Personal
Born: 6 December 1940;
Pasadena, California. Married.
Home: 800 Violet Lane, Oregon, WI, 53575; (608) 835-2707
Office: Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN
55812
Education
Indiana University,
Ph.D., 1970, History and Philosophy of Science
Columbia University, 1968-69, Philosophy
Indiana University, M.A., 1968, History and Philosophy of Science
Princeton University, A.B., 1962, Philosophy
Military
Service
Commissioned Officer,
United States Marine Corps, 1962-66
Current
Position
Distinguished McKnight
University Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota, 2006-
Professional
Experience
Distinguished McKnight
University Professor, University of Minnesota, 1996-2006
Director, Master of Liberal Studies Program, University of Minnesota,
Duluth, 1996-2006
Department Chairman, University of Minnesota, Duluth, 1988-92
Professor of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, Duluth, 1987-96
Research Scholar, New College, University of South Florida, 1985-86
Visiting Professor, University of Virginia, Spring Semester, 1984-85
Adjunct Professor, University of South Florida, Fall Semester, 1984-85
MacArthur Visiting Distinguished Professor in the Arts and Sciences,
New College, University of South Florida, 1983-84
Visiting Associate Professor, New College, University of South
Florida,1981-83
Visiting Lecturer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1980-81
Visiting NSF Research Professor, University of Cincinnati, 1979-80
Visiting Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati, 1978-79
Visiting Associate Professor, University of Virginia, 1977-78
Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky, 1970-77
Honors and
Awards
The Outstanding
Research Award, College of Liberal Arts,
University of Minnesota, Duluth, 2000-01
McKnight Endowment Fellow, University of Minnesota, 1996
Summer Faculty Research Fellow, University of Minnesota, 1996
The Outstanding Research Award, College of Liberal Arts,
University of Minnesota, Duluth, 1992-93
Lansdowne Lecturer, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., 1992
President, The Minnesota Philosophical Society, 1991-92
Vice-President, The Minnesota Philosophical Society, 1990-91
The Medal of the University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, 1990
Summer Faculty Research Fellow, University of Minnesota, 1988
Postdoctoral Fellow in Computer Science, Wright State University, 1986-87
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, National Science Foundation, 1979-80
The Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Kentucky, 1973-74
Summer Faculty Research Fellow, University of Kentucky, 1972
Graduate Research Assistant, Indiana University, 1969-70
Fellow of the Faculty, Columbia University, 1968-69
NDEA Title IV Fellow, Indiana University, 1966-68
The Dickinson Prize, Princeton University, 1962
Magna Cum Laude, Princeton University, 1962
Professional
Activities
Member, Editorial
Board, Heuristics
Journal Co-Editor, Synthese, 1990-99
Associate, Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Member, Philosophy of Science Association
Member, American Philosophical Association
Member, Association for Computing Machinery
Member, Human Behavior and Evolution Society
Member, International Society for Human Ethology
Member, Editorial Board, Philosophy of Science, 1999-
Member, American Association of University Professors
Founder and Member, Society for Machines and Mentality
Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Member, Editorial Board, History of Philosophy Quarterly, 2005-
Founding Editor and Journal Editor, Assassination Research, 2002-
Founding Editor and Series Editor, Explorations in Philosophy, 1995-
Founding Editor and Journal Editor, Minds and Machines, 1991-2001
Founding Editor and Journal Co-Editor, Minds and Machines, 2001-2002
Founding Editor and Series Editor, Studies in Cognitive Systems, 1986-2006
Member, Editorial Board, Journal for Signs and Semiotic Systems, 2009-
Publications
Authored
Books:
SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE.
Causation, Explanation, and Corroboration. Dordrecht/Boston/London: D.
Reidel Publishing Company, 1981. (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of
Science, Vol. 69) xiv + 323 pp.
ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE: Its Scope and Limits. Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer
Academic Publishers, 1990. (Studies in Cognitive Systems, Vol. 4) xviii +
338 pp.
