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16The 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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16Artifacts, 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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6Set—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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Naturalism's unfinished project : making philosophy and philosophers more than superficially scientificIn John R. Shook & Paul Kurtz (eds.), The future of naturalism, Humanity Books. 2009.
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Charles S. Peirce , "Studies in Logic by Members of the Johns Hopkins University" (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 20 (4): 469. 1984.
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7The Substantive Impact of Computers on Philosophy Prolegomena to a Computational and Information‐Theoretic MetaphysicsMetaphilosophy 33 (1‐2): 146-157. 2003.I survey in this article the practical uses of computers in philosophy: except for logic, computers have not yet noticeably improved the quality of philosophizing, research, or pedagogy. They have made work easier. My main interest, however, is in the “substantive” impact that computers may have on philosophical problems, especially in metaphysics. I argue that logic, the notion of decidability, and the theory of computation all predated and did not require modern digital computers. In the philo…Read more
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5The Life and Logical Contributions of O. H. Mitchell, Peirce's Gifted StudentTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 30 (3). 1994.
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10A. T. Shearman. The development of symbolic logic. A critical-historical study of the logical calculus. A reprint of 1413. Thoemmes, Bristol1990, xi + 242 pp (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 57 (4): 1485-1487. 1992.
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9Peirce’s Propositional LogicReview of Metaphysics 34 (3). 1981.BEFORE Frege’s Begriffsschrift, propositional logic was submerged in the often murky theory of the "hypothetical syllogism." With the exception of the Stoa, a handful of astute mediaeval logicians, Leibniz, and Bolzano, one might well obtain the impression from studying the history of logic that Frege created his theory ex nihilo—which is substantially true, since Frege was apparently little influenced by previous work. One might also obtain the impression, especially by reading Frege himself, t…Read more
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4Essay ReviewHistory and Philosophy of Logic 5 (2): 227-232. 1984.CHARLES S.PEIRCE(ED.), Studies in logic by members of the Johns Hopkins University. Original Preface by Peirce, new introduction by Max H. Fisch, new preface by Achim Eschbach. A Reprint of the original 1883 edition. Amsterdam andPhiladelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1983, lviii + vi + 203 pp. No price stated
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23Philosophers have almost always said something about emotions and passions whenever they have discussed human mental life. Many have asserted that it is some emotions or, more broadly, passions, that are to be primarily valued and sought. These valued passionate states of mind might include emotions, moods, desires, belief-like feelings of conviction and commitment, and romantic or erotic love, which are typically scarcely distinguished. Not only are these states of mind lumped together, but the…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics |
Aesthetics |
Applied Ethics |
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |
Philosophy of Computing and Information |
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Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Science, Logic, and Mathematics |