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Read MoreWhat is a Model, Why People Don’t Trust Them, and Why They Should. In Negotiating Our Future: Living scenarios for Australia to 2050, Australian Academy of Science (with Boschetti F, Fulton E.A., Bradbury, R.H.)
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Read MoreHow Computational Models Predict the Behavior of Complex Systems, in ‘Foundations of Science’, 2012 (with Fabio Boschetti)
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Read MoreNovel Properties Generated by Interacting Computational Systems (with Fabio Boschetti) in “Complex Systems” vol. 20, 2 pp 151-164 (2011)
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Read MoreComputational Models of Emergent Properties in “Minds & Machines” (2008) 18:475–491
Computational models fail to shed light on general metaphysical questions concerning the nature of emergence. At the same time, they may provide plausible explanations of particular cases of emergence. This paper outlines the kinds of modest explanations to which computational models are suited. Read more here: Computational Models of Emergent Properties
Read More‘A Computational Modeling Strategy for Levels’ Philosophy of Science 75, (2008) pp. 608-620
Rather than taking the ontological fundamentality of an ideal microphysics as a starting point, this article sketches an approach to the problem of levels that swaps assumptions about ontology for assumptions about inquiry. These assumptions can be implemented formally via computational modeling techniques that will be described below. It is argued that these models offer…
Read More“Explanation, Representation and the Dynamical Hypothesis” Minds and Machines 11: 521-541, 2001
This paper challenges arguments that systematic patterns of intelligent behavior license the claim that representations must play a role in the cognitive system analogous to that played by syntactical structures in a computer program. In place of traditional computational models, I argue that research inspired by Dynamical Systems theory can support an alternative view of representations. My…
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