My research is in the following areas: philosophy of computer science and AI; philosophy of technology, including metaphysics of computation and virtual reality; the philosophy of language and linguistics, in particular the philosophy of Jerrold J. Katz; computational philology, applying computer programs to parse ancient texts; the ancient philosophy of Heraclitus, in particular the notion that his philosophy was motivated by his reaction to a naïve paratactic metaphysics; and history of analytic philosophy, in particular the early Wittgenstein.

I am editor of four subcategories for PhilPapers: 'Explainability in AI' and 'Interpretability …

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