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Teaching 2008-09 Research and Scholarship
Level 3 Non-Honours Kant, Kinaesthesia and Technology
Consciousness and Cognition (2RAW) Machine Consciousness
Space, Cyberspace and the Self (2RFW) Agency and Embodiment
Senior Honours Bodily Imagination and Consciousness
Kant's EpistemologyKant's Transcendental Psychology and Artificial Consciousness
Senior Honours ConsciousnessThe Ontology of Digital Objects
Teaching & Technology
Ethics and Artificial Intelligence / Artificial Life
Animal Minds
Miscellanea

Centre for Technology and Phenomenological Research

The primary aim of the Centre for Technology and Phenomenological Research is to conduct and facilitate research into the nature of subjective experience in itself, but also into how it is influenced and shaped by the dual necessities of intersubjectivity and technology.

Book

Computation, Information, Cognition -- The Nexus and The Liminal

is a book of essays selected from ECAP05 and edited by me and Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic. It draws together a number of important strands in contemporary approaches to the philosophical and scientific questions that emerge when dealing with the issues of computing, information, cognition and the conceptual issues that arise at their intersections. [ISBN: 9781847180902]

Teaching Award

In 2005/06 I was awarded a University of Glasgow Teaching Excellence Award.

European Computing and Philosophy Conferences (E-CAP)

Director 2003-2008

E-CAP is the European branch of The International Association for Computing and Philosophy which exists to promote scholarly dialogue on all aspects of the computational turn and the use of computers in the service of philosophy.

The University of Glasgow hosted the first E-CAP conference in 2003; the second was hosted by the Universitá di Pavia, Italy in 2004; the third by the Mälardalens Högskola, Västerås, Sweden in 2005; the fourth by the Dragvoll campus of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway in 2006; the fifth by the University of Twente, The Netherlands, 2007, and the sixth E-CAP 2008 was hosted by Professeur Jean Sallantin of Le Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier (LIRMM) in June 2008.



Other Things

Currently we have two cats Millie and Basil; and here's a picture of the three of us.

Here is the gloriously handsome Mr Finn: One, Two, and Three who died on the 18th July 2001.

I like Elizabethan drama (Shakespeare, of course) and poetry, especially Fulke Greville and Richard Lovelace's The Snayl. And then onwards through the age of Dryden to Restoration drama and the Prosody of the Seventeenth Century.

I enjoy reading Dickens and am particularly fond of Bleak House, Great Expectations and Pickwick Papers.

I also like Wallace Stevens and e. e. cummings.

If I had an avatar, it might be this chap.

And the best song ever from the European Song Contest: Vicky Leandros singing "L'amour Est Bleu" (1967) . Luxembourg should have won!

Here are some of my favourite photographs: white rose in my Mum's garden, San Francisan limpets and barnacles, a flower from the Botanic Gardens in Oulu, Finland.

Oh, and this is me and little me.

And lastly, for anyone who reads down this far, you might be interested to hear of my adopted religion, Pastafarianism and Pastafarianism on Wiki.

PGP: my key

... and finally ...

My Contact Details

Office Hour for 2008/2009:

I will be free for student consultation on

Tuesdays (in term time) from 2pm - 3.30pm.

At other times you can contact me by email (probably the most efficient method) at


s.stuart@philosophy.arts.gla.ac.uk

... or by snail mail at:


Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute,
Room 503, 11 University Gardens
University of Glasgow,
Glasgow,
G12 8QQ

Tel.: 0141 330 5046