User:Edward Grefenstette

Edward Grefenstette

About me

Summary

I am a Physics and Philosophy student at the University of Sheffield. I will be graduating with a BSc in 2007, and continuing onto an M.Litt course in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. I have given (fairly mediocre) papers on philosophical issues in artificial intelligence and on convention of language at conferences, as well as published on the topic of qualia and epiphenominalism. I am the current chair of the British Undergraduate Philosophy Society, and will be for the remainder of the 2006-2007 session. My current research interests lie in the philosophy of mathematics and language and therefore logic, as well as some areas of philosophy of mind (in particular issues of the relation between language and cognition). I'm constantly on the move between my academic residence in the UK, and my family residence near Paris. I frequently visit my relatives on the east coast of the US, as well as teach English in Tokyo during the summer.

General info

• Date of birth: October 7, 1985
• Place of birth: Chambray-lès-Tours, France
• Current resididence: Sheffield, United Kingdom; Saint-Cyr-l'École, France
• Email: egrefen AT gmail DOT com
• Instant messenger: Edward Gref (AIM), email (Windows Live Messenger), email (Google Talk)
• Personal webpage (blog)
• Professional webpage (BUPS)
• Joined citizendium: May 7, 2007

Education

• Brevet International des Colleges, CSI Stendhal, International High School, September 2000
• IGCSE (Language, Literature), CSI Stendhal, International High School, September 2001
• Baccalauréat OIB Scientific Series, CSI Europole, International High School, September 2003
• BSc Physics and Philosophy, University of Sheffield, Planned June 2007
• MLitt Philosophy, University of St Andrews, Planned September 2008

Current occupations/employment

• British Undergraduate Philosophy Society Chair, September 2006 - Present.
• Higher Education Academy PRS Subject Centre Advisory Board Member, September 2006 - Present.
• Private Tutor (French, Mathematics), 2004 - Present.

Current academic interests

• Philosophy of language
  • Wittgenstein
  • Realism/Anti-Realism debate
    • Wrightian minimalism
    • Quasi-realism
  • Convention
  • Implicature
• Philosophy of mind
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Functionalism
  • Intentionality
• Philosophy of mathematics
  • Foundational crisis of mathematics
  • Neo-fregeanism
  • Instrumentalism
• Interdisciplinarity
  • Philosophy and Computer Science
  • Philosophy and Psychology

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