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.
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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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2009
Book Chapter
Turing's test: a philosophical and historical guide
Copeland, Jack and Proudfoot, Diane (2009). Turing's test: a philosophical and historical guide. Parsing the Turing Test: Philosophical and Methodological Issues in the Quest for the Thinking Computer. (pp. 119-138) edited by Robert Epstein, Gary Roberts and Grace Beber. Berlin, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6710-5_9
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