Papers

Here is a selection of my papers, listed by topic:  Dimensions & Metrology, Models & Similar Systems; Philosophy of Natural & Artificial Intelligence; HIstory of Science; and Science & Technology in Milieu of Early Wittgenstein.  A more comprehensive, chronologically ordered list of publications may be found on my cv.  There is a "Download CV' button. on the 'HOME' page.

DIMENSIONS & METROLOGY
"Theory of Dimensions" in Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Physics, edited by Alastair Wilson and Eleanor Knox, forthcoming..  http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/14093/

"Relations Between Units and Relations Between Quantities" accepted to special issue of JGPS (Journal for the General Philosophy of Science) but may appear instead in an anthology TBD.   https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/157867902.pdf

Poster associated with paper:
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MODELS & SIMILAR SYSTEMS
"The morals of model-making", Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Part A, Volume 46, June 2014, Pages 31-45.  (Special issue:  Values and Norms in Modeling the Progress of Science)  Published open access in SHPS.           

"Experimentation on Analogue Models."  Contribution to Springer anthology           Model-Based Science (Invited by area editor for Physics).  Preprint available at the Philosophy of Science archive:  http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/11492/ 
Anthology on Springer website: http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319305257

"Physically Similar Systems: a history of the concept."  Contribution to Springer anthology Model-Based Science (Invited by area editor for Model-based reasoning in science and history of science ).  Preprint:  http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/11352/
​Anthology on Springer website: http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319305257

"Similarity and Dimensional Analysis"  Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, Volume 9: Philosophy of Technology and the Engineering Sciences, ed. by Anthonie Meijers (Series editors: Dov Gabbay, Paul Thagard, and John Woods). pp. 799 – 824.   preprint:  http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/4474/

"Physical Models and Fundamental Laws:  Using One Piece of the World to Tell About Another" Mind and Society  5, 2002, Vol. 3, pp.  51-66.  preprint: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/720/

"Models of Machines and Models of Phenomena."  International Studies in the Philosophy of Science  Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 69-80. preprint: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/2245/


PHILOSOPHY OF NATURAL & ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 
"Turing on the integration of human and machine intelligence." Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science series, ed. by
Juliet Floyd and Alisa Bokulich, to commemorate 100th anniversary of Alan Turing's birth.)  Preprint:  http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/10316/
Anthology on Springer website: www.springer.com/us/book/9783319532783#otherversion=9783319532806

"Bringing Up Turing's Child-Machine" in How the World Computes, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2012, Volume 7318/2012, 703 - 713.  preprint:  http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/9085/

"Too Many Instincts: Contrasting Philosophical Views on Intelligence in Humans and Non-Humans",  JETAI  (Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence), Vol. 14, No. 1,  pp. 39 - 60.

 "Nested Algorithms and ‘The Original Imitation Game Test’: A Reply to James Moor" Minds and Machines, Vol. 12, pp. 131-136

 "Turing’s Two Tests for Intelligence"  Minds and Machines, Vol. 10, pp. 541-559.  pdf 

HISTORY OF SCIENCE 
"Darwin’s analogy between artificial and natural selection:  how does it go?" Studies in History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Vol. 33, pp. 151-168.  2002  Darwinpdf

"Sounds Like Light:  Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity and Mach’s Work on Acoustics and Aerodynamics."  Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, Vol. 29, pp. 1 - 35.  1998  SLLpdf

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY IN MILIEU OF THE EARLY WITTGENSTEIN
"Pictures, Models, and Measures" in Belgrade Philosophical Annual, Volume 30 2017. p 99 - 137.  (OPEN ACCESS) http://www.f.bg.ac.rs/bpa/read-online.html

"Pictures of Sound: Wittgenstein on Gramophone Records and the Logic of Depiction." Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Vol. 36, pp. 351-362.  preprint:  http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/2019/

"Physical Pictures: Engineering Models circa 1914 and in Wittgenstein's Tractatus"  Presented July 2000 Vienna, Austria.  Published in History and Philosophy of Science:  New Trends and Perspectives, ed. by Michael Heidelberger and Friedrich Stadler (Vienna Institute Yearbook 2001/9), Kluwer Academic, 2002.
(preprint of longer lecture based on paper, includes timeline: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/661/ )

Books

Here I list three book-length works, each of which is a separate endeavor: a book I authored, a textbook I co-authored, and my dissertation.  

