Instructor

Nancy Salay
Office: Watson Hall Room 322
E-mail: salay@queensu.ca
Phone: (613) 533.6000 ext. 77030

Message from the Instructor

Hello and welcome to PHIL 259, Critical Thinking. My name is Nancy Salay and I am your instructor for this session. Please feel free to call me Nancy, but if you are uncomfortable with this or find it too familiar, you may address me as Professor Salay or Dr. Salay. This is the first time the philosophy department is offering this class on-line so please bear with us as we explore the new technologies that we hope will make this on-line experience as interactive as possible.  Your comments and suggestions are always welcome.

My research interests are in the philosophy of cognitive science predominantly and I teach in both the Philosophy Department and the School of Computing. Recently I have founded an Institute  — still in its very fledgling stages — called ESC, Embodiment, Systems, and Complexity: Research Institute for Embodied Cognitive Science. If you’re interested in finding out more or attending some of our brown bag lunch sessions, please visit the website at www.escresearch.ca. 

Courses I’ve taught in the recent past include Philosophy of Psychology, Science and Society, Topics in Artificial Intelligence, Minds and Machines, and Logic. If you are interested in any of these areas or you have questions about our class, please feel free to drop by my during office hours for a chat. You will find me in Watson Hall 322. I’ll post my office hours on the website, but be sure to check for the current week before you come in — if something has come up and I can’t make it, I will post that information on the site.