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SUSAN SCHNEIDER Library of Congress the University of Connecticut Email: Susansdr@Gmail.Com Cell: (908) 938-2365 Homepage: Schneiderwebsite.Com SUSAN SCHNEIDER Library of Congress The University of Connecticut Email: [email protected] Cell: (908) 938-2365 Homepage: SchneiderWebsite.com Academic Appointments Baruch S. Blumburg NASA-Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology, Exploration and Technological innovation, Library of Congress and NASA, Washington, DC (2019-2020). Distinguished Scholar Chair, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Jan 2019 – June 2019). Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Conn. (2012 – present). Director, AI, Mind and Society (“AIMS”) Research Group Faculty member (affiliate), The Connecticut Institute for Brain and Cognitive Sciences Faculty member (affiliate), Cognitive Science Program Technology and Ethics Group, Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Yale University, New Haven, CT (Spring 2015-Fall 2019). Visiting Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ (Spring 2017). Research Fellow, Research School of the Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (Fall 2013). Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (2006- 2012). Faculty member, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience Faculty member, Center for Neuroscience and Society Faculty member, Institute for Research in Cognitive Science Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Moravian College (2003–2006). Research Areas Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of AI, Philosophy of Cognitive Science (including 1 Neuroscience), Metaphysics (Mind, Consciousness), Applied Ethics (Neuroethics and AI Ethics), Philosophy of Science (AI, Cognitive Science, Astrobiology). Education Ph.D., Philosophy, (Dec., 2003), Rutgers University, Dept. of Philosophy. B.A., Economics, (with honors), University of California at Berkeley, 1993. Books in Progress From Bio to Bit: Our Place in a Universe of Intelligent Systems, W.W. Norton & Co, NY: NY. UK and Commonwealth rights: Oxford University Press. Books 1. Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind, (2019). Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Crossover book, US release date: 1 Oct., 2019. UK release date: 1 Nov.) Audio edition – Fall 2019. Chinese translation -- Hunan Science and Technology Press, Spring 2020. Reviews: The Wall Street Journal, Nature, Inside Higher Education, Times Higher Education. 2. The Language of Thought: A New Philosophical Direction, (2011). Cambridge: MIT Press. (Monograph, 259 pp.) Paperback edition – Spring 2015. 3. Science Fiction and Philosophy, (2009). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. (Anthology, 350 pages). Second Edition, Fall 2015. Portuguese translation – Madras Editora Ltda., Brazil, 2010. Arabic translation – Ntl. Center for Translation, Egypt, 2011. Croatian translation (in progress). 4. The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness, (2017). Susan Schneider and Max Velmans (eds.), Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 768 pp. 2nd Edition. Journal Special Issues/Book on Schneider’s Work Minds, Selves and 21st Century Technology, Robert Clowes, Klaus Gartner and Ines Hipolto (ed.), Kluwer, forthcoming. Journal of Consciousness Studies, forthcoming in 2020. (On Schneider’s new book, Artificial You.) 2 Journal of Consciousness Studies, vol. 24, nu. 11. Oct., 2017. (In the metaphysics of mind.) Conferences and Workshops on Schneider’s Work “Future Minds,” (Named after the older title of Artificial You). Czech Academy of Sciences, Ernst Mach Workshop, Prague, Czech Republic, June 12-13, 2019. “Minds, Selves and 21st Century Technology,” IFILNOVA, New University of Lisbon. Lisbon, Portugal, June 23-24, 2016. (Another is planned for the summer of 2020.) “How Should Ethics and Technology Converse?” The Mellon Lecture (followed the next day with a workshop of three round-table discussions with faculty and post-docs from the greater Boston area on themes of the talk), Hariri Center of Computing and Department of Philosophy, Boston University, Boston, MA., March 2018. Academic Articles and Book Chapters “Idealism, or Something Near Enough,” Idealism: New Essays in Metaphysics, Kenny Pearce and Tyron Goldschmidt (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, pp. 275-291. (Focused on in NDPR review of the volume: https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/idealism-new-essays-in- metaphysics/) “Does the Mathematical Nature of Physics Undermine Physicalism?” The target paper for a special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies, Sept. 2017, vol. 24, numbers 9-10, pp. 7-39. “What Breathes Fire into the Equations? Response to Critics,” Journal of Consciousness Studies, (Special issue on Schneider’s paper). Sept. 2017, vol. 24, numbers 9-10, pp. 112-132. “AI, Brain Enhancements and the Future of the Mind,” (with Cody Turner), The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI, Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming. “How to Catch an AI Zombie: Testing for Consciousness in Machines,” Liao, M., Ethics of AI, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. “Engineering the Mind: the Scope and Limits of AI Technology,” Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology, Shannon Vallor, ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming. 3 “Designing the Mind?,” Mind and Language, forthcoming. (Special issue on varieties of mind-- invited). “How Philosophy of Mind can Shape the Future,” (with Pete Mandik), Amy Kind (ed.), Philosophy of Mind in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries. New York: Routledge. 