Keith Douglas' Web Page
| About me | Find out who I am and what I do. |
| My resumé | A copy of my resumé and other documentation about my education and work experience for employers and the curious. |
| Reviews, theses, articles, presentations | A collection of papers from my work, categorized and annotated. |
| Current research projects | What I am currently working on, including some non-research material. |
| Interesting people | People professionally "connected" to me in some way. |
| Interesting organizations | Organizations I am "connected" to. (Some rather loosely.) |
| Intellectual/professional influences | Influences on my work, including an organization chart. Here you can also buy many good books on philosophy and other subjects via amazon.com. I have included brief reviews of hundreds of books. |
| Professional resources | Research sources, amazon.com associates programs, etc. |
| What is the philosophy of computing? | A brief introduction to my primary professional interest. |
| My intellectual heroes | A partial list of important people. Limited to the dead. |
| My educational philosophy | As a sometime teacher I've developed one. Includes book resources. |
List of Courses
The following is a list of every course I have taken through a university. I have converted all the credit/"unit" amounts to approximately the same common measure (McGill regular session credits) for means of comparison. I have placed the courses in approximately chronological order from oldest to most recent. For "themed" courses, I have placed the theme after the official course name.
|
Title
|
Department
|
Institution
|
Credits
|
Level |
| Introduction to Deductive Logic | Philosophy | McGill | 3 | 200 |
| Problems in Analytic Philosophy | Philosophy | McGill | 3 | 200 |
| Perception | Psychology | McGill | 3 | 200 |
| Introduction to Computing I | Computer Science | McGill | 3 | 200 |
| Contemporary Moral Issues: Abortion, Euthanasia, Punishment | Philosophy | McGill | 3 | 200 |
| 19th Century Philosophy | Philosophy | McGill | 3 | 300 |
| Ancient Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy: Ancient Philosophy of Chemistry | Philosophy | McGill | 3 | 400 |
| Introduction to Computing II | Computer Science | McGill | 3 | 200 |
| Principles of Assembly Languages | Computer Science | McGill | 3 | 200 |
| Introduction to the Study of Language | Linguistics | McGill | 3 | 200 |
| Philosophical Fundamentals: Time and Free Will | Philosophy | McGill | 3 | 300 |
| 17th Century Philosophy: Experiments and Empircism | Philosophy | McGill | 3 | 300 |
| Existentialism | Philosophy | McGill | 3 | 300 |
| Metaphysics: Innate Ideas | Philosophy | McGill | 3 | 400 |
| Programming Languages and Paradigms | Computer Science | McGill | 3 | 300 |
| Intermediate Logic | Philosophy | McGill | 3 | 300 |
| Ethics I | Philosophy | McGill | 3 | 300 |
| Philosophy of Science I | Philosophy | McGill | 3 | 300 |
| Sociology of Religion | Sociology | McGill | 3 | 300 |
| Cognition | Psychology | McGill | 3 | 200 |
| Introductory German | German Studies | McGill | 6 | 200 |
| Philosophy of Mind | Philosophy | McGill | 3 | 300 |
| Philosophy of Social Science II | Philosophy | McGill | 3 | 400 |
| Special Topics in Philosophy: Philosophy and Psychoanalysis | Philosophy | McGill | 3 | 500 |
| Tutorials: Democritean Atomism | Philosophy | McGill | 6 | 400 |
| Human Behaviour and the Brain | Psychology | McGill | 3 | 300 |
| Files and Databases | Computer Science | McGill | 3 | 400 |
| Plato: Platonic Metaphysics | Philosophy | McGill | 3 | 300 |
| Epistemology: Philosophy of Perception | Philosophy | McGill | 3 | 400 |
| Philosophy of Science II | Philosophy | McGill | 3 | 400 |
| Topics in the History of Philosophy: Mathematics, Metaphysics and Morals from Descartes to Kant | Philosophy | McGill | 3 | 400 |
| Introduction to Database Systems | Computer Science | McGill | 3 | 400 |
| Nonclassical Logics | Philosophy | UBC | 3 | 300 (*) |
| Scientific Ethos | Philosophy / English | UBC | 3 | 500 |
| Theory of Computing | Computer Science | UBC | 3 | 400 |
| Topics in Moral Philosophy: Free Will and Determinism | Philosophy | UBC | 3 | 500 |
| Ethical Issues in Public Policy: Ethics for Robots | Philosophy | UBC | 3 | 500 |
| Philosophy of Mathematics: Philosophy of Set Theory | Philosophy | UBC | 3 | 500 |
| M.A. Thesis Research: A Special Davidsonian Theory of Events | Philosophy | UBC | 12 | 600 |
| Brain and Behaviour | Psychology | UBC | 6 | 300 |
| Minds, Machines and Knowledge | Philosophy | CMU | 4 | 600 (**) |
| Logic and Computation | Philosophy | CMU | 4 | 600 (**) |
| Fundamental Structures of Computer Science I | Computer Science | CMU | 4 | 200 |
| Computability and Incompleteness | Philosophy | CMU | 4 | 600 (**) |
| Probability and Artificial Intelligence | Philosophy | CMU | 4 | 600 (**) |
| Proseminar | Philosophy | CMU | 2 | 600 |
| Fundamental Structures of Computer Science II | Computer Science | CMU | 4 | 200 |
| Introduction to Computer Systems | Computer Science | CMU | 4 | 200 |
| Directed Reading: History of Computability | Philosophy | CMU | 6 | 900 |
| Directed Reading: Issues in Multimedia Authoring | Philosophy | CMU | 4 | 900 |
| Computer Architecture | Computer Engineering | CMU | 4 | 300 |
| Directed Reading: Super-Turing Computation | Philosophy | CMU | 4 | 900 |
| Thesis Seminar | Philosophy | CMU | 4 | 800 (***) |
| Epistemology: Bayesian Epistemology | Philosophy | CMU | 4 | 800 (***) |
| Directed Reading: Super-Turing Computation II | Philosophy | CMU | 2 | 900 |
| Network Infrastructures I | Information Technology | McGill | 8 | N/A (****) |
| Network Infrastructures II | Information Technology | McGill | 8 | N/A (****) |
| Total | 212 |
* : The lectures presented in this course were at the 300 level, though the grading and evaluation in the case of the graduate students in the class (myself included) was at the 500 level.
**: The CMU courses indicated were joint 300/600 level courses. Students taking the 600 level version did additional work or further topics, etc.
***: The CMU courses indicated were joint 500/800 level courses. (No difference that I know of existed, other than fulfilling bureaucratic requirements. Both were the equivalent of final year honours undergraduate/graduate level courses.)
****: These courses are offered through the McGill Centre for Continuing Education and as such have no level attached.