•  4
    Origins of mind (edited book)
    Springer. 2012.
    The big question of how and why mindedness evolved necessitates collaborative, multidisciplinary investigation. Biosemiotics provides a new conceptual space that attracts a multitude of thinkers in the biological and cognitive sciences and the humanities who recognize continuity in the biosphere from the simplest to the most complex organisms, and who are united in the project of trying to account for even language and human consciousness in this comprehensive picture of life. The young interdis…Read more
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    Introduction : exploring the origins of mindedness in nature
    In Liz Stillwaggon Swan (ed.), Origins of Mind, Springer Verlag. pp. 1--17. 2012.
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    Philosophy Through Science Fiction (review)
    Philosophy Now 80 41-41. 2010.
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    Yoga - Philosophy for Everyone: Bending Mind and Body (edited book)
    Wiley-Blackwell. 2011.
    _Stimulates thoughts and expands awareness of the philosophical dimensions of yoga in its many forms and practices_ _Yoga — Philosophy for Everyone_ presents a wide array of perspectives by people whose lives have been touched by yoga. Addressing myriad aspects of yoga's divergent paths, topics include body image for men and women; the religious and spiritual aspects of yoga; and issues relating to ethics, personal growth, and the teaching of yoga. Written by philosophers and non-philosophers al…Read more
  • Yoga ‐ Philosophy for Everyone (edited book)
    Wiley‐Blackwell. 2011-10-14.
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    Kuhn's Incommensurability Arguments
    with Michael Bruce
    In Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Rationality and Paradigm Shifts Incommensurable Paradigms and Holism.
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    Putnam's no Miracles Argument
    In Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011.
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    Sir Karl Popper's Demarcation Argument
    In Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011.
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    Galileo's Falling Bodies
    In Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011.
  •  3
    Yoga - Philosophy for Everyone: Bending Mind and Body
    with John Friend
    Wiley-Blackwell. 2011.
    Stimulates thoughts and expands awareness of the philosophical dimensions of yoga in its many forms and practices Yoga — Philosophy for Everyone presents a wide array of perspectives by people whose lives have been touched by yoga. Addressing myriad aspects of yoga's divergent paths, topics include body image for men and women; the religious and spiritual aspects of yoga; and issues relating to ethics, personal growth, and the teaching of yoga. Written by philosophers and non-philosophers alike,…Read more
  • Origin of Design in Nature (edited book)
    with Gordon Richard and Seckbach Joseph
    . 2012.
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    Introduction: Mentis Naturalis (review)
    with Louis J. Goldberg
    Biosemiotics 6 (3): 297-300. 2013.
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    Philosophy Through Science Fiction (review)
    Philosophy Now 80 41-41. 2010.
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    Biosymbols: Symbols in Life and Mind
    with Louis J. Goldberg
    Biosemiotics 3 (1): 17-31. 2010.
    The strong continuity thesis postulates that the properties of mind are an enriched version of the properties of life, and thus that life and mind differ in degree and not kind. A philosophical problem for this view is the ostensive discontinuity between humans and other animals in virtue of our use of symbols—particularly the presumption that the symbolic nature of human cognition bears no relation to the basic properties of life. In this paper, we make the case that a genuine account of strong…Read more
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    Karl Popper, Forensic Science, and Nested Codes
    Biosemiotics 7 (2): 309-319. 2014.
    This paper utilizes the framework of Karl Popper’s 3-world ontology to make the case that forensic science is a specialized coding system that establishes meaningful connections between the world of biology and the world of human society . Forensic science is a cross-disciplinary endeavor that uses scientific methods to determine what transpired in a crime so the legal system can determine how to prosecute the offender. On a Popperian analysis of forensic science, world 1 consists of evidence ga…Read more
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    Synthesizing insight: Artificial life as thought experimentation in biology
    Biology and Philosophy 24 (5): 687-701. 2009.
    What is artificial life? Much has been said about this interesting collection of efforts to artificially simulate and synthesize lifelike behavior and processes, yet we are far from having a robust philosophical understanding of just what Alifers are doing and why it ought to interest philosophers of science, and philosophers of biology in particular. In this paper, I first provide three introductory examples from the particular subset of artificial life I focus on, known as ‘soft Alife’ (s-Alif…Read more
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    Digital immortality: Self or 0010110?
    with Joshua Howard
    International Journal of Machine Consciousness 4 (01): 245-256. 2012.
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    A biosemiotic analysis of Braille
    with Louis J. Goldberg
    Biosemiotics 4 (1): 25-38. 2011.
    Abstract A unique aspect of human communication is the utilization of sets of well- delineated entities, the morphology of which is used to encode the letters of the alphabet. In this paper, we focus on Braille as an exemplar of this phenomenon. We take a Braille cell to be a physical artifact of the human environment, into the structure of which is encoded a representation of a letter of the alphabet. The specific issue we address in this paper concerns an examination of how the code that is em…Read more
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    The Brain and the Meaning of Life
    International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 25 (3). 2011.
    International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume 25, Issue 3, Page 297-299, September 2011
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    How Is Meaning Grounded in the Organism?
    with Louis J. Goldberg
    Biosemiotics 3 (2): 131-146. 2010.
    In this paper we address the interrelated questions of why and how certain features of an organism’s environment become meaningful to it. We make the case that knowing the biology is essential to understanding the foundation of meaning-making in organisms. We employ Miguel Nicolelis et al’s seminal research on the mammalian somatosensory system to enrich our own concept of brain-objects as the neurobiological intermediary between the environment and the consequent organismic behavior. In the fin…Read more
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    Origins of Mind (edited book)
    Springer Verlag. 2012.
    In addition to recognizing the connection between aesthetic judgment and mindfulness to better understand the continuity between humans and nonhuman animals, a shift of the discussion of the origins of mind to the origins of mindfulness ...
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    Animal Lab
    Philosophy Now 76 52-54. 2009.