Areas of interest
Research Interests:
Use of connectionist (neural) nets in acquisition of syntactic and semantic knowledge
Philosophical Implications of Artificial Intelligence
The Combinatorial Limitations of Neural Networks
Teaching Interests:
Computational Cognitive Science
Artificial Intelligence
Social Implications of Computers
Education
- Ph.D. Philosophy, University of British Columbia, Canada, 1973
- M.Sc. Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada, 1984
- B.A. Philosophy, University of Virginia, United States, 1967
Biography
Students please note: Professor Hadley is retired and is not supervising any new students.
Courses
This instructor is currently not teaching any courses.
Selected Recent Publications
- Hadley, R.F. (2010) "The Essential Role of Consciousness in Mathematical Cognition", Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vol. 17.
- Hadley, R.F. (2009) "The Problem of Rapid Variable Creation", Neural Computation, Vol. 21, pp. 510-532.
- Hadley, R.F. (2008) "Consistency, Turing Computability and Goedel's First Incompleteness Theorem", Minds and Machines Vol. 18(1), pp. 1-15.
- Hadley, R.F. (2007) "Synchronous vs. Conjunctive Binding: A False Dichotomy?", Connection Science , Vol. 19(2), pp. 111-130.
- Hadley, R.F. (2006) "Neural Circuits, Matrices, and Conjunctive Binding", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol. 29.
For more information visit www.cs.sfu.ca/~hadley/publications.html.