Tim van Gelder Research Publications

last updated 10-Sep-04 (but still not up to date...)

Forthcoming

2005

van Gelder, T. J. (2005). Teaching critical thinking: some lessons from cognitive science. College Teaching, 45, 1-6.

van Gelder, T. J. (2005). Enhancing and Augmenting Human Reasoning. In A. Zilhão (Ed.), Cognition, Evolution, and Rationality. London: Routledge.

2004

van Gelder, T. (2004). Beyond the mind-body problem. In C. Erneling & D. Johnson (Eds.), The Mind as a Scientific Object: Between Brain and Culture. New York: Oxford University Press.

van Gelder, T. J., Bissett, M., & Cumming, G. (2004). Cultivating Expertise in Informal Reasoning. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 58, 142-152.

2002

van Gelder, T. J. (2002). Argument Mapping with Reason!Able. The American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers, 85-90.

van Gelder, T. J. (2002). Enhancing Deliberation Through Computer-Supported Argument Visualization. In P. Kirschner & S. Buckingham Shum & C. Carr (Eds.), Visualizing Argumentation: Software Tools for Collaborative and Educational Sense-Making. London: Springer-Verlag.

van Gelder, T.J. A ‘Reason!Able’ Approach to Critical Thinking. Principal Matters: The Journal for Australasian Secondary School Leaders, May 2002, 34-6.

2001

van Gelder, T.J.  (2001)  How to improve critical thinking using educational technology. In G. Kennedy, M. Keppell, C. McNaught & T. Petrovic (Eds.), Meeting at the Crossroads. Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education. (pp. 539-548). Melbourne: Biomedical Multimedia Unit, The University of Melbourne. 

van Gelder, T.J. (2001) The Reason! Project. The Skeptic, 21 no.2, pp.9-12

van Gelder, T.J. Critical Thinking: Some Lessons Learned. Adult Learning Australia Adult Learning Commentary Number 12, 30 May 2001

van Gelder, T.J. & Rizzo, A. Reason!Able Across the Curriculum. in 2001: Is IT an Odyssey in Learning? Proceedings of the 2001 Conference of ICT in Education Victoria

2000

van Gelder, T.J. (2000) Critical Thinking on the Web. Informal Logic, 20, Teaching Supplement #3: pp. TS 84-TS 86. pdf

van Gelder, T. J. (2000) Learning to reason: A Reason!-Able approach. In C. Davis, T. J. van Gelder, & R. Wales ed., Cognitive Science in Australia, 2000: Proceedings of the Fifth Australasian Cognitive Science Society Conference. Adelaide: Causal.  pdf

van Gelder, T. J., & Bulka, A. (2000) Reason!: Improving informal reasoning skills. in Proceedings of the Australian Computers in Education Conference, Melbourne July 2000.  pdf

van Gelder, T. J. (2000) Of all the bars, in all the world... Quadrant, July-August, 35-37.  Version broadcast on Ockham's Razor, ABC Radio National

van Gelder, T. J. (2000) Wooden Iron? Husserlian Phenomenology Meets Cognitive Science. In J. Petitot, F. J. Varela, J.-M. Roy, & B. Pachoud ed., Naturalizing Phenomenology: Issues in Contemporary Phenomenology and Cognitive Science. Stanford: Stanford University Press,

van Gelder, T. J. (2000) The Efficacy of Informal Reasoning Courses. Preprint No. 1/2000, University of Melbourne Department of Philosophy. html

1999

van Gelder, T., Williams, N., Di Nicolantonio, R., & Kemm, R. (1999) Critical thinking in physiology: A Reason!-able approach. In ASCILITE 1999: Responding to Diversity. Proceedings from the 16th Annual Conference of the Australiasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education. Brisbane: Queensland University of Technology, 359-367. pdf

van Gelder, T. J. (1999) Bait and switch? Real time, ersatz time and dynamical models. In R. Heath, B. Hayes, A. Heathcote, & C. Hooker ed., Dynamical Cognitive Science: Proceedings of the Fourth Australasian Cognitive Science Conference. Newcastle, NSW: University of Newcastle. html

van Gelder, T. J. (1999) What's philosophy got to do with it? In R. Heath, B. Hayes, A. Heathcote, & C. Hooker ed., Dynamical Cognitive Science: Proceedings of the Fourth Australasian Cognitive Science Conference. Newcastle, NSW: University of Newcastle. html

van Gelder, T. J. (1999) Dynamic approaches to cognition. In R. Wilson & F. Keil ed., The MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 244-6.  pdf

van Gelder, T. J. (1999) Distributed versus local representation. In R. Wilson & F. Keil ed., The MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 236-8. pdf

van Gelder, T. (1999) Revisiting the Dynamical Hypothesis. Preprint No. 2/99, University of Melbourne, Department of Philosophy. pdf

van Gelder, T. (1999) "Heads I Win, Tails You Lose": A Brief Foray into the Psychology of Philosophy. In D. Gaffy & E. Schabel ed., Proceedings of the Philosophy Women's Committee Lunchtime Series, Vol. 1. 92-103.

