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1212 Peirce's Deductive Logic: Its Development, Influence, and Philosophical SignificanceIn Cheryl Misak (ed.), The Cambridge companion to Peirce, Cambridge University Press. pp. 287. 2004.
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2If I look from the outside at the practices of a discipline—any discipline—and see some members declaring themselves to be upholders of one “ism,” or labeling others’ views as representatives of some other failed or flawed “ism,” then I would frankly form the suspicion that this is an immature profession, not quite developed. It has tendencies to fall into modes of discourse that are more characteristic of religious or political fealty and factionalism
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462The mathematical structure of the world: The world as graphJournal of Philosophy 94 (7): 329-358. 1997.
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70Preventive War and the Epistemological Dimension of the Morality of WarJournal of Military Ethics 5 (1): 32-54. 2006.This essay makes three claims about preventive war, which is demarcated from preemptive war and is part of a broader class of ?anticipatory? wars. Anticipatory wars, but especially preventive war, are ?hard cases? for traditional Just War theory; other puzzles for this tradition include nuclear deterrence, humanitarian intervention, and provability a priori of the success of Tit-for-Tat. First, and despite strong assertions to the contrary, it is far from clear that preventive war is absolutely …Read more
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4Few philosophers today know much about Charles Peirce’s metaphysics, although a great many know something about his epistemology, philosophy of science, and logic. Indeed, few Peirce experts have written much on his metaphysics or made it the focus of their research. To an extent, this is understandable. Peirce’s writings were left in a disastrously disorganized state (mostly unpublished), and the crucial papers on metaphysics from his later years have not yet been republished in the first-rate …Read more
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25Coherence and engineering designStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 37 (1): 152-158. 2006.
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41The substantive impact of computers on philosophy: Prolegomena to a computational and information-theoretic metaphysicsIn James Moor & Terrell Ward Bynum (eds.), Cyberphilosophy: the intersection of philosophy and computing, Blackwell. pp. 146-157. 2002.
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92The Ethics of CyberwarfareJournal of Military Ethics 9 (4): 384-410. 2010.The paper addresses several issues in the morality of cyberwar and cyberwarfare, defined as one nation's attacks on the governmental or civilian information systems of another nation. It sketches the diverse technical ways in which an attack may occur, including denial-of-service attacks and the insertion of various forms of malware. It argues that existing international law and widely discussed principles of Just War Theory do not straightforwardly apply to cyberwarfare, and many forms of cyber…Read more
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128Artifacts, art works, and agencyTemple University Press. 1993.This is the first philosophical study of artifacts that is book length. In it Randall Dipert develops a theory of what artifacts are and applies it extensively to one of the most complex and intriguing kind of artifacts, art works. He presents his own account of what agents, intentions, and actions are, then uses these notions to clarify what it is for an agent to "make" something. From this starting point, he develops a full theory of artifacts and other artificial things - and, especially, a t…Read more
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78Set—Theoretical Representations of Ordered Pairs and Their Adequacy for the Logic of RelationsCanadian Journal of Philosophy 12 (2). 1982.One of the most significant discoveries of early twentieth century mathematical logic was a workable definition of ‘ordered pair’ totally within set theory. Norbert Wiener, and independently Casimir Kuratowski, are usually credited with this discovery. A definition of ‘ordered pair’ held the key to the precise formulation of the notions of ‘relation’ and ‘function’ — both of which are probably indispensable for an understanding of the foundations of mathematics. The set-theoretic definition of ‘…Read more
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