Larry S. Hauser
Areas of Research & Specialization: Philosophy
of Mind,
Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence
Areas of Teaching Competence: Applied Ethics,
Logic, Philosophy
of Science, History of Philosophy
contributions to the
discipline
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Curriculum
Vitae
Revised April 10, 2012
B. A., Psychology,
Michigan State
University,
1973.
M. A., Philosophy, Michigan State
University, 1979.
Ph.D., Philosophy,
Michigan State University,
1993.
Dissertation: Searle's
Chinese
Box: The Chinese Room Argument and Artificial
Intelligence.
Director: Professor Herbert Hendry.
Defended: March 11, 1993.
Publications
- “Zombies,
Blade
Runner, and the Mind-Body Problem" in R. Green
and K. S.
Mohammed (eds.), The Undead and Philosophy: Chicken
Soup for the
Soulless (Open Court Press, 2006), pp. 53-66.
- "Don't
Go There:
Reply to Crooks". Mind and Behavior,
Vol. 23, Number
3 (Summer 2002), pp. 223-232.
- "Nixin'
Goes to
China" in J. Preston and M. Bishop (eds.), Views
into the
Chinese Room (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2002), pp. 123-143.
- "Look
Who's Moving
the Goal Posts Now". Minds and Machines,
Vol. 11
(2001), No. 1, pp. 41-51. Reprinted in James H. Moor
(ed.), The
Turing Test: The Elusive Standard of Artificial
Intelligence
(Kluwer, 2003), pp. 185-196.
- "Ordinary
Devices.
A response to Selmer Bringsjord's 'Clarifying the Logic
of Anti-Computationalism: Reply to Hauser'.'"
Minds and
Machines, Vol. 10 (2000), No. 1, pp. 115-117.
- "Searle's
Chinese
Box: Debunking the Chinese Room Argument." Minds
and Machines,
Vol. 7 (1997), No. 2, pp. 199-226.
- "Doing
Without
Mentalese." Behavior and Philosophy, Vol. 23
(1995), pp.
42-47. An early version of this work appears in State
University of New
York at Buffalo Department of Computer Science and Center
for Cognitive
Science Technical Report No.92:12: Proceedings of the
Conference on
Cognition and Representation. John T. Kearns,
William J. Rapaport,
Erwin Segal, and Leonard Talmy, eds., pp. 206-216.
- "Acting,
Intending,
and Artificial Intelligence." Behavior and
Philosophy,
Vol. 22, No.1 (Spring/Summer, 1994), pp. 22-28.
- "Propositional
Actitudes:
Reply to Gunderson." Behavior and Philosophy,
Vol. 22, No.1 (Spring/Summer, 1994), pp. 35-40.
- "Reaping
the
Whirlwind: Reply to Harnad's `Other Bodies, Other Minds'."
Minds
and Machines, Vol. 3, No. 2 (May, 1993), pp.
219-238.
- "Why
Isn't My
Pocket Calculator a Thinking Thing?" Minds and
Machines,
Vol. 3, No. 1 (February, 1993), pp. 3-10. State
University of New
York at Buffalo Department of Computer Science and Center
for Cognitive
Science Technical Report No.91:20.
- "The
Sense of
`Thinking': Reply to Rapaport." Minds and
Machines, Vol. 3,
No. 1 (February, 1993), pp. 21-29. State University of New
York at
Buffalo Department of Computer Science and Center for
Cognitive Science
Technical Report No.91:20.
- "Act,
Aim, and
Unscientific Explanation." Philosophical
Investigations,
Vol. 15, No. 4. (October, 1992), pp. 313-323.
Encyclopedia and Dictionary
Entries
Papers
Presented
- "Science and
Sensibilia." Michigan State University Philosophy
Department
Colloquium Series, August 30, 2002. Handout: http://www.wutsamada.com/aol/lshauser/scisen.html
- "Look
Who's Moving
the Goalposts Now" Presented January 28, 2000 at the
conference, The
Future of the Turing Test: The Next Fifty Years, at
Dartmouth
College.
- "Presupposition as
Nonassertion." Coauthored with Barbara Abbott.
Presented by
Abbott at the Linguistics Society of America annual
meeting, Jan. 12,
1999.
- "Pet Semetary."
Commentary on Selmer Bringsjord's"'Zombanimals': Why
Robots are Just
Zombie Animals. Society for Machines and Mentality Group
Meeting,
Eastern Division of the American Philosophical
Association, December
28, 1998.
- "In
Search of the
Holy Quale: Much Ado about Consciousness." Albion
College. November
20, 1996.
- "Revenge
of the
Zombies." American Philosophical Association Eastern
Division
Colloquium: Philosophy of Mind, December 29, 1995.
Michigan State
University Philosophy Department, October 20, 1995.
- "Realism,
Model Theory,
and Linguistic Semantics." Jointly authored with
Barbara Abbott.
1995 Annual Meeting Linguistics Society of America,
January 8, 1995.
- "Searle's
Chinese
Box: Debunking the Chinese Room Argument." Western
Michigan
University Philosophy Department, May 20, 1994.
