Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor, Parmly Hearing Institute
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1988
Phone: 312-508-2301
Vita (Adobe Acrobat Format)
My interests in speech perception focus on acoustic-phonetic factors in the perception of speech. I have published on auditory-visual influences on phonemic restoration, the perceptual impact of fundamental frequency declination, and the biological basis of speech. At the Parmly Hearing Institute, I am currently examining questions about the form in which speech information gets stored and accessed. There is now evidence that we encode specific vocal characteristics of individual talkers, and I am examining the extent of the listener’s sensitivity through the repetition priming of a particular talker's distinct utterance of the same word.
Books
Model Knowledge: Epistemic Excellence and the Psychology of Human Judgment (with Michael
Bishop). New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
Measuring the Intentional World: Realism, Naturalism, and Quantitative Methods in the
Behavioral Sciences. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. (Named a "1998
Outstanding Academic Book" by Choice.) Paperback February 2003.
Articles
To appear. Biological Specializations for Speech: What Can the Animals Tell Us? Current
Directions in Psychological Science.
2002. Scientific Explanation and the Sense of Understanding. Philosophy of Science 69,
(2), 212-233. http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/PHILSCI/journal/issues/v69n2/690204/690204.web.pdf
2002. 50 Years of Successful Predictive Modeling Should be Enough: Lessons for the
Philosophy of Science. Philosophy of Science 68 (Proceedings): S197-S208 (with Michael
Bishop).
2001. The Biological Basis of Speech: What to Infer from Talking to the Animals.
Psychological Review, 108, (3), 523-549.
Solicited Talks
(2003, April 18). "Basic Needs, Welfare, and the Science of Happiness". Northern
Illinois University Philosophy Department Colloquium Series.
(2003, March 27). University-wide lecture at Columbia University, NY, for the University
Seminar on Language and Cognition (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/psychology/dept/events/usems.html),
held jointly with another series, the University Seminar on Behavioral and Cognitive
Neuroscience (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/psychology/terrace99/univseminar.html).
Minutes of my talk can be found at http://www.columbia.edu/~remez/27apr03.pdf
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