•  516
    Richard Smyth, "Reading Peirce Reading" (review)
    Australasian Journal of Philosophy 80 (3). 2002.
    Book Information Reading Peirce Reading. By Richard A. Smyth. Rowman and Littlefield. Maryland. 1997. Pp. ix + 327. Hardback, US$64.50. Paperback, US$24.95.
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    The word “hacker” has an interesting double meaning: one vastly more widespread connotation of technological mischief, even criminality, and an original meaning amongst the tech savvy as a term of highest approbation. Both meanings, however, share the idea that hackers possess a superior ability to manipulate technology according to their will (and, as with God, this superior ability to exercise will is a source of both mystifying admiration and fear). This book mainly concerns itself with the f…Read more
  •  19
    Integrating Cyc and Wikipedia: Folksonomy meets rigorously defined common-sense
    with Olena Medelyan
    Proceedings of Wikipedia and AI Workshop at the AAAI-08 Conference. Chicago, US, July 12 2008. 2008.
    Integration of ontologies begins with establishing mappings between their concept entries. We map categories from the largest manually-built ontology, Cyc, onto Wikipedia articles describing corresponding concepts. Our method draws both on Wikipedia’s rich but chaotic hyperlink structure and Cyc’s carefully defined taxonomic and common-sense knowledge. On 9,333 manual alignments by one person, we achieve an F-measure of 90%; on 100 alignments by six human subjects the average agreement of the me…Read more
  •  152
    Owen Holland, "Machine Consciousness" (review)
    Metapsychology Reviews Online 2004 (Sep): 1-5. 2004.
  •  644
    Much mainstream analytic epistemology is built around a sceptical treatment of modality which descends from Hume. The roots of this scepticism are argued to lie in Hume’s (nominalist) theory of perception, which is excavated, studied and compared with the very different (realist) theory of perception developed by Peirce. It is argued that Peirce’s theory not only enables a considerably more nuanced and effective epistemology, it also (unlike Hume’s theory) does justice to what happens when we ap…Read more
  •  225
    Huw Price
    In Graham Oppy N. N. Trakakis (ed.), A Companion to Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand, Monash University Publishing. 2010.
    A review of the life and work of the Australian philosopher Huw Price
  •  39
    Peirce, Meaning, and the Semantic Web
    Semiotica 2013 (193): 119-143. 2013.
    This paper seeks an explanation for the challenges faced by Semantic Web developers in achieving their vision, compared to the staggering near-instantaneous success of the World Wide Web. To this end it contrasts two broad philosophical understandings of meaning and argues that the choice between them carries real consequences for how developers attempt to engineer the Semantic Web. The first is Rene Descartes’ ‘private’, static account of meaning (arguably dominant for the last 400 years in Wes…Read more
  •  390
    Catnesses
    In Steven D. Hales (ed.), What Philosophy Can Tell You about Your Dog, Open Court. 2008.
    An introduction to cat metaphysics