Registration, Representation, and Ontology
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Deference, Humility, and Awe
(2014)
Notes for a talk given at University of Toronto Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Mind (UTISM). 12 pages.
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The Correspondence Continuum
(2018, v0.81)
Annotated version of a paper from CSLI. 106 pages.
Annotated (2018)
Original published in 1987 (Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) January 1987 Report No. CSLI-87-71)
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Rehabilitating Representation
(edited 2009)
Lightly-edited version of a paper delivered at a workshop on Intentionality and the Natural Mind sponsored by the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program, Washington University in St. Louis. 83 pages.
Original published in 1998 (March 19–20, 1998)
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The Couch or the Bottle: Levels of Abstraction in the Anxious Mind
(2015)
Slides for a talk that was given several times (UCSC, Linköping); an analysis of what it is to say that a phenomenon is “at” a given level of abstraction. 51 slides.
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The Nonconceptual World
(2009, v0.60)
An argument against classical ontology, which takes the world to come in something like “conceptual form”—objects exemplifying properties. 38 pages.
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Dennet on Smith
(2009, v0.80)
Daniel C. Dennett commenting on Brian Cantwell Smith, and reply. Includes text of a discussion with Rob Cummins. Edited by Hugh Clapin. 74 pages.
Original published in 2002 (Hugh Clapin (ed.), Philosophy of Mental Representation, Oxford University Press, 2002)
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Effing the Ineffable
(2021)
Talk notes and slides. Articulation of how much the world transcends our ability to understand it. 24 pages.
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Who's on Third? (Talk)
(2017)
Notes/slides. An account of how the subjective (“phenomenal”) feel of consciousness is a natural consequence of any (adequate) view of intentionality and registration that is not based on an ontologically-given world. 38 pages.
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God, Approximately
(2009)
A number of manuscripts have been circulated under this title. 43 pages.
Original published in 1994 (W. Mark Richardson and Philip Clayton, eds., Science and the Spiritual Quest: New Essays by Leading Scientists, Routledge, 2002, pp. 207-28.)
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Third Day
(edited 2009, v0.80)
Essay written to accompany a catalogue of Adam Lowe’s paintings. 13 pages.
Original published in 1992 (Essay written to accompany a catalogue of Adam Lowe’s paintings; published in Registration Marks, «Ref: Permaprint... 1992»)
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It’s Harder Than That
(2001)
Notes for a talk. Upping the Ante on the Science / Religion Debate. 12 pages.
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More than Mere Mechanism
(1998, v~GA 3.5)
An early draft of God, Approximately. 9 pages.
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Towards a Theory of Representation and Modelling
(1985)
Notes for Representation/Modelling seminar, November 5, 1985. 17 pages.