The following "academic family tree", listing Hector-Neri Castañeda's
Ph.D. students, their students (i.e., Castañeda's "grandstudents"), etc.,
is, no doubt, an incomplete and inaccurate list. Anyone reading
this document is encouraged to send corrections and/or additional
information to the compiler.
Hector-Neri Castañeda wrote his Ph.D. dissertation in philosophy,
"The Logical Structure of Moral Reasoning", under the
direction of Wilfrid Sellars at the University of Minnesota, graduating
in June 1954. (Interestingly, the family tree stops with Sellars, since
Sellars's highest academic degree was not a Ph.D., but
an M.A. in philosophy from State
University of New York at Buffalo, under the direction of Marvin Farber. See
Sellars 1975 for details.)
Following is a chronological list of
Castañeda's Ph.D. students,
his grandstudents, his great-grandstudents, and, in at least one case, his
great-great-grandstudent(!);
dates given are those of graduation.
1970
Jerome Gellman, "Non-Existence,
Predication, and Anselm's Ontological Argument", Department of Philosophy, Wayne
State University. Currently, Professor,
Department of Philosophy, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,
Beer-sheva, Israel.
1971, September
John Hugo Dreher, "A Study of Human Action", Department of Philosophy, Indiana University. Currently,
Associate Professor, School of Philosophy, and Associate Dean, Graduate
School, University of Southern California, Los
Angeles, CA, USA.
1975
James Newby,
"The Problem of Validation", School of Philosophy, University of
Southern California.
1976
Gilbert L. Shoham,
"The Semantic Theory of John Locke", School of Philosophy, University
of Southern California. Currently, Lecturer, Department of
Philosophy, University of Missouri-Kansas City.
1986
Margaret Dell Jewett,
"The Role of Moral Feeling in Kantian
Ethics", School of Philosophy, University of Southern California.
Retired.
1972, December
Thomas Raymond Williams, "The Ideal Observer Theory in Ethics",
Department of Philosophy, Indiana University. Currently,
Professor and Chair,
Department of Philosophy, Carroll College, Waukesha, WI, USA.
1974, January
Donald Elmer Nute, "Identification and Demonstrative Reference",
Department of Philosophy, Indiana
University
(dissertation defended in 1973; degree awarded in 1974).
Currently,
Professor and Head, Deparment of Philosophy, and Director, Artificial
Intelligence Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.
1986
Lundy Michael Lewis, "The Ontology, Syntax, and Computability of
Deontic Logic", Department of Philosophy, University of
Georgia. Currently,
research scientist,
Cabletron Systems,
Rochester, NH, USA, and a part-time teacher
of computer science courses at several colleges in the area.
1995
Xiaochang Yu, "Deontic Logic with Defeasible Detachment", Department of Philosophy, University of
Georgia. Currently,
Systems Librarian,
Virginia
Commonwealth University,
Norfolk, VA,
USA.
1996
Hong-Gee Kim, "Perspectival Cognition and Knowledge
Representation", Department of Philosophy, University of
Georgia. Currently,
programmer,
College of
Veterinary Medicine,
University of Georgia,
Athens,
GA, USA.
1976, June
Thomas Michael McKinsey, "The Reference of Proper Names: A Critical
Essay in the Philosophy of Language", Department of
Philosophy, Indiana University.
Currently, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Wayne State University,
Detroit, MI, USA.
1985
Patrick Francken, "Noncausal Connections and the Nature of
Events", Department of Philosophy, Wayne State
University. Currently, Instructor, Department of Philosophy, Illinois
State University, Normal, IL, USA.
1993
David Shier, "Russellian Non-Parallelism: Direct Reference
Without Anti-Individualism", Department of Philosophy, Wayne State
University. Currently, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy,
Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA.
1997
Ann-Marie Anchustegui, "Qualitative Content and the Mind-Body
Problem", Department of Philosophy, Wayne State
University. Currently, Adjunct Faculty, Department of Philosophy, Wayne State
University.
1976, August
William Joseph Rapaport, "Intentionality and the Structure of Existence",
Department of Philosophy, Indiana University. Currently, Associate
Professor, Department of Computer Science, and Adjunct Professor,
Department of Philosophy, State University of New York at Buffalo,
Buffalo, NY, USA.
1990
Janyce M. Wiebe, "Recognizing Subjective Sentences: A Computational
Investigation of Narrative Text", Department of Computer Science, State
University of New York at Buffalo. Currently, Associate Professor,
Department of Computer Science,
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
1995
Rebecca Bruce, "Statistical Method For Word-Sense
Disambiguation", Department of Computer Science, New Mexico
State University. Currently, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science,
University of North Carolina at Asheville.
1998
Ted Pedersen,
"Learning Probabalistic Models of Word Sense Disambiguation",
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA.
1991
Rohini K. Srihari,
"Extracting Visual Information from Text:
Using Captions to Label Faces in Newspaper Photographs",
Department of Computer Science,
State University of New York at Buffalo.
