Cognitive Science Faculty - Occidental College

Carolyn Brighouse
Associate Professor
B.A., University of Liverpool
M.A., Ph.D., University of Southern California
Phone: 323-259-2588
Email: brighous@oxy.edu

Professor Brighouse’s interests include philosophy of science, philosophy of space and time, and philosophy of physics more generally. She teaches some classes in these areas, but also teaches a course on philosophy and science fiction as well as other introductory philosophy courses.

Alan Knoerr
Associate Professor
B.A., Oberlin College
Sc.M., Ph.D., Brown University
Phone: 323-259-2912
Email: knoerr@oxy.edu
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Alan Knoerr is an applied mathematician who teaches a broad range of courses in mathematics; he also teaches in the cognitive science program. His graduate work was in pattern theory, but his recent research is on dynamics and optimization.

Diana Linden
Professor
A.B., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Phone: 323-259-2573
Email: linden@oxy.edu

Ramin Naimi
Associate Professor
B.S., University of California, Los Angeles
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Phone: 323-259-2550
Email:rnaimi@oxy.edu
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Ramin Naimi is a topologist with research interests in low dimensional topology, knot theory, and topological graph theory. He teaches calculus, linear algebra, geometry, topology, computability, logic, mathematical modeling, and introduction to cognitive science.

Andrew Shtulman
Assistant Professor
B.A.,Princeton University
Ph.D., Harvard University
Phone: 323-259-2633
Email: shtulman@oxy.edu
Homepage: http://faculty.oxy.edu/shtulman
Lab: Thinking and Reasoning Lab

Andrew Shtulman is a cognitive psychologist who studies conceptual development and conceptual change. His research focuses on both the acquisition of domain-specific concepts and the development of domain-general inference strategies.

Saul Traiger
Professor
B.A., State University of New York at Binghamton
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Phone: 323-259-2901
Email: traiger@oxy.edu
Homepage: http://faculty.oxy.edu/traiger/

Saul Traiger teaches courses in the foundations of cognitive science, seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophy, contemporary epistemology and the philosophy of mind. His research includes work on the historical and conceptual foundations of cognitive science, and the philosophy of David Hume.