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133Computing machinery and emergence: The aesthetics and metaphysics of video gamesMinds and Machines 15 (1): 73-89. 2004.We build on some of Daniel Dennett’s ideas about predictive indispensability to characterize properties of video games discernable by people as computationally emergent if, and only if: (1) they can be instantiated by a computing machine, and (2) there is no algorithm for detecting instantiations of them. We then use this conception of emergence to provide support to the aesthetic ideas of Stanley Fish and to illuminate some aspects of the Chomskyan program in cognitive science
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85Mind and anomalous monismInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2005.Anomalous Monism is a type of property dualism in the philosophy of mind. Property dualism combines the thesis that mental phenomena are strictly irreducible to physical phenomena with the denial that mind and body are discrete substances. For the anomalous monist, the plausibility of property dualism derives from the fact that although mental states, events and processes have genuine causal powers, the causal relationships that they enter into with physical entities cannot be explained by appea…Read more
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Computability Theory and Ontological EmergenceAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 48 (1): 63. 2011.It is often helpful in metaphysics to reflect upon the principles that govern how existence claims are made in logic and mathematics. Consider, for example, the different ways in which mathematicians construct inductive definitions. In order to provide an inductive definition of a class of mathematical entities, one must first define a base class and then stipulate further conditions for inclusion by reference to the properties of members of the base class. These conditions can be deflationary, …Read more
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29Response to “Moral Heroism and the Requirement Claim” by Kyle FruhSouthwest Philosophy Review 30 (2): 13-16. 2014.
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78Computability theory and literary competenceBritish Journal of Aesthetics 46 (4): 369-386. 2006.criticism defend the idea that an individual reader's understanding of a text can be a factor in determining the meaning of what is written in that text, and hence must play a part in determining the very identity conditions of works of literary art. We examine some accounts that have been given of the type of readerly ‘competence’ that a reader must have in order for her responses to a text to play this sort of constitutive role. We argue that the analogy drawn by Stanley Fish and Jonathan Cull…Read more
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