PHILOSOPHY AND
COGNITIVE SCIENCE. New York, NY: Paragon House Publishers, 1991. (Paragon
Issues in Philosophy) xvii + 170 pp. 2nd edition (revised and expanded),
1996. xx + 191 pp.
Published in
Portuguese translation under the title, FILOSOFIA E CIENCIA COGNITIVA.
Bauru, SP,Brazil: EDUSC, 2000. 194 pp.
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE.
New York, NY: Paragon House Publishers, 1993. (Paragon Issues in
Philosophy) xviii + 197 pp.
COMPUTERS AND
COGNITION: Why Minds are Not Machines. Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer
Academic Publishers, 2001. (Studies In Cognitive Systems , Vol. 25) xix +
323 pp.
THE EVOLUTION OF
INTELLIGENCE: Are Humans the Only Animals with Minds? (Chicago, IL: Open
Court, 2005), pp. xx + 272.
RENDER UNTO DARWIN:
Philosophical Aspects of the Christian Right's Crusade Against Science
(Chicago, IL: Open Court, 2007), pp. xx + 220.
Co-Authored Books:
GLOSSARY OF
EPISTEMOLOGY/PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE (co-authored with Robert F. Almeder).
New York, NY: Paragon House Publishers, 1993. (Paragon Glossaries for
Research, Reading, and Writing) ix + 149 pp.
GLOSSARY OF COGNITIVE
SCIENCE (co-authored with Charles E. M. Dunlop). New York, NY: Paragon
House Publishers, 1993. (Paragon Glossaries for Research, Reading, and
Writing) xii +146 pp.
Edited
Books:
PRINCIPLES OF
PHILOSOPHICAL REASONING. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Allanheld, 1984. (American
Philosophical Quarterly Library of Philosophy) x + 293 pp.
SOCIOBIOLOGY AND
EPISTEMOLOGY. Dordrecht/Boston/Lancaster: D. Reidel Publishing Company,
1985. (Synthese Library, Vol. 180) x + 282 pp.
ASPECTS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. Dordrecht/Boston/Lancaster/Tokyo:
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988. (Studies in Cognitive Systems, Vol. 1)
xiii + 385 pp.
PROBABILITY AND
CAUSALITY. Essays in Honor of Wesley C. Salmon. Dordrecht/Boston/
Lancaster /Tokyo: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1988. (Synthese Library,
Vol. 192) xvii + 353 pp.
EPISTEMOLOGY AND
COGNITION. Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991.
(Studies in Cognitive Systems, Vol. 6) xiii + 301 pp.
FOUNDATIONS OF
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE: Recent Developments. New York, NY: Paragon House
Publishers, 1993. (Paragon Issues in Philosophy) xvii + 512 pp.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF CARL
G. HEMPEL: Studies in Science, Explanation, and Rationality. New York, NY:
Oxford University Press, 2000. xxix + 342 pp.
SCIENCE, EXPLANATION,
AND RATIONALITY: Aspects of the Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel. New York,
NY: Oxford University Press, 2001. xxxiii + 423 pp.
CONSCIOUSNESS
EVOLVING. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishers, 2002
(Advances in Consciouness Research) xix + 251 pp.
Co-Edited Books:
PHILOSOPHY, LANGUAGE,
AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. Resources for Processing Natural Language
(co-edited with Jack Kulas and Terry L. Rankin). Dordrecht/Boston/London:
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988. (Studies in Cognitive Systems, Vol. 2)
xii + 421 pp.
PHILOSOPHY, MIND, AND
COGNITIVE INQUIRY. Resources for Understanding Mental Processes (co-edited
with David Cole and Terry L. Rankin). Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer
Academic Publishers, 1990. (Studies in Cognitive Systems, Vol. 3) xi + 449
pp.