Wittgenstein Flies A Kite: A Story of Models of Wings and Models of the World.  Pi Press (Imprint of Penguin), 2006  
​_Flyer About Book  
 Interview about book (on website)
​:(Interview - pdf)

Three Views of Logic: Mathematics, Philosophy, and Computer Science.  Princeton University Press, 2014.
Review in MAA Reviews 
Review in CHOICE

How Beliefs Make a Difference. UMI Dissertations, 1999.
http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/9372/


Slides, Talks & Miscellany

UPCOMING TALKS

[Title of talk to be determined0
Jemison Visiting Professorship Lecture at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.  January 11, 2019. 

"The Constructal Law in Historical Perspective" at Constructal Law and Second Law Conference, at University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil., March 11 - 13, 2019.

SOME PAST TALKS 
"The Genius of the 'Original Imitation Game' Test." (Invited Keynote) at  "Rethinking, Reworking, and Revolutionising the Turing Test: Interdisciplinary Conference 2018", University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.  November 15th & 16th, 2018. https://turingtest2018.wordpress.com/

​"The Role of Basic Units in a System of Units" (Poster) at PSA2018 (Philosophy of Science Association Biennial Meeting)  November 2, 2018 sterrettroleofbasicunitsposterfrompptemplate.pptx

"Analogous Principles: The Use of Analogy in the Work of Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, and Alan Turing"  (invited) at UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico.  September 11, 2018

"Scale Models, Invariants, and Similarity"  8th Models and Simulation Conference (MS8), March 15th-17th, 2018

"Does it take a Village to Train a Computer?"  (invited)
'Ethics, Computing, and Artificial Intelligence" conference at Dartmouth College, November 14-15th, 2017.  https://philosophy.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=48611#.W022yOlnlUQ

"The Future of the Constructal Theory in Historical Perspective: Intimations of the 'Unity of Truth'"  Franklin Institute Awards Symposium, The Inn at Villanova University, April 18th, 2018 (Invited) https://constructal.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/villanova-symposium.pdf

"Schema, Perception and Memory in Social Interaction" [2017 Version]  Department of Philosophy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.  September 29, 2017.

"Experimentation on Analogue Models"  SPSP (Society for the Philosophy of Science in Practice) 2016.  June 17th - 19th, 2016 Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ  http://www.philosophy-science-practice.org/en/events/sixth-spsp-glassboro-nj-2016/  SPSP 2016

"Disciplining Little Models" HOPOS (History of Philosophy of Science) 2016.  June 23rd - 25th, 2016.  University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.  http://hopos2016.umn.edu/welcome

"The Use of Analogy in the Works of Darwin, Einstein, and Turing"  8th Quadrennial International Fellows Conference, July 11th - 13th, Lund, Sweden.  This paper is constantly being revised and expanded; a later version was presented at the College of Charleston, Charleston, SC. in March 2018, and an updated version will be presented in Mexico City in September 2018.

TALKS - selected online resources

"Experimentation on Analogues", PSX3 (Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation III), Department of Physics, University of Boulder Campus, Boulder, Colorado. October 5 - 6, 2012. Slides available: SlidesBoulderTalk

"Frege and Hilbert on the Foundations of Geometry (1994 Talk)."  Talk presented at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate Student Colloquium.  available on Philosophy of Science Archive at  http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/723/

"The Use of Analogy in the Works of Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, and Alan Turing"  Slides and draft text of Inaugural Lecture for Curtis D. Gridley Distinguished Professorship in History & Philosophy of Science.  https://www.academia.edu/10675823/