Christopher Cherniak
Christopher G. Cherniak | |
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| Born | May 5, 1945 |
| Died | March 13, 2025 (aged 79) Washington, D.C., US |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Harvard College University of Oxford University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | Beliefs and logical abilities (1977) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Tufts University University of Maryland, College Park |
Christopher George Cherniak (May 5, 1945 – March 13, 2025) was an American philosopher who specialized in epistemology and the philosophy of neuroscience. He was a long-time member of the University of Maryland Philosophy Department. Cherniak's research trajectory started in theory of knowledge and led into computational neuroanatomy and genomics. The underlying linkage between the areas concerns models of the agent: The work began with more realistic, bounded-resource models of rationality. From this epistemology in turn stemmed a research program concerning optimal-wiring models of global brain and genome anatomy, a structuralist approach.