{"id":21,"date":"2017-08-20T20:57:11","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T00:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2026-01-20T11:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T16:19:12","slug":"frontpage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Cruz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 16px;font-weight: 400\"><span class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.williams.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Williams College<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Professor and Chair of <span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 16px;font-weight: 400\"><span class=\"s3\"><a href=\"http:\/\/philosophy.williams.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Philosophy<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 16px;font-weight: 400\"><span class=\"s3\">Professor and Chair of\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 16px;font-weight: 400\"><span class=\"s3\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cogsci.williams.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cognitive Science<\/a><br \/>\nFaculty Fellow of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.williams.edu\/teaching-center\/\">Rice Center for Teaching<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">My general interests are in the philosophy of cognitive science, the nature of knowledge, and the mind\u2013body problem. I specialize in naturalized epistemology (<em>Contemporary Theories of Knowledge<\/em>, 2nd ed., with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_L._Pollock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Pollock<\/a>), the history of skepticism, philosophy of mind, embodied cognition, animal cognition, machine learning and neural networks, and cognitive development. Recently I have written on ethics and artificial intelligence, as well as on memorial sculpture in the former Yugoslavia. I am currently drafting <em>Making the Mind Legible<\/em>, a book on the history of explanation in cognitive science.<\/p>\n<p>Ph.D., University of Arizona (Philosophy &amp; Cognitive Science), 1999.<br \/>\nB.A., Williams College (Philosophy), 1991.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Williams College Professor and Chair of Philosophy Professor and Chair of\u00a0 Cognitive Science Faculty Fellow of the Rice Center for Teaching My general interests are in the philosophy of cognitive science, the nature of knowledge, and the mind\u2013body problem. I specialize in naturalized epistemology (Contemporary Theories of Knowledge, 2nd ed., with John Pollock), the history &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Joe Cruz&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":862,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/862"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":54,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}