Forthcoming in Minds
and Machines.
- "Computation, Thought,
and
Intrinsicality." Philosophy Section of the Michigan
Academy of Science,
Arts and Letters, March 5, 1993. Michigan State University
Philosophy
of Language Discussion Group, June 8, 1993.
- "A Reanalysis of
Partitives."
Jointly authored with Barbara K. Abbott. Presented by
Barbara K. Abbott
at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of
America, January 8,
1993.
- "Natural
Language
and Thought." Jointly authored with Barbara K.
Abbott. State
University of New York at Buffalo Conference on Cognition
and
Representation, April 5, 1992.
- "Acting,
Intending,
and Artificial Intelligence." American Philosophical
Association Central Division Colloquium on Action Theory,
April 25,
1992. (Earlier versions presented at the Philosophy
Section of the
Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, March 15,
1991; to the
Working Minds Subcommittee of the Michigan State
University Philosophy
Graduate Student Club, February 27, 1991.)
- "Propositional
Actitudes:
Reply to Gunderson." American Philosophical
Association
Central Division Colloquium on Action Theory, April 25,
1992.
- "Why
Isn't My
Pocket Calculator a Thinking Thing?" American
Philosophical
Association Central Division Meeting Colloquium on the
Philosophy of
Mind, April 27, 1991. (Earlier versions presented at the
Philosophy
Section of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and
Letters, March
1990; to the Working Minds Subcommittee of the Michigan
State
University Philosophy Graduate Student Club, March 1990.
Also presented
at a Cognitive Science and Philosophy of Mind Colloquium
at Alma
College, November 20, 1991.)
- "The
Sense of
`Thinking': Reply to Rapaport." American
Philosophical Association
Central Division Meeting Colloquium on the Philosophy of
Mind, April
27, 1991. (The critical exchange consisting of an expanded
version of
"The Sense of `Thinking': Reply to Rapaport" along with
Rapaport's
"Reply to Hauser" and my "Why Isn't My Pocket Calculator a
Thinking
Thing?" appeared in Minds and Machines, Vol. 3,
No. 1
(February, 1993), pp. 3-29).
- "Belief, Desire and
Explanation." Philosophy Section of the Michigan Academy
of Science,
Arts and Letters: March 1989. Working Minds Subcommittee
of the
Michigan State University Philosophy Graduate Student
Club: March 1989.
Reviews
- "Review of
Robert Kirk's Zombies
and Consciousness". Notre
Dame Philosophical Reviews, June 12, 2006.
- "Review
of
S. Guttenplan (ed.), Companion to the Philosophy of
Mind".Minds
and Machines, Vol. 9. No. 2 (May 1999), pp. 300-303.
- "Review
of Selmer
Bringsjord's What Robots Can and Can't Be".
Minds and
Machines, Vol. 7, No. 3 (August 1997), pp. 433-438.
- Review of Jon Barwise
and John
Etchemendy's The Language of First Order Logic,
3rd Edition,
Including Tarski's World 4.0. History and Philosophy
of Logic,
15 (1994), pp. 146-147.
Philosophy-Related
Hypertext
Documents on the World Wide Web
Professional
Organization Membership
Appointments
&
Courses Taught
- Alma College: Assistant Professor
(Philosophy):
W96, W97, W98, Sp98, W99, W01, Sp01, F02-Su03, F03, F04,
W05, Sp05,
F05; W06; F06; Sp07: Visiting Instructor (Philosophy):
F99-W00
- Philosophy 111:
Survey of
Western Philosophy I: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy:
W98, W00, F01,
W03, F04
- Philosophy 112:
Survey of
Western Philosophy II: Modern Philosophy: W96, W97, W99,
W01, W02, F03, W06
- Philosophy 126:
Introduction to Values:
W96, W97, W98, W99a, W99b, F99, W00, W01, F01, W02, F02,
W03, Sp03,
F03, F04, F05
- Cognitive Science
180:
Topics in Cognitive Science: W96, W98, W00, W01
- Philosophy 227:
Ethics and
Business: F06
- Philosophy 229:
Ethics and
Medicine: W00
- Philosophy 347:
Philosophy
of Mind: Sp98,
Sp01,
Sp05,
Sp07
- Philosophy 305:
Philosophy
of Science: F99,
F02
- Roving Philosopher: Summer
Institute
on Medical Science, Technology and the Arts in the
21st
Century: July 11-24, 1999
- Central Michigan
University: Assistant Professor
(Philosophy): F98,
F00 (Dept. of Philosophy); WSuF02 (College of
Extended Learning).
- Philosophy 100:
Introduction
to Philosophy: F98, F00
- Philosophy 318:
Business
Ethics: F98,
F00,
W02, F02,
Su02
- Philosophy 118: Moral
Problems: F98
- Michigan
State University: Assistant
Professor (Philosophy): F95,
F04, Sp05, F05, Sp06
- Philosophy 130: Logic
and
Reasoning: F95, Sp06
- Philosophy 200:
Introduction
to Philosophy: F05
- Philosophy 330:
Formal
Reasoning: F95, F04
- Michigan
State University: Assistant
Professor (Integrative Studies
in the Arts and Humanities): SpO5
- IAH206: Self,
Society, and
Technology: Sp05
- Western Michigan
University, Lansing: Instructor
(Philosophy).