DEFINITIONS AND
DEFINABILITY: Philosophical Perspectives (co-edited with David Shatz and
George Schlesinger). Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
1991. (Synthese Library, Vol. 216) ix + 323 pp.
PROGRAM VERIFICATION.
Fundamental Issues in Computer Science (co-edited with Timothy Colburn and
Terry L. Rankin). Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
1993. (Studies in Cognitive Systems, Vol. 14) xiii + 457 pp.
THE NEW THEORY OF
REFERENCE: Kripke, Marcus, and Its Origins (co-edited with Paul W.
Humphreys). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998.
(Synthese Library, Vol. 270) xiii + 290 pp.
THE PLACE OF
PROBABILITY IN SCIENCE (co-edited with Ellery Eells). Dordrecht,
Heidelberg, London, New York: Springer, 2010. xliii + 368 pp.
Guest
Edited Journal Issues:
Single-Case
Probabilities, Synthese, Vol. 40, No. 3 (March 1979), pp.409-514.
Probabilistic
Explanation, Part I, Synthese, Vol. 48, No. 2 (August 1981), pp. 165-330.
Probabilistic
Explanation, Part II, Synthese, Vol. 48, No. 3 (September1981), pp.
331-494.
Rationality and
Objectivity: Philosophical and Psychological Conceptions, Part I, Synthese,
Vol. 57, No. 2 (November 1983), pp. 127-266.
Rationality and
Objectivity: Philosophical and Psychological Conceptions, Part II,
Synthese, Vol. 57, No. 3 (December 1983), pp. 267-442.
Epistemology and
Cognition, Part I, Synthese, Vol. 82, No. 2 (February 1990), pp. 175-306.
Epistemology and
Cognition, Part II, Synthese, Vol. 82, No. 3 (March 1990), pp. 307-439.
Epistemology and
Cognition, Part III, Synthese, Vol. 83, No. 1 (April 1990), pp. 1-177.
Propensities and
Probabilities, Synthese, Vol. 132, Nos. 1-2. (July/August 2002), pp.
1-184.
Evolution and Its
Rivals (co-edited with Glenn Branch), Synthese (forthcoming).
Co-Edited Journal Symposium:
The New Theory of
Reference (co-edited with Paul W. Humphreys), Synthese, Vol. 104, No. 2
(August 1995), pp. 177-283.
General
Articles:
"Dispositional
Probabilities", in R. Buck and R. Cohen, eds., PSA 1970 (Dordrecht,
Holland: D. Reidel, 1971), pp. 473-482. (Boston Studies in the Philosophy
of Science, Vol. 8)
Reprinted in R.
Tuomela, ed., Dispositions (Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel, 1978), pp.
267-276.
"Philosophy of Science
versus Psychology of Science", American Psychologist (July 1972), pp.
662-665.
"Grunbaum's 'Defense'
of the Symmetry Thesis", Philosophical Studies (April 1974), pp. 173-187.
"On 'Epistemic
Possibility'", Philosophia (April-July 1974), pp. 327-335.
"Statistical
Explanations", in K. Schaffner and R. Cohen, eds., PSA 1972 (Dordrecht,
Holland: D. Reidel, 1974), pp. 337-347. (Boston Studies in the Philosophy
of Science, Vol. 20)
"Statistical
Probabilities: Single Case Propensities vs. Long Run Frequencies", in W.
Leinfellner and E. Kohler, eds., Developments in the Methodology of Social
Science (Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel, 1974), pp. 387-397.
"A Single Case
Propensity Theory of Explanation", Synthese (October 1974), pp. 171-198.
Reprinted in J. H.
Fetzer, ed., Foundations of Philosophy of Science: Recent Developments
(New York, NY: Paragon, 1993), pp. 184-202.
"On the Historical
Explanation of Unique Events", Theory and Decision (February 1975), pp.
87-97.