van Gelder, T. (1999) Heads I win, tails you lose: Desire's hold over reason. Quadrant, July/August. pdf

van Gelder, T. J. (1999) Defending the dynamical hypothesis. In W. Tschacher & J.-P. Dauwalder ed., Dynamics, Synergetics, Autonomous Agents: Nonlinear Systems Approaches to Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Science. Singapore: World Scientific, 13-28. pdf

1998

van Gelder, T. J. (1998) Review of Andy Clark, Being here: Putting Mind, Body and World Back Together. Philosophical Review, 107, 647-50. html

van Gelder, T. J. (1998) The dynamical hypothesis in cognitive science. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21, 1-14. pdf Italian translation

van Gelder, T. J. (1998) Disentangling dynamics, computation, and cognition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21, 40-7. pdf

van Gelder, T. J. (1998) Monism, dualism, pluralism. Mind and Language, 13, 76-97. pdf

van Gelder, T. J. (1998) The roles of philosophy in cognitive science. Philosophical Psychology, 11, 117-136. pdf

van Gelder, T. J. (1998) Cognitive architecture: What choice do we have? In Z. Pylyshyn ed., Constraining Cognitive Theories: Issues and Options. Stamford CT: Ablex, 191-204.

van Gelder, T. J. (1998) Into the Deep Blue yonder. Quadrant, 42, 33-39. html

van Gelder, T. J. (1998) Computers and computation in cognitive science. In M. T. Michalewicz ed., Advances in Computational Life Sciences Vol.2: Humans to Proteins. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 109-126. pdf

1997

Review Symposium on Mind as Motion. Metascience, New Series Issue 11, 1997, 134-40. html

van Gelder, T. (1997) Connectionism, dynamics, and the philosophy of mind. In M. Carrier & P. K. Machamer ed., Mindscapes: Philosophy, Science, and the Mind. Konstanz: UVK • Universitätsverlag Konstanz, 245-69.

1996

Greco-Cartesian Epistemology. Bulpadok, 1996

Connectionism; Internalism - entries in T. Mautner, ed., Dictionary of Philosophy. Blackwell, 1996

van Gelder, T. J. (1996) Wooden iron? Husserlian phenomenology meets cognitive science. Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy. Online

Beyond the Mind-Body Problem. html

Port, R., & van Gelder, T. J. (1995) Mind as Motion: Explorations in the Dynamics of Cognition. Cambridge MA: MIT Press. MIT Press site

Reviews:

  • Contemporary Psychology, vol 42 no. 8, 1997, 697-9 (Paul Treffner)
  • Philosophical Psychology (R. Grush)
  • Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology and Life Sciences, vol 3. no.2 1999 (Douglas Vickers)
  • Bulletin of the Meuninger Clinic, vol 62 no.4, Fall 1998
  • Axiomathes, Dec. 1996, 438-440. (Roberto Poli)
  • Journal of Consciousness Studies, vol 5 no.3, 1998, 381-3 (M.I. Stamenov)
  • Times Higher Education Supplement (Colin Clifford)
  • Computing Review, Nov. 1996 (H. Van Dyke Parunak)
  • Choice, June 1996 (P.L. Derks)

van Gelder, T. J., & Port, R. (1995) It's About Time: An Overview of the Dynamical Approach to Cognition. In R. Port & T. van Gelder ed., Mind as Motion: Explorations in the Dynamics of Cognition. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1-43.

van Gelder, T. J. (1996) Its about time: An overview of the dynamical approach to cognition. In H. Geirsson & M. Losonsky ed., Readings in Language and Mind. Cambridge MA: Blackwell, 326-353.

van Gelder, T. J. (1995) What might cognition be, if not computation? Journal of Philosophy, 91, 345-381.

