Construction of the Fall 2001 edition
of MINDS & MACHINES, Rensselaer's hottest First Year Studies Course
is nearing completion. Among the innovative features of this course
are the cognitive robot building competition, the LEGO ROBOT ROUNDUP and
the accompanying Minds & Machines/First Year Studies Lecture Series.
Academics/Intellectuals fit somewhere
on the FOX-HEDGEHOG spectrum. The FOX knows many little things while
the HEDGEHOG knows one big thing. I am definitely a Hedgehog in that
my intellectual life is devoted to searching for a unified, comprehensive
world view that incorporates MIND and NATURE.
This Fall ('99) I will be teaching
3 sections of MINDS & MACHINES. In Spring '00 I will be teaching
Introduction to Philosophy, Introduction to Philosophy of Science and Knowledge
& Cognition
