William J. Rapaport

Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics, Knowledge Representation, Logic, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Critical Thinking, Cognitive Development, Philosophy of Computer Science.

I am currently writing a textbook on the philosophy of computer science,  and a paper on the relation of computing to the world.

• Rapaport, William J. & Kibby, Michael W. (2014) "Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition: From Algorithm to Curriculum," in Adriano Palma (ed.), Castaneda and his Guises: Essays on the Work of Hector-Neri Castaneda (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter) 107-50.
  
  
• Rapaport, William J. (2013) "Meinongian Semantics and Artificial Intelligence," in special issue (Meinong Strikes Agaiin: Return to Impossible Objects 100 Years Later, ed. Mari and Paoletti) of Journal of Philosophical Studies 25 (December) 25-52. 
  
  
• 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 et al, eds., Singularity Hypotheses: A Scientiific and Philosophical Assessment (Berlin: Springer) 59-60.
  
  
• 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.

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