Credits
From Inpho Wiki
Colin Allen Project Director
Colin Allen is Professor of History & Philosophy of Science and Professor of Cognitive Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he has been since 2004. He also holds an adjunct appointment in the Department of Philosophy, and is a faculty member of IU's Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior. His main area of research is on the philosophical foundations of cognitive science, particularly with respect to nonhuman animals. He is interested in the scientific debates between ethology and comparative psychology, and current issues arising in cognitive ethology. Allen has also published on other topics in the philosophy of mind and philosophy of biology, and artificial intelligence.
Since 1998 he has been consulting and programming for The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and is Associate Editor of the encyclopedia. In 1995 Allen created the first interactive logic site on the world wide web with Texas A&M colleague Chris Menzel at http://logic.tamu.edu/. They are also co-developers of the site at http://www.poweroflogic.com. Allen is currently director of the Indiana Philosophy Ontology project (InPhO) which in 2007 was awarded a Digital Humanities startup grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Allen is also Associate Editor of Noesis philosophy search engine.
Cameron Buckner Graduate Assistant/Programmer
Cameron is a fifth year graduate student in philosophy at Indiana University in Bloomington. He has just finished coursework and is beginning dissertation research in the philosophy of cognitive science, dealing especially with the psychology of human intuitive judgment and animal cognition.
Mathias Niepert Graduate Assistant/Programmer
Mathias is a fourth year Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department at Indiana University. Along with InPhO, Mathias works with his advisers, Dirk Van Gucht and Marc Gyssens, developing a general theoretical framework for implication problems such as the implication problems for probabilistic conditional independence statements and the implication problem for disjunctive association rules. It involves methods from mathematical logic, probability theory, lattice theory, and data mining.
Jamie Murdock Undergraduate Assistant/Programmer & Technical Support
Jaimie is a second year undergraduate student in Cognitive Science and Computer Science at Indiana University Bloomington.
Ruth Eberle Server Administrator
Tarun Gangwani Data & Web Interfaces
