Yuri Balashov (Ph.D. University of Notre Dame) has a background in physics as well as philosophy. He is currently working on a new interdisciplinary research project at the interface of philosophy of language, computational linguistics, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. His goal is to explore the uneasy, complicated relationship between human and machine translation. Dr. Balashov's hobbies include (serious) music and skiing.
Recent publications include:
"The Boundaries of Meaning: A Case Study on Neural Machine Translation," Inquiry (2022)
"The Translator’s Extended Mind," Minds & Machines (2020)
"Common Sense and Relativistic Supercoincidence," in Scientific Challenges to Common Sense Philosophy (Routledge, 2020)
"On the Invariance and Intrinsicality of Four-Dimensional Shapes in Special Relativity," Analysis (2014)
Persistence and Spacetime (Oxford University Press, 2010)
Research
- Philosophy of Science/AI
- Philosophy of Language/Linguistics
- Translation Studies
- Metaphysics
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