Currently, Associate Professor,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
State University of New York at Buffalo.
1995
Giovanni Seni,
"Large Vocabulary Recognition of On-Line Handwritten Cursive Words",
Department of Computer Science,
State University of New York at Buffalo.
Currently, Research Scientist, Motorola-Lexicus, Palto Alto, CA, USA.
1997
Rajiv Chopra,
"An Architecture for Exploiting Qualitative, Scene-Specific Context in
High-Level Computer Vision",
Department of Computer Science,
State University of New York at Buffalo.
Currently, Senior Member of Technical Staff,
Oracle Corp., Nashua, NH, USA.
1998
Kripa Sundar,
"Drawing on Linguistic Context to Improve Word Recognition
in Noisy Domains",
Department of Computer Science,
State University of New York at Buffalo.
Currently with Viewlogic Corp., Boston, MA.
2001
Aibing Rao,
"An Integrated Theory of Image Database Modeling, Indexing, and
Content-Based Retrieval",
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
State University of New York at Buffalo.
1994
Karen Ehrlich, "Automatic Vocabulary Expansion through Narrative
Context", Department of Computer Science, State
University of New York at Buffalo. Currently, consulting computational
linguist, Apple Aid, Inc., Williamsville, NY, USA.
Robin Hill, "Issues of Semantics in a Semantic Network Representation
of
Belief", Department of Computer Science, State
University of New York at Buffalo. Currently, Visiting Assistant
Professor,
Department of Computer Science, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY,
USA.
1978, March
Tomis Everett Kapitan, "Foundations for a Theory of Propositional Form,
Implication, Alethic Modality, and Generalization", Department of Philosophy, Indiana University
(dissertation defended in 1977; degree awarded in 1978).
Currently,
Professor,
Department of Philosophy,
Northern Illinois University,
DeKalb, IL, USA.
1982, September
Ricardo Juan Idefonso Gomez, "Kant's
Pre-Transcendental Conception of Science", Indiana University.
Currently, Professor, Department of Philosophy, California State
University,
Los Angeles, CA, USA.
1986, May
Kathleen Ann Gill, "A Theory of Events", Department of Philosophy,
Indiana University. Currently, Professor, Department of Philosophy,
St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN, USA.
Alejandro Ibanez Herrera, "Leibniz on Existence", Department of
Philosophy,
Indiana University. Currently,
Investigator,
Instituto de Investigaciones Filosoficas,
Ciudad Universitaria,
Mexico, D.F. Mexico.
1986, August
Francesco Orilia, "Natural Language Semantics and Guise Theory",
Department of Philosophy,
Indiana University. Currently,
Ricercatore (Assistant Professor),
Dipartimento di Filosofia e Scienze Umane,
Università di Macerata, Macerata, Italy.
1986, December
Robert Allan Morris, "A `Complementarity Thesis' for Doxastic Truth",
Department of Philosophy,
Indiana University. Currently,
Associate Professor,
Computer Science Program,
Florida Institute of Technology,
Melbourne, FL,
USA.
1995
Daniel J. Carreira, III, "Diagnostic Models
Based on Projection", Department of Computer Science, Florida Institute
of Technology. Currently,
Principal Engineer,
Elcotel Inc.,
Sarasota, FL,
USA.
Todd Paul Lehman, "Believable Conflict Management for
Decentralized
Intelligent Systems", Department of Computer Science, Florida Institute
of Technology. Currently,
Assistant Professor and Department Head,
Department of Computer and Information Systems and Mathematics,
Goldey-Beacom College,
Wilmington, DE,
USA.
1987, August
Priyedarshi Jetli, "The Origins of a Realist Conception of
Relations in Plato's Phaedo", Department of Philosophy,
Indiana University. Currently, Reader (Associate Professor), Department
of Philosophy,
University of Delhi, Delhi, India.
2003
Ajay Verma, "Emancipation from Method: Critique of Modernism and
Postmodernism", University of Delhi, Delhi, India.
2012
Ravi Mehta, "The 'Meaning of Life' Question: A Critique of the
Emerging Philosophical Explanations", University of Mumbai, Mumbai,
India.
1989, June
Ana H. Marostica, "Peirce's Conceptions of Truth: A Tychist
Approach", Department of Philosophy, Indiana University.
Currently,
Professor,
Facultad de Ciencias Económicas,
Secretaria de Investigacion y Doctorado,
Universidad de Buenos Aires,
Buenos Aires,
Argentina.
1989, December
Adriano Palma,
"Indexicality", Department of Philosophy, Indiana
University.
Currently,
Associate Researcher, C.R.E.A., École Polytechnique, Paris,
France, and Associate Professor, Institute of Philosophy, National
Chung Cheng
University, Taiwan, R.O.C.
1990, June
Jose-Manuel Favila, "Intentionality, Mental Representation, and
Intentional Action", Department of Philosophy, Indiana University.
Currently,
Instituto de Investigaciones Filosoficas,
Ciudad Universitaria,
Mexico, D.F. Mexico.