Cameron Buckner, Ph.D.

Website

http://cameronbuckner.net/professional/

Currently Teaching

• PHI 3681 Ethics, Data, and Technology
• PHI 6326 Nativism and Empiricism in Artificial Intelligence

Office Hours (Spring)

• Tuesdays 10:30–11:30am
• Thursdays 10:30–11:30am
• By appointment

Areas of Specialization

• Philosophy of Psychology and Cognitive Science
• Philosophy of Mind
• Artificial Intelligence

Curriculum Vitae

• CV 2026

Monograph

(2023) Buckner, C. From Deep Learning to Rational Machines: What the History of Philosophy Can Teach Us about the Future of Artificial Intelligence. Oxford University Press.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

(2023) Buckner, C. "Black Boxes or Unflattering Mirrors? Comparative Bias in the Science of Machine Behavior." The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 73(3).
(2022) Buckner, C. "A Forward-Looking Theory of Content." Ergo, 8(13).
(2020) Buckner, C. "Understanding Adversarial Examples Requires a Theory of Artifacts for Deep Learning." Nature Machine Intelligence 2, 731-736.
(2019a) Buckner, C. "Deep Learning: A Philosophical Introduction." Philosophy Compass. 14(10) e12625.
(2019b) Buckner, C. "Rational Inference: The Lowest Bounds." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 98(3) 697-724.
(2018) Buckner, C. "Empiricism without Magic: Transformational Abstraction in Deep Convolutional Neural Networks." Synthese, 195(12), pp. 5339–5372.
(2017) Buckner, C., & Yang, K. "Mating Dances and the Evolution of Language: What’s the Next Step?" Biology & Philosophy, 32(6), pp 1289–1316.
(2016a) Bugnyar, T., Reber, S., and Buckner, C. "Ravens Attribute Visual Access to Unseen Competitors." Nature Communications 7. doi:10.1038/ncomms10506
(2016b) Buckner, C. "Transitional Gradation in the Mind: Rethinking Psychological Kindhood." The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 67(4), 1091-1115.
(2015a) Buckner, C. "A Property-Cluster Theory of Cognition." Philosophical Psychology, 28(3), 307-336.
(2015b) Buckner, C. "Functional Kinds: A Skeptical Look." Synthese, 192(12), 3915-3942.
(2014) Buckner, C. "The Semantic Problem(s) with Research on Animal Mindreading." Mind & Language, 29(5), 566-589.
(2013a) Murdock, J., Buckner, C., & Allen, C. "Evaluating Dynamic Ontologies." Communications in Computer and Information Science, 272, 258-275. Springer Berlin-Heidelberg.
(2013b) Buckner, C. "Morgan’s Canon, Meet Hume’s Dictum: Avoiding Anthropofabulation in Cross-Species Comparisons." Biology & Philosophy, 28(5), 853-871.
(2013c) Buckner, C. "In Search of Balance: Essay Review of Povinelli’s World without Weight." Biology & Philosophy, 28(1), 145-152.
(2011a) Buckner, C. "Two Approaches to the Distinction between Cognition and Mere Association." International Journal for Comparative Psychology, 24(1), 1-35.
(2011b) Buckner, C., Niepert, N., & Allen, C. "From Encyclopedia to Ontology: Toward Dynamic Representation of the Discipline of Philosophy." Synthese 182(2), 205-233.
(2010) Weinberg, J., Gonnerman, C., Buckner, C., & Alexander, A. (Equal contributions). "Are Philosophers Expert Intuiters?" Philosophical Psychology, 23(3), 331-355. (Reprinted in Experimental Philosophy and Its Critics, eds. Horvath, J. & Grundmann, T., Routledge.)