Areas of Specialization

Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Mathematics

Selected Publications

• “Is Logic All in Our Heads? From Naturalism to Psychologism,” with Jeffry Pelletier and Renee Elio, Studia Logica
  Vol. 86 (2008) 1-63.

• Review of Gregg’s Rosenberg’s A Place For Consciousness: Probing the Deep Structure of the Natural World, in Philosophical Books, Vol. 47 No. 2 (April 2006) 170-173.

• “Idealism, Skepticism, and Internal Relations: remarks on Hymers’s Philosophy and its Epistemic Neuroses,” Dialogue, Vol. XLIII, No. 3 (2004) 577-586.

• Review of Mark Quentin Gardiner’s Semantic Challenges to Realism: Dummett and Putnam, in University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. 71 no. 1 (2001).

• “Darwin’s Algorithm, Natural Selective History, and Intentionality Naturalized,” in Naturalism, Evolution, and Intentionality, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Vol. 27, J.S. McIntosh (ed.), (2001) 53-83.

• “Mind, Matter and Supervenience: A Reply to Mulhauser,” in Minds and Machines, 11, (2001) 301-306.

• “Physics, Logic and the Phenomenal,” critical notice of Gregory Mulhauser’s Mind Out of Matter: Topics in the Physical Foundations of Consciousness and Cognition; in Minds and Machines, 10, (2000) 391-400.

• “Cognitive Content and Semantics,” in The Logical Foundations of Cognition: Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science Vol. 4, edited by John Macnamara and Gonzalo E. Reyes, Oxford University Press (New York), 1994.

• Information, Language and Cognition: Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science Vol 1 (editor), Oxford University Press (New York, 1993).

• “Return of the A Priori,” co-authored with Bruce Hunter, in Return of the A Priori, Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Vol. 18, co-edited with Bruce Hunter (Calgary, 1992).

Selected Presentations

• “A Priori Methods and the Concrete World,” invited contribution to a symposium on the a priori at the Pacific APA meetings, Pasedena CA, March 2008.

• “Emergent Self-Organisation as order For Free,” Australasian Association of Philosophy Meetings, ANU, Canberra, July 2006.

• “Two Conceptions of Levels,” Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science Meetings, Dalhausie University, Halifax, May 2003.

• “Explaining the Inexplicability,” Consciousness 2000 Conference, Center For the Study of Consciousness, U of Arizona, Tuscon, April 2000.