See also:

van Gelder, T. J. (1997) The dynamical alternative. In D. Johnson & C. Erneling ed., The Future of the Cognitive Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 227-244.

van Gelder, T. J. (1997) Dynamics and cognition. In J. Haugeland ed., Mind Design II. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 421-50.

van Gelder, T. J. (1995) The distinction between mind and cognition. In Y.-H. Houng & J.-C. Ho ed., Mind and Cognition. Taipei: Academia Sinica, 57-82. html

van Gelder, T. (1995) Modeling, Connectionist and Otherwise. In L. F. Niklasson & M. B. Bodén ed., Current Trends in Connectionism: Proceedings of the 1995 Swedish Conference on Connectionism. Hillsdale NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 217-235.

1994

van Gelder, T. J. (1994) Compositionality and dynamics in neural network representations. Sémiotiques, 6, 49-67.

van Gelder, T. J., & Niklasson, L. (1994) On being systematically connectionist. Mind and Language, 9, 288-302. pdf

van Gelder, T. J., & Port, R. (1994) Beyond symbolic: Towards a Kama-Sutra of compositionality. In V. Honavar & L. Uhr ed., Symbol Processing and Connectionist Network Models in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Modelling: Steps Toward Principled Integration. San Diego: Academic Press, 107-25.

Niklasson, L., & van Gelder, T. (1994) Can Connectionist Models Exhibit Non-Classical Structure Sensitivity? In Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pdf

van Gelder, T., & Niklasson, L. (1994) Classicalism and cognitive architecture. In Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale NJ: Erlbaum, pdf

van Gelder, T.J. Playing Flourens to Fodor's Gall: Commentary on Farah, Neuropsychological Inference with an Interactive Brain. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1994, 17: 84. 


 1993

Connectionism and the Mind-Body Problem: Exposing The Distinction Between Mind and Cognition.
Artificial Intelligence Review 1993; 7: 355-369.

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  • Also in Niklasson & M. Bodén (Eds.), Connectionism in a Broad Perspective: Selected Papers from the Swedish Conference on Connectionism 1992. Ellis Horwood, 1994; 1-12.

Is Cognition Categorization?
in Nakamura, G.V. & Taraban R. M. (Eds.) Acquisition, Representation and Processing of Categories and Concepts: The Contribution of Exemplars and Theories. Orlando, FL: Academic Press, 1993.

Not the Mind's New Science?
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale N.J.: L.Erlbaum Associates, 1993.

Pumping Intuitions with Watt's Engine.
CogSci News (Lehigh University Cognitive Science Program Newsletter) 6, 1993, p.4-7.


1992

Defining "Distributed Representation".
Connection Science, Special Issue on Philosophical Issues in Connectionist Modeling. 1992; 4: 175-191.

Making Conceptual Space.
in S. Davis (Ed.) Connectionism, Theory and Practice. Oxford University Press, 1992; 179-194.

"The Proper Treatment of Cognition."
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale N.J.: L.Erlbaum Associates, 1992.


1991

Classical Questions, Radical Answers: Connectionism and the Structure of Mental Representations.
in Horgan T. & Tienson J. (eds) Connectionism and the Philosophy of Mind. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1991.

What is the 'D' in 'PDP'? An Overview of the Concept of Distribution.
in Stich S., Rumelhart D. & Ramsey W. (eds) Philosophy and Connectionist Theory. Hillsdale N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 1991.

Representing Aspects of Language.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale N.J.: L.Erlbaum Associates, 1991; 487-492. [with Robert Port]

Connectionism and Dynamical Explanation.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale N.J.: L.Erlbaum Associates, 1991; 499-503.

Review of Paul Churchland, A Neurocomputational Perspective: The Nature of Mind and the Structure of Science.
Connection Science 1991; 3: 91-3.


 1990

Compositionality: A Connectionist Variation on a Classical Theme.
Cognitive Science 1990; 14: 355-384.

Why Distributed Representation is Inherently Non-Symbolic.
in G. Dorffner (ed.) Konnektionismus in Artificial Intelligence und Kognitionsforschung. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1990; 58-66.

Connectionism and Language Processing.
in G. Dorffner (ed.) Konnektionismus in Artificial Intelligence und Kognitionsforschung. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1990; 208-211.

Connectionist Models Learn What? Commentary on Hanson & Burr, What Connectionist Models Learn.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 1990.

Backpropagating One's Way to Aboutness.
Review of William Bechtel, Connectionism and Intentionality. Neural Network Review 1990; 4: 78-80.


1989

Credible Threats and Usable Weapons: Some Dilemmas of Deterrence.
Philosophy and Public Affairs 1989; 18: 158-83.

Compositionality and the Explanation of Cognitive Processes.
Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale N.J.: L.Erlbaum Associates, 1989.



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