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    Analog simulation
    Philosophy of Science 61 (1): 115-131. 1994.
    The distinction between analog and digital representation is reexamined; it emerges that a more fundamental distinction is that between symbolic and analog simulation. Analog simulation is analyzed in terms of a (near) isomorphism of causal structures between a simulating and a simulated process. It is then argued that a core concept, naturalistic analog simulation, may play a role in a bottom-up theory of adaptive behavior which provides an alternative to representational analyses. The appendix…Read more
  •  49
    Causation and necessity
    Journal of Philosophy 72 (14): 444-465. 1975.
  •  42
    Doing without Events
    Canadian Journal of Philosophy 8 (1). 1978.
    Events have played a central role in a number of recent philosophical analyses. In general, there are two different sorts of arguments that might be offered in favour of an event analysis: first, it might be held that the constructions being analyzed contain certain nominals which intuitively refer to events, and further that any satisfactory analysis must respect these intuitions; second, it might be argued that quite aside from our intuitions, the concept of an event — perhaps as a purely tech…Read more
  •  17
    Holism: A Shopper's Guide
    Noûs 28 (2): 241-252. 1994.
  •  7
    Doing Without Events
    Canadian Journal of Philosophy 8 (1): 173-185. 1978.
    Events have played a central role in a number of recent philosophical analyses. In general, there are two different sorts of arguments that might be offered in favour of an event analysis: first, it might be held that the constructions being analyzed contain certain nominals which intuitively refer to events, and further that any satisfactory analysis must respect these intuitions; second, it might be argued that quite aside from our intuitions, the concept of an event — perhaps as a purely tech…Read more
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    Book reviews (review)
    with Miriam Solomon, Dianne Stober, Robert J. Matthews, and Max Velmans
    Philosophical Psychology 6 (1): 97-113. 1993.
    The Adaptive Character of Thought John R. Anderson, Hillside, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum, Associates Inc., 1990The Psychology of Today's Woman: new psychoanalytic visions Toni Bernay & Dorothy W. Canton, Harvard University Press $12.95Leamability and Cognition: the acquisition of argument structure Steven Pinker, Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 1989 xiv + 410ppPropositional Attitudes, an essay on thoughts and how we ascribe them Mark Richard, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990 275 pp., 829.95Sc…Read more