- Philosophy 320:
Formal
Logic: F95
- Philosophy 311:
Political
Philosophy F92
- Delta College:
Lecturer (Philosophy): W92
- Philosophy 211:
Introduction
to Philosophy (3 sections).
- Philosophy 213w:
Introduction to Ethics (writing across the curriculum).
- Philosophy 221:
Logic.
- Central Michigan
University: Instructor (Philosophy): F91.
- Philosophy 100:
Introduction
to Philosophy.
- Philosophy 404:
History of
Contemporary Philosophy.
- Michigan
State University: Graduate
Assistant (American Thought and
Language): F90-S91.
- American Thought
&
Language 1144: Developmental Writing I.
- American Thought
&
Language 1154: Developmental Writing II.
- Michigan
State University: Instructor
(Philosophy): W90-S90.
- Philosophy 103h:
Introductory Logic (honors).
- Michigan
State University: Visiting
Assistant Professor
(Philosophy): F04
- Philosophy 330:
Formal
Reasoning I
- Baker College,
Owosso: Instructor (Humanities): F89.
- Michigan
State University: Graduate
Assistant (Philosophy): W87-F89
(* = assisted).
- Philosophy 101:
Ethics and
Value: W87*, W88.
- Philosophy 102:
Knowledge
and Reality: Sp88, F88, W89, Sp89, Su89.
- Philosophy 103:
Introductory
Logic: Sp87*, F87, F89.
Guest Lectures
- Alma College
- Cognitive Science
180.
Natural Language Processing and Syntax (software
demonstration and
lecture). March 6, 1990.
- Cognitive Science
180.
Natural Language Processing and Semantics (software
demonstration and
lecture). March 13, 1990.
- Cognitive Science
180.
Artificial Intelligence: Why Isn't My Pocket Calculator
a Thinking
Thing. November 22, 1994.
- Philosophy 347
(Philosophy
of Mind). Artificial Intelligence. May 8, 1995.
- Cognitive Science
120.
Artificial Intelligence: The Turing Test and Chinese
Room
Argument. November 2001, November 2002, November
2003, November
2004, November 2005.
- Michigan
State University
- Zoology 867: Theory
and
Practice of Cognitive Science. Searle's Chinese
Room
Argument. January 31 & February 3, 2006.
- Philosophy/Linguistics/Psychology
450:
Cognitive Science. Consciousness. April 21, 2003.
- Philosophy 360:
Philosophy
of Mind: The Turing Test for Artificial
Intelligence. April 2002.
- Philosophy/Linguistics/Psychology
450:
Cognitive Science. Consciousness. April 28, 1998.
- Philosophy/Linguistics/Psychology
450:
Cognitive Science: Artificial Intelligence. April 21,
1997.
- Philosophy 420:
Philosophy
of Mind. Why Isn't My Pocket Calculator a Thinking
Thing? October 2,
1996.
- Philosophy/Linguistics/Psychology
450:
Cognitive Science. Artificial Intelligence: Why Isn't My
Pocket
Calculator a Thinking Thing? March 11, 1992; April 19,
1995.
- Phil./Linguistics/Psych.
450:
Cognitive Science. Other Minds, the Turing Test, and
Artificial
Intelligence. April 17, 1995.
- Philosophy/Linguistics/Psychology
450:
Cognitive Science. Artificial Intelligence: Turing's
Test and
Searle's Chinese Room Experiment. March 5, 1991;
April 21, 1993.
- Albion College:
- HSP 113H: Honors
Seminar in
Humanities. Zombies, Aliens, and Other Minds. November
20, 1996.
SERVICE
- Intramural:
Michigan State University
- Vice President, MSU
Organization of Philosophy Students, 1988-1989.
- President, MSU
Organization of Philosophy Students, 1989-1990.
- Graduate Student
Representative, College of Arts and Letters Educational
Policies
Committee, 1989-1990.
- Graduate Student
Representative, College of Arts and Letters Screening
Committee for the Teacher Scholar Awards and the
Excellence in Teaching
Citations, Fall 1989.
- Graduate Student
Representative, MSU Philosophy Dept. Graduate Committee,
1988-1990.
- Extramural
- In-house
(paid)
software reviews of LogicCoach (an introductory
logic
tutorial program to accompany Patrick J. Hurley's A
Concise
Introduction to Logic) for Wadsworth Books
Inc. Sept. 1990,
Sept. 1993, January 1995.
- Review
of
book manuscript for Kluwer. 1996.
- Review
of
article manuscript for Minds and Machines. 1997.
- Review
of
article manuscript for Journal of Logic, Language
and Information.
2001.
- Review
of
article manuscript for Philosophical Papers.
2002.
- Review
of
book manuscript for Broadview Press. 2002.
- Review
of
article manuscript for Mind and Machines.
2003.
- Review
of
article manuscript for Theory and Psychology.
2003.
- Review of article
manuscript
for Philosophy of Sport. 2005.