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    On the Origin of Objects
    Mass. : MIT Press. 1996.
    On the Origin of Objects is the culmination of Brian Cantwell Smith's decade-long investigation into the philosophical and metaphysical foundations of computation, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science. Based on a sustained critique of the formal tradition that underlies the reigning views, he presents an argument for an embedded, participatory, "irreductionist," metaphysical alternative. Smith seeks nothing less than to revise our understanding not only of the machines we build but als…Read more
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    The owl and the electric encyclopedia
    Artificial Intelligence 47 (1-3): 251-288. 1991.
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    The limits of correctness
    Acm Sigcas Computers and Society 14 (1): 18-26. 1985.
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    Varieties of Self-Reference
    Journal of Symbolic Logic 53 (2): 661-662. 1988.
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    In Hugh Clapin (ed.), Philosophy of Mental Representation, Clarendon Press. 2002.