 Brian Cantwell-SmithBrian Cantwell Smith is professor of cognitive science and computer science,
adjunct professor of philosophy, and assistant director of the cognitive science
program, at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Before moving to Indiana
in 1996 he was principal scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
and adjunct professor of philosophy at Stanford University. He was a founder of
the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University (CSLI)
, a founder and first President of Computer Professionals for Social
Responsibility (CPSR) , and is President (1998-99) of the Society for Philosophy
and Psychology (SPP) . Smith received his BS , MS and PhD degrees from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1974, 1978, 1982). He is on the editorial
board of several journals in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and
philosophy. Smith's research focuses on the foundations and philosophy of
computing, both in the practice and theory of computer science, and in the use
of computational metaphors in other fields -- such as philosophy, cognitive
science, physics, and art. His doctoral dissertation introduced the notion of
computational reflection in programming languages -- an area of active ongoing
research in computer science. Past publications have addressed questions in
computational reflection, meta-level architecture, programming languages, and
knowledge representation. Over the last decade, his work has focused on
fundamental issues in the foundations of epistemology, ontology, and
metaphysics.
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