Publications
Formal Philosophy; Five Questions
Books
(Edited with V. Hendricks) Automatic Press: London (2005)
A Computational Modeling Strategy for Levels
Article/Chapters
Rather than taking the ontological fundamentality of an ideal microphysics as a starting point, this
paper sketches an approach to the problem of...
Questions, Quantifiers and Quantum Physics: Essays on the Philosophy of Jaakko Hintikka
Books
(Edited with D. Kolak) Springer: Berlin, New York (2004)
Intuition and Philosophical Methodology
Article/Chapters
Intuition serves a variety of roles in contemporary philosophy. This paper provides a
historical discussion of the revival of intuition in the 1970s,...
Logic, Epistemology and the Unity of Science
Books
(Edited with S. Rahman and J. P. Van Bendegem) (eds.) Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht (2004)
Functionalism and Fallibility
Article/Chapters
Functionalism in the philosophy of mind rests on the claim that mental states are multiply
realizable; mental states can be realized by or instantiated...
Embodied Computation and The Autonomy of Psychology
Article/Chapters
Abstract How do we characterize the computational challenges facing a control system as it controls the
behavior of an agent? Part of the answer to...
Limiting Skepticism
Article/Chapters
For an agent to have some knowledge of some proposition, he or she must be able to eliminate all relevant possibilities of error. Furthermore, since...
Teleology in Biology: Haddox on some basic Principles of the Living World
Article/Chapters
While Jack Haddox’s mature philosophical work emphasizes humanistic themes and existential
concerns, his earliest major project in philosophy; his...
Review of Giandomenico Sica (ed.) What is Category Theory?
Article/Chapters
Giandomenico Sica’s volume is a collection of eleven papers on category theory by
philosophers, mathematicians, and mathematical physicists. In...
Towards a general description of physical invariance in category theory
Article/Chapters
Abstract
Invariance is one of the most important notions in applications of
mathematics. It is one of the key concepts in modern physics, is a compu-
tational...
Pattern-oriented analysis of communication flow: the study ofcicada barbara lusitanica
Article/Chapters
ABSTRACT
This paper provides a general perspective concerning
the study of flux of information in complex social
systems. The recognition of communicative...
Understanding the complexity of information processing tasks in vision
Article/Chapters
The basic presupposition of cognitive science is that mental life is more complicated (or complex) that it appears; there is more to the memory, attention,...
No mere formality
Article/Chapters
Philosophers have always tended to harbour some uncertainty about the goals, methods and achievements of the philosophical enterprise. This is as...
Wheres the Bridge? Epistemic logic and Epistemology
Article/Chapters
1. INTRODUCTION
Epistemic logic begins with the recognition that our everyday
talk about knowing and believing has some systematic features
that we...
Epistemic Logic
Article/Chapters
Epistemic logic gets its start with the recognition that expressions like ‘knows that’ or ‘believes that’ have systematic properties that...