2018. pp. 303-319. (The final chapter of a four volume set on the history of philosophy of mind.) “Superintelligent AI and the Postbiological Cosmos Approach” in Losch, A. What is Life? On Earth and Beyond. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017, pp. 178-198. -Reprinted in The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Post-Biological Intelligence, the SETI Institute, 2017: https://www.seti.org/seti-institute/Search-Extraterrestrial-Life-Post- Biological-Intelligence-2#Susan%20Schneider “Cyborg Divas and Hybrid Minds,” with Joseph Corabi (for volume from conference on Schneider’s work), Minds, Selves and 21st Century Technology, Robert Clowes, Klaus Gartner and Ines Hipolto (ed.), Kluwer, forthcoming. “Alien Minds,” The Impact of Discovering Life Beyond Earth, Steven Dick, Cambridge University Press, 2015, pp. 189-206. -- Reprinted in Schneider, Science Fiction and Philosophy, 2nd Edition. -- PBS TV episode on paper and related NASA project: https://www.pbs.org/video/alien-minds- hakbbl/ "Concepts, Symbols, Computation: An Integrative Approach" (with Janelle Salisbury) in M. Sprevak, M. Colombo (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of the Computational Mind. Routledge, 2019. “Artificial Intelligence, Consciousness, and Moral Status,” The Routledge Handbook of Neuroethics, Syd Johnson and Karen Rommelfanger, eds., 2017. “Non-reductive Physicalism and the Mind Problem,” Nous, Vol. 47, Number 1, pp. 135-153, 2013. “Non-reductive Physicalism Cannot Appeal to Token Identity,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 85 (3):719-728, 2013. “The Metaphysics of Uploading”, (with Joseph Corabi), Symposium Contribution on David Chalmers’, “The Singularity”, with Chalmers’ response, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 19 (7):26. 2012. --Reprinted in Intelligent Machines, Uploaded Minds, Russell Blackford (ed.), Wiley- Blackwell, 2014. (Includes our new response to David Chalmers’ reply to our paper, this version of the paper is simplified for a multidisciplinary audience.), pp. 131-145. 4 “Why Property Dualism Cannot Accept Physicalism about Substance.” Philosophical Studies, Vol. 157, Number 1, Jan. 2012. “Conceptual Atomism Rethought,” Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 224-225, 2010. “The Nature of Symbols in the Language of Thought,” Mind and Language, Vol. 24, Nu. 4, Winter 2009, pp. 523-553. “LOT, CTM and the Elephant in the Room,” Synthese, Vol. 170, Nu. 2, Sept. 2009, pp. 235-250. “Fodor’s Challenge to the Classical Computational Theory of Mind” (with Kirk Ludwig), Mind and Language, Vol. 23, No. 1, Feb. 2008: 123-143. “What is the Significance of the Intuition that the Laws of Nature Govern?" Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 25, No. 2, June 2007, pp. 307-324. “Yes, It Does: A Diatribe on Jerry Fodor’s Mind Doesn’t Work that Way,” Psyche, Vol. 13, No. 1, Spring 2007, pp. 1-15. “Direct Reference, Psychological Explanation, and Frege Cases,” Mind and Language, Vol. 20, Issue 4, Sept. 2005, pp. 223-447. "Alien Individuals, Alien Universals, and Armstrong's Combinatorial Theory of Modality," The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 39, Nu. 4, 2002, pp. 575–593. (Note: “alien” here is a technical term in the metaphysics of modality literature. This is not an astrobiology paper.) “Rethinking the Language of Thought,” (primary author; with Matthew Katz), Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science. Lynn Nadel, Shaun Nichols, Michael Corballis, et. al., (eds.), Vol. 3 Issue 2, 2012, (Solicited opinion piece.) --To be reprinted in a reference work on the mind by these same editors (presently untitled). Forthcoming with Wiley-Blackwell. “The Language of Thought.” The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology, Paco Calvo and John Symons, eds. NY: Routledge, 2009, pp. 280-295. “Thought Experiments: Science Fiction as a Window into Philosophical Puzzles,” in Science Fiction and Philosophy, Susan Schneider, editor. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2009, pp. 1-14. “Mindscan: Transcending and Enhancing the Human Brain,” Science Fiction and Philosophy, Susan Schneider, editor. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2009, pp. 241-255. --Reprinted in Neuroscience and Neuroethics: Issues At the Intersection of Mind, Meanings 5 and Morality, Giordano J. (ed.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2011).
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