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Carol Cleland

Phone: (303) 492-7619
Email: cleland@colorado.edu.
Office: HLMS 282
Personal web page:  http://spot.Colorado.EDU/~cleland/.

CAROL CLELAND (Brown, Ph.D. 1981) Professor Cleland arrived at CU-Boulder in 1986, after having spent a year on a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University's Center for the Study of Language and Information.  She is a member of NASA's Institute for Astrobiology and CU's Institute for Cognitive Science.

Area of Interest:  Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science, and Philosophy of Logic.   Professor Cleland is particularly interested in causation, computation, and scientific methodology. She has written papers on causation, space and time, supervenience, events, standards of evidence in science, the Church-Turing Thesis, and effective procedures.

Current Research: Currently working on two books, The Search for Extraterrestial Life and The Concept of an Effective Procedure. She is also working on articles on the nature of life (Can "life" be defined?) and methodological problems in astrobiology.

 


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