeland, B. Jack (2012). Artificial intelligence. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Cognitive Science. (pp. 147-182) edited by Eric Margolis, Richard Samuels and Stephen P. Stich. New York: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195309799.013.0007
2011
Journal Article
Anthropomorphism and AI: Turing's much misunderstood imitation game
Proudfoot, Diane (2011). Anthropomorphism and AI: Turing's much misunderstood imitation game. Artificial Intelligence, 175 (5-6), 950-957. doi: 10.1016/j.artint.2011.01.006
2011
Journal Article
Alan Turing: father of the modern computer
Copeland, B. Jack and Proudfoot, Diane (2011). Alan Turing: father of the modern computer. The Rutherford Journal, 4 (1).
2010
Journal Article
Deviant encodings and Turing's analysis of computability
Copeland, B. Jack and Proudfoot, Diane (2010). Deviant encodings and Turing's analysis of computability. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 41 (3), 247-252. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2010.07.010
2009
Journal Article
Meaning and mind: Wittgenstein's relevance for the ‘Does Language Shape Thought?’ debate
Proudfoot, Diane (2009). Meaning and mind: Wittgenstein's relevance for the ‘Does Language Shape Thought?’ debate. New Ideas in Psychology, 27 (2), 163-183. doi: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2008.04.012
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