User:JWSchmidt

Central Wikicities page for John Schmidt

My Language interests

 * I am interested in the natural unity of philosophical and scientific investigations of language (E. O. Wilson's consilience)
 * I am interested in the biology of human language behavior. What makes humans the only language using critter on Earth? How many genes in a chimp would have to be tweeked in order to make a talking chimp?
 * I am interested in the idea that human can build devices that will display human language behavior. I think that we need to design autonomous robots that can interact with the world and learn language in the same way that human children do. See: Talking Robots.
 * I am interested in learning about philosophers of mind and language who are not afraid of science, or, even those philosophers who have shunned science while still reaching conclusions that that are shared by scientists who study language and the mind. see this and this.

My current projects

 * bring PSL discussion group files from my personal website to this wiki website.
 * perform peer review of Robert Parr's article, Before Reading the Philosophical Investigations: a Necessary Context.

Completed projects

 * Short tour of this wikicity
 * Start the Language Journal
 * PSL:Topics Outline
 * Science new watch
 * create list of brain topics.
 * Current events
 * Community Portal
 * Help