"The Likeness of
Lawlikeness", in R. Cohen, C. Hooker, A. Michalos and J. van Evra, eds.,
PSA 1974 (Dordecht, Holland: D. Reidel, 1976), pp. 377-391. (Boston
Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 32)
"Elements of
Induction", in R. Bogdan, ed., Local Induction (Dordrecht, Holland: D.
Reidel, 1976), pp. 145-160.
"Reichenbach,
Reference Classes, and Single Case 'Probabilities'", Synthese (February
1977), pp. 185-217. Errata, Synthese (January 1978) pp. 113-114.
Reprinted in W.
Salmon, ed., Hans Reichenbach: Logical Empiricist (Dordrecht, Holland:
D. Reidel, 1979), pp. 187-219.
Reprinted in H.
Kyburg, Jr., and M. Thalos, eds., Probability is the Very Guide of Life
(Chicago, IL: Open Court, 2003), pp. 3-32.
"A World of
Dispositions", Synthese (April 1977), pp. 397-421.
Reprinted in R.
Tuomela, ed., Dispositions (Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel, 1978), pp.
163-187.
"On Mellor on
Dispositions", Philosophia (July 1978), pp. 651-660.
"Syntax, Semantics,
and Ontology: A Probabilistic Causal Calculus" (with Donald E. Nute),
Synthese (March 1979), pp. 453-495.
"A Probabilistic
Causal Calculus: Conflicting Conceptions" (with Donald E. Nute), Synthese
(June 1980), pp. 241-246. Errata, Synthese (September 1981), p. 493.
"Probability and
Explanation", Synthese (September 1981), pp. 371-408.
"Transcendent Laws and
Empirical Procedures", in N. Rescher, ed., The Limits of Lawfulness
(Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1983), pp. 25-32.
"Probabilistic
Explanations", in P. Asquith and T. Nickles, eds., PSA 1982, Vol. 2 (East
Lansing, MI: Philosophy of Science Association, 1983), pp. 194-207.
"Probability and
Objectivity in Deterministic and Indeterministic Situations", Synthese
(December 1983), pp. 367-386.
Reprinted in J. H.
Fetzer, ed., Foundations of Philosophy of Science: Recent Developments
(New York, NY: Paragon, 1993), pp. 210-223.
Reprinted in E.
Eells and J. Fetzer, eds., The Place of Probability in Science (Dordrecht,
Heidelberg, London, New York: Springer, 2010), pp. 229-244.
"Philosophical
Reasoning", in J. H. Fetzer, ed., Principles of Philosophical Reasoning
(Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Allanheld, 1984), pp. 3-21.
"Reduction Sentence
'Meaning Postulates'", in N. Rescher, ed., The Heritage of Logical
Positivism (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1984), pp. 55-65.
"Science and
Sociobiology", in J. H. Fetzer, ed., Sociobiology and Epistemology (Dordrecht,
Holland: D. Reidel, 1985), pp. 217-246.
"Methodological
Individualism: Singular Causal Systems and Their Population
Manifestations", Synthese (July 1986), pp. 99-128.
"Mentality and
Creativity", Journal of Social and Biological Structures (January 1988),
pp. 82-85.
Reprinted in C.
Findlay and C. Lumsden, eds., The Creative Mind (New York, NY: Academic
Press, 1988), pp. 82-85.
"Probabilistic
Metaphysics", in J. H. Fetzer, ed., Probability and Causality (Dordrecht,
Holland: D. Reidel, 1988), pp. 109-132.
Reprinted in E.
Eells and J. Fetzer, eds., The Place of Probability in Science (Dordrecht,
Heidelberg, London, New York: Springer, 2010), pp. 81-98.
"Signs and Minds: An
Introduction to the Theory of Semiotic Systems", in J. H. Fetzer, ed.,
Aspects of Artificial Intelligence (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer
Academic Publishers, 1988), pp. 133-161.
Reprinted in J.
Fetzer, Computers and Cognition: Why Minds are Not Machines (Dordrecht,
The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001), pp 43-71.
