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This dissertation project is a media archaeological inquiry into a long-term cultural dialectic between the rise of intelligent automata and the rise of Western discourses of Orientalism. I organize my analysis around the archetypal theme of the chess-playing machine, the Mechan…

A propositional attitude (PA) is a belief, desire, fear, etc., that x is the case. This dissertation addresses the question of the semantic content of a specific kind of PA-instance: an instance of a belief of the form all Fs are Gs. The belief that all bachelors are sports fans…

This creative project is a memoir of the year the author spent living in Iran and teaching at the University of Tehran during the period preceding the Iranian Revolution of 1979. The preliminary sections in the first chapter include a statement of purpose, a discussion of the si…