Darren Abramson

Associate Professor

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LOA 2022-2024



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contact via email:da@dal.ca


Email: da@dal.ca
Mailing Address: 
Room 1129, Marion McCain Building
Dalhousie University
6135 University Avenue
PO Box 15000
Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
 
Research Topics:
  • Philosophy of Computing
  • Philosophy of Cognitive Science
  • Philosophy of Mind

Education

  • Ph.D. (Philosophy and Cognitive Science), Indiana University
  • M.Sc. (Computer Science), Indiana University
  • B.A. Hons.(Philosophy), University of Toronto

Selected Publications

  •  "It's time to reevaluate copyright," Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship Newsletter, April 2017.
  • "The Philosophical Legacy of Alan Turing," TheCritique.com special feature on the Imitation Game. December 2014
  • "Abramson, Darren; Pietroszek, Krzysztof; Chinaei, Leila; Lank, Edward; Terry, Michael, “Classroom response systems in higher education: Meeting user needs with NetClick,” Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2013 IEEE, 13-15 March 2013, 840-846.
  • "Automated Mechanism Design with Co-Evolutionary Hierarchical Genetic Programming Techniques," with John Doucette. Proceedings of the fourteenth international conference on genetic and evolutionary computation conference, ACM 2012/7/7, 935-942
  •  "When Formal Systems Kill: Computer Ethics and Formal Methods," with Lee Pike.  APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers, Vol. 11. No. 1 (Fall 2011) 6-13.
  • Descartes' Influence on Turing," Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, 42 (2011) 544-551.
  • “Philosophy of Mind Is (In Part) Philosophy of Computer Science," Minds and Machines Special Issue on the Philosophy of Computer Science, May 2011.
  • “The Original Test: It’s Harder Than You Might Think,” Proceedings of the 36th Annual Convention of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour, De Montford University, Leicester. March 2010.
  • “Review of Supersizing the Mind by Andy Clark,” International Journal of Machine Consciousness, Vol. 1 No. 2, 2009; pp. 229-304.