Staff Members

Dr Catherine Legg

Role: Senior Lecturer Qualifications: BA(Hons) Melbourne, MA Monash, PhD A.N.U. Email: clegg@waikato.ac.nz Location: I4.03 Contact: 8440

Research Interests:

Research Interests include: philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology, American philosophy, logic, formal ontology, artificial intelligence, philosophy of science, Wittgenstein, semiotics.

Selected Publications:

PHILOSOPHY
“The Problem of the Essential Icon”. American Philosophical Quarterly (Fall 2008), pp. 207-232.

“Letting Reality Bite”. Symposium on Teaching Peirce to Undergraduates, Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, vol. 64, no. 2 (Spring 2008), pp. 208-212.

“Argument-Forms which Turn Invalid Over Infinite Domains: Physicalism as Supertask?” Contemporary Pragmatism vol. 5 no. 1 (June 2008), pp. 1-11.

“Making It Explicit and Clear: From ‘Strong’ to ‘Hyper-’ inferentialism in Brandom and Peirce”. Metaphilosophy January 2008, pp. 105-123.

“Catnesses”. What Philosophy Can Tell You About Your Cat, ed. Steven Hales (Open Court, 2008), pp. 229-238.

“The Meaning of Meaning-Fallibilism”. Axiomathes vol. 15, no. 2 (June 2005), pp. 293-318.

“This is Simply What I Do”. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research vol. 46, no. 1 (January 2003), pp. 58-80.

“Predication and the Problem of Universals”. Philosophical Papers, vol. 30, no.2 (December 2002), pp. 117-143.

“Extension, Intension and Dormitive Virtue”. Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, vol. 35 (Fall, 1999), pp. 654-77.

Review of Anne Freadman, “The Machinery of Talk: Charles Peirce and the Sign Hypothesis”. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 84, no. 4 (2006) pp. 642-645.


INFORMATION SCIENCE
"All You Can Eat" Ontology-Building: Feeding Wikipedia to Cyc" (with Samuel Sarjant, Michael Robinson and Olena Medelyan), IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Milan, Italy, September 16th 2009. **STOP PRESS: Awarded Best Student Paper for the conference**

"Mining Meaning from Wikipedia" (with Olena Medelyan, David Milne and Ian Witten), International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, vol. 67, no. 9, (Sep. 2009), pp. 716-754. For an earlier, longer version, see University of Waikato Working Paper, series ISSN 1177-777X.

“Integrating Cyc and Wikipedia: Folksonomy Meets Rigorously Defined Common-sense” (with Olena Medelyan). Proceedings, Workshop on Wikipedia and AI, Chicago AAAI08, Chicago, USA (July 2008). Research results

“Ontologies on The Semantic Web”. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, vol. 41 (2007), pp. 407-452.

Review of Douglas Thomas, “Hacker Culture”.Techné, vol 9, no. 2 (Winter 2005), pp. 151-4.

Review of Owen Holland (ed), “Machine Consciousness”. Metapsychology Reviews On-Line, Sep. 1st 2004.

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