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William J. Rapaport
Summary
William Joseph Rapaport is a North American philosopher who is an Associate Professor Emeritus of the University at Buffalo.
Philosophical work
Rapaport has done research and written extensively on intentionality and artificial intelligence. He has research interests in computer science, artificial intelligence (AI), computational linguistics, cognitive science, logic and mathematics, and published many scientific articles on them.
While a philosophy graduate student at Indiana University in 1972, he concocted the sentence: "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo". Throughout his career he developed this theme, and discussed it extensively.
His early work on nonexistent objects was influenced by Alexius Meinong.
Rapaport has written on the field of intentionality, influencing scientists and writers including Daniel Dennett, Héctor-Neri Castañeda (who was his doctoral advisor) and John Searle (with whom he disagrees).
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