Draft:Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science
Research center at Rutgers University
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The Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, commonly referred to as RuCCS, is an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to the study of cognitive science at Rutgers University–New Brunswick.[1] It was launched in 1991 on Busch campus[1] with Zenon Pylyshyn as director.[2] Its founding was part of a successful effort to recruit Jerry Fodor to Rutgers, whose arrival established Rutgers as a premier center for the study of philosophy of mind and cognitive science.[2][3] There are over 70 affiliated faculty across psychology, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, neuroscience, and biomedical engineering.[4] It offers an undergraduate major and minor, alongside a certificate for graduate students.[1]
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RuCCS is consistently ranked as ranked first or second internationally in philosophy of cognitive science.[5] The center has published foundational research in optimality theory,[6] visual indexing theory,[7] numerical cognition,[8][9] Language of Thought,[10] and experimental philosophy.[11] Faculty affiliated with the center have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of Canada, and the Cognitive Science Society.[12][13][14][15] Five faculty have been awarded the Jean Nicod Prize, awarded annually to a leading philosophically oriented cognitive scientist: Jerry Fodor (1993), Zenon Pylyshyn (2004), Stephen Stich (2007), Frances Egan (2021), and Elisabeth Camp (2026).[16] Research affiliated with the center has been published in Nature, Science, Cognition, Psychological Review, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[6][7][10][17][18][19]
Notable faculty
- Mark Baker[20]
- Elisabeth Camp
- Frances Egan[21]
- Jerry Fodor[22]
- C. Randy Gallistel
- Rochel Gelman
- Lila Gleitman[21]
- Alvin Goldman[21]
- Jane Grimshaw
- Béla Julesz[23]
- Ernest Lepore[24]
- Alan M. Leslie
- Michael Lewis[20]
- Brian McLaughlin[2][20]
- Alan Prince[21]
- Zenon Pylyshyn[25]
- Susanna Schellenberg
- Stephen Stich[21]
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