Philosophical work
Rapaport has done research and written extensively on intentionality and artificial intelligence. He has research interests in computer science, artificial intelligence (AI), computational linguistics, cognitive science, logic and mathematics, and published many scientific articles on them. While a philosophy graduate student at Indiana University in 1972, he concocted the sentence: "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo". Throughout his career he developed this theme, and discussed it extensively. His early work on nonexistent objects was influenced by Alexius Meinong. Rapaport has clearly explained the field of intentionality, and his papers on the subject have influenced leading scientists and writers such as Daniel Dennett, Héctor-Neri Castañeda (his doctoral advisor)Academic Family Tree of Hector-Neri CastañedaOther activities
In June 1988, Rapaport compiled a list of restaurants in the Buffalo area to give attendees of an Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL meeting at University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, SUNY Buffalo. Now, the list is interactive and updated frequently with user reviews of restaurants. Rapaport and his wife Mary, with whom he has a son Michael, a member of the Division I bowling team at Colgate University, and who is frequently seen out and about with upcoming broadway star, Meredith Clark, are the principal donors to the Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center in Jamestown, NY. The Desilu Playhouse, located in the Rapaport Center, contains memorabilia and other vintage I Love Lucy items. He and his wife have also purchased and renovated Lucille Ball's childhood home in Celoron, New York.Books and articles
* ''Intentionality and the Structure of Existence'', unpublished Ph.D. Indiana University, 1976. * "Meinongian Theories and a Russellian Paradox", ''Noûs'', 12(2) (1978), pp. 153–80.References
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