Ned Block

Famous for presenting an argument against the Turing Test as a Test of Intelligence in a paper entitled ''Psychologism and Behaviourism'' by using a thought experiment in which he suggests the creation of a computer which has come to be known as Blockhead . Block also tried to develop a Counterexample to Functionalism ; there could exist a System which has the same functional states as a human but no consciousness.

He has been a judge at the Loebner Prize contest, to determine if a conversant is a computer or human, in the tradition of the Turing Test.

POSITIONS

#Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at New York University (NYU) 1996 - Current
#Chair of the Philosophy Program At Massachusetts Institute Of Technology (MIT) - ?.....- 1996
#Fellow of the American Academy Of Arts And Sciences
# Guggenheim Fellow
#Senior Fellow of the Center For The Study Of Language And Information
# Sloan Foundation Fellow
#Recipient of Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies
#Recipient of Fellowship from the National Science Foundation .
#Past President of the Society For Philosophy And Psychology
#Past Chair of the MIT Press Cognitive Science Board of Syndics
#Past President of the Association For The Scientific Study Of Consciousness
#Co-editor of ''The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical Debates'' (MIT Press, 1997).

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