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“Beyond Error Correction” Frontiers in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00423 September, 2012 (with Paco Calvo and Emma Martin)
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Read MoreSpring 2013: Metaphysics
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Read More“Borders,” in Didier Fassin, ed., A Companion to Moral Anthropology, pp. 540-557. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. (with Josiah Heyman) 2012
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Read MoreWhat is a Model, Why People Don’t Trust Them, and Why They Should. In Negotiating Our Future: Living scenarios for Australia to 2050, Australian Academy of Science (with Boschetti F, Fulton E.A., Bradbury, R.H.)
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Read MoreThinking about Pain in Hell; Identifying Qualia Across Possible Worlds. In ‘Southwest Philosophical Studies.’ Vol 32, 1-12
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Read MoreHow Computational Models Predict the Behavior of Complex Systems, in ‘Foundations of Science’, 2012 (with Fabio Boschetti)
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Read MorePhilosophy TV (philostv.com) with Paul Humphreys, Discussion of Emergent Properties in Philosophy and Science
A property is said to be emergent if it arises from but is not reducible to some fundamental property (or set of properties). There is a wide range of properties that might conceivably be emergent; consciousness is the textbook example, which might explain why philosophers of mind are responsible for some of the most fully developed treatments…
Read MoreComplexity and the Laws of Nature, European Conference on Complex Systems 2010
An Introduction to Emergence, Arrabida 2009.
Novel Properties Generated by Interacting Computational Systems (with Fabio Boschetti) in “Complex Systems” vol. 20, 2 pp 151-164 (2011)
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