Craig DeLancey
Areas of specializationAreas of competency
- Philosophy of Mind
- Cognitive Science
Academic Employment
- Environmental Ethics
- Metaphysics
- Philosophy of Language
- Logic
Education
- (9/2002 - present) Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, State University of New York at Oswego.
Publications
- Joint Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, Program of Cognitive Science, Indiana University, 1999.
- M.S., Department of Computer Science, Indiana University, 1999.
- Double B.A., Department of Anthropology, Department of English, University of Rochester, 1987.
Books:Articles:
- (2002) Passionate Engines: What Emotions Reveal about Mind and Artificial Intelligence. New York: Oxford University Press. [Blind peer reviewed.]
Reviews:
- (Forthcoming) "On Emotions and the Explanation of Behavior," with Adam Kovach. Nous. [Blind peer reviewed.]
- (Forthcoming) "Teleofunctions and oncomice." Environmental Ethics. [Blind peer reviewed.]
- (Forthcoming) "Architecture can Save the World: Building and Environmental Ethics." Philosophical Forum. [Blind peer reviewed.]
- (1998) "Real Emotions." Philosophical Psychology, 11: 4. [Blind peer reviewed.]
- (1997) "Emotion and the Computational Theory of Mind." In Two Sciences of Mind: Readings in Cognitive Science and Consciousness, Seán Ó'Nuallaïn (ed.). Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins.
- (1996) "Emotion and the Function of Consciousness." Journal of Consciousness Studies, 3, No.5-6. [Blind peer reviewed.]
Panels and presentations (This list does not include internal departmental colloquia.)
- (2000) "Affect programs, intentionality, and consciousness." Commentary on Edmund Rolls's The brain and emotion. Behavioral and brain sciences, 23: 2.
- (1997) Review of William Lycan's Consciousness and Experience. Philosophical Psychology, 10:2.
Grants, fellowships, and awards
- (Forthcoming/2004) Commentary on "Understanding the Emotions: Affect Programs and Higher Cognitive Processes," by Michael Sontag. American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting. Chicago. April 2004.
- (Forthcoming/2004) "Environmentalism and Conflicting Community Interests: The Lessons of Abolition in Early America." Fourteenth North American Interdisciplinary Conference on Environment and Community. Saratoga Springs, February 2004.
- (2003) "Emotion, Autonomy, and AI." Interactivist Summer Institute 2003, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 2003.
- (2003) "Systematic Biocentric Axiology: Environmental Ethics as a Foundation for Transhuman Ethics." Transvision 2003. Yale University, June 2003.
- (2002) "Film and emotion." Presentation to the Society for the Philosophical Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting.
- (2001) "On Emotions and the Explanation of Behavior." Symposium paper, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting. Co-authored with Adam Kovach.
- (2000) Commentary on Robert Solomon's "Rationality and Emotion." American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking.
- (2000) "Four puzzles for affective consciousness." Toward a Science of Consciousness, "Tucson 2000."
- (1998) Faculty panelist, University of Arizona Consciousness Studies Summer Institute on Emotion, Culture and Consciousness.
- (1998) Visiting faculty member, University of Arizona On-Line Conference on The Interface of Emotion, Consciousness, and Neuroscience.
- (1997) "Sought Emotions." American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting.
- (1996) "Akrasia, Emotion, and Structured Rationality." Weakness of the Will; Annual Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry.
- (1996) "Emotion and the Function of Consciousness." Toward a Science of Consciousness, "Tucson II." (Poster presentation.)
- (1994) "A Neuropsychological Critique of Strict Identity in the Theory of Emotions as Judgments of Value." First International Summer Institute in Cognitive Science. SUNY Buffalo.
Special workshops attended
- (2003) Faculty Enhancement Grant, SUNY Oswego.
- (1997-99) National Science Foundation Graduate Research Traineeship.
- (1996) Indiana University Cognitive Science Summer Research Fellow.
- (1995-96) Indiana University Nelson Fellow.
- (1994) Indiana University Cognitive Science Summer Research Award.
- (1994) Indiana University Department of Philosophy Graduate Award for Academic Excellence.
- (1986) National Endowment in the Humanities Younger Scholar Research Grant.
Teaching experience
- (1998) National Science Foundation Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop ("Telluride 1998"). Telluride, Colorado.
- (1993) Mitteleuropaeisches Kulturinstitut's Bolzano Summer School in Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence. Bolzano, Italy.
My teaching experience now stretches over ten years. Courses developed and taught include:Academic service activities
- Axiomatic First Order Logic
- Critical Thinking
- Elementary Ethics
- Elementary Logic
- Environmental Ethics
- Introduction to Epistemology
- Introduction to Philosophy
- Philosophy of Language
- Philosophy of Mind
Referee work
- (2002-03) SUNY Oswego: member of departmental or program committees for Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and Linguistics. Co-faculty-advisor to undergraduate cognitive science club. Advisor to all philosophy and psychology joint majors (eighteen students in 2003).
- (1993-2000) Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of The Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy.
- (1994-95) Graduate Student Representative to the Faculty Appointment and Hiring Committees.
- (1993) Co-Founder of The Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy.
- (1992-93) President of the Graduate Association of Students Philosophers at Indiana University.
- (1991-92) Graduate Student Representative to the Graduate Student Admissions Committee, Indiana University.
- (1993, 1994) Organized annual graduate student conferences in philosophy.
Professional organizations membership
- (2002, 2003) Philosophical Psychology.
- (2002) Oxford University Press.
- (2000) Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
- (1995) Society for Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behavior, 10th Biennial Conference.
Contact
- Associate, Behavioral and brain sciences
- American Philosophical Association
- Member, Great Lakes Research Consortium
email (office and home):
delancey@oswego.edu
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