Information for Philosophy Postgraduates in COGS

School of Cognitive Computing Sciences, University of Sussex
(Additions and corrections welcome)
In general, check:
Here are some relevant meetings around Sussex (in addition to course seminars and lectures):

PHILOSOPHY

Every year in the Summer term there is a two-day Philosophy retreat at the Isle of Thorns conference centre. Make sure you sign up some time in May/June; it's a lot of fun!

Although these meetings are not at Sussex, you may wish to check out:

If you can't find the latest schedules for these meetings, try emailing Mr. G. Hunt (pyaas@snow.csv.warwick.ac.uk) for a copy.

COGNITIVE SCIENCE

There is also an annual retreat to the Isle of Thorns for all COGS research students. Keep an eye out for announcements at the beginning of the summer term and make sure you go! It's a lot of fun.

PSYCHOLOGY

Details for some Psychology seminars are in /rsuna/home/nicolay/cal/psy.cal and /tsunb/home/cog/nicolay/psy.cal. WWW WARNING: these links are only guaranteed to be available if you are logged in to rsuna or tsunb, respectively. If you are not, and try to access them through WWW, your client may hang.

A suggestion: form your own informal discussion groups!

EMAIL LISTS & NEWS

It is possible to get your username on an email list, so that any messages that are sent to the list are also sent to you. These lists can be quite lively, with heated debates, or they may just be announcements of jobs, conferences, books, etc. There are several based in cogs, ones you might be interested in are cogphi (cognitive philosophy), pdp (parallel distributed processing/neural nets), and alergic (artificial life). Type help cogs_aliases on a COGS machine for details.

As for non-COGS lists, try Philos-l (UK Philosophers). Just send email to listserv@liverpool.ac.uk with the message subscribe Philos-l your name. There are many, many more external email lists, but I suggest you just start with this one until you are comfortable with it.

There is an electronic Philosophy pre-print service; try the command:
gopher apa.oxy.edu

An enormous amount of Philosophy info (everything from jokes to bibliographies to electronic texts and journals) can be obtained by using the command:
gopher catfish.valdosta.peachnet.edu.
Select internet resources, and then subject tree and then Philosophy. Look especially at texts, under:
Philosophy of Mind Bibliography by David Chalmers.

There is also an enormous international network of news groups, discussing everything from windsurfing to Windows, called Usenet. You'll have to ask someone else how to access it (probably via VED). Some of the relevant newsgroups are:

For further information, consult the document, ``Philosophy In Cyberspace: A Guide to Philosophy-Related Resources on the Internet''. If you know how to use ftp, then ftp to info.monash.edu.au, and get the file pub/philosophy/phlguide.txt.

THE WORLD-WIDE WEB

If you are reading this document via Mosaic or some such program, you already know about the Web. From the creators of the Web in Switzerland:

The WorldWideWeb (W3) is the universe of network-accessible information, an embodiment of human knowledge. It is an initiative started at CERN, now with many participants. It has a body of software, and a set of protocols and conventions. W3 uses hypertext and multimedia techniques to make the web easy for anyone to roam, browse, and contribute to. Future evolution of W3 is coordinated by the W3 Organization.

For example, I wanted to write something here about the Web, and by using Mosaic, a PD web-browser, I was able to get the relevant information from Switzerland in seconds. HTTP is the comand that does all the work in programs like Mosaic. It's a fancy, fast file transfer protocol (ftp) that incorporates graphics & sound. It's taking over, so get on the bandwagon fast. There's lots of fun stuff out there on the web, and it has the feeling of the wild west, since the frontier is expanding so rapidly! A directory of some philosophy resources on the Web can be found at http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Philosophy/resources.html.

UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

The library catalog can be accessed with the command: telnet library, or by acually walking over to the building itself!

RESEARCH INTERESTS: FACULTY

To get an idea of the topics, philosophical and otherwise, that COGS faculty are pursuing, try:

RESEARCH INTERESTS: POSTGRADUATES

To get an idea of the topics, philosophical and otherwise, that COGS postgrads are pursuing, try:

CURRENT PHILOSOPHY PEOPLE IN COGS

Philosophy of Cognitive Science MA students 1994-95

MSc KBS students taking the Philosophy of Cognitive Science option 1994-95

Philosophy MA students taking the Philosophy of Cognitive Science option 1994-95

MPhil students

DPhil students

Faculty

OTHER DOCUMENTS

Most are available from the COGS School Office/COGS Library:
Ron Chrisley