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Philosophy

Dr. Cameron Buckner

Currently Teaching

  • PHI 3681: Ethics, Data, and Technology
  • PHI 4930: Philosophy of Cognitive Science

Office Hours (Spring)

  • Tuesdays 12:45pm - 1:45pm
  • Thursdays 12:45pm - 1:45pm

Areas of Specialization

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

Curriculum Vitae

Contact Information

Email: cameron.buckner
Office: Griffin-Floyd 330B
Website

Monograph

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.)