"Program Verification:
The Very Idea", Communications of the ACM (September 1988), pp. 1048-1063.
Reprinted in T.
Colburn, J. H. Fetzer, and T. Rankin, eds., Program Verification (Dordrecht,
The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993), pp. 321-358.
Reprinted in J.
Fetzer, Computers and Cognition: Why Minds are Not Machines (Dordrecht,
The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001), pp. 183-220.
"ACM Forum: Response
from the Author", Communications of the ACM (March 1989), pp. 288-289.
"Technical
Correspondence: The Author's Response", Communications of the ACM (March
1989), pp. 377-381.
"Language and
Mentality: Computational, Representational, and Dispositional
Conceptions", Behaviorism (Spring 1989), pp. 21-39.
Reprinted in D.
Cole, J. H. Fetzer, and T. Rankin, eds., Philosophy, Mind, and Cognitive
Inquiry (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990),
pp. 377-402.
Reprinted in J.
Fetzer, Computers and Cognition: Why Minds are Not Machines (Dordrecht,
The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001), pp. 73-98.
"Technical
Correspondence: The Author's Response", Communications of the ACM (April
1989), pp. 510-512.
"ACM Forum: Patents
and Programs", Communications of the ACM (June 1989), pp. 675-676.
"ACM Forum: Another
Point of View", Communications of the ACM (August 1989), pp. 920-921.
"Mathematical Proofs
of Computer System Correctness: A Response", Notices of the AMS (December
1989), pp. 1353-1354.
"Evolution,
Rationality, and Testability", Synthese (March 1990), pp. 423-439.
"The Final Word on
Program Verification", Notices of the AMS (May/June 1990), pp. 562-563.
"The Frame Problem:
Artificial Intelligence Meets David Hume", Expert Systems (1990), pp.
219-232.
Reprinted in K. Ford
and P. Hayes, eds., Reasoning Agents in a Dynamic World (Greenwich, CN:
JAI Press, 1991), pp. 55-69.
"Artificial
Intelligence Meets David Hume: A Response to Patrick Hayes", Expert
Systems (1990), pp. 239-247.
Reprinted in K. Ford
and P. Hayes, eds., Reasoning Agents in a Dynamic World (Greenwich, CN:
JAI Press, 1991), pp. 77-85.
"The Workshop on
Defeasible Reasoning: Comments", SIGART Bulletin (January 1991), pp. 5-7,
pp. 16-17, p. 21, p. 28, pp. 31-33, pp. 36-37.
"Aspects of the Theory
of Definition", in J. H. Fetzer, D. Shatz, and G. Schlesinger, eds.,
Definitions and Definability: Philosophical Perspectives (Dordrecht, The
Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991), pp. 3-17.
"Primitive Concepts:
Habits, Conventions, and Laws", in J. H. Fetzer, D. Shatz, and G.
Schlesinger, eds., Definitions and Definability: Philosophical
Perspectives (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
1991), pp. 51-68.
Reprinted in J.
Fetzer, Computers and Cognition: Why Minds are Not Machines (Dordrecht,
The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001), pp. 25-42.
"Philosophical Aspects
of Program Verification", Minds and Machines (May 1991), pp. 197-216.
Reprinted in T.
Colburn, J. H. Fetzer, and T. Rankin, eds., Program Verification (Dordrecht,
The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993), pp. 403-427.
Reprinted under the
title, "Program Verification", in A. Kent and J. Williams, eds.,
Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology Vol. 28 (New York, NY:
Marcel Dekker, 1993), pp. 237-254.
Reprinted under the
title, "Program Verification", in A. Kent and J. Williams, eds.,
Encyclopedia of Microprocessors, Vol. 14 (New York, NY: Marcel Dekker,
1994), pp. 47-64.
Reprinted in J.
Fetzer, Computers and Cognition: Why Minds are Not Machines (Dordrecht,
The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001), pp. 221-245.
"What's Wrong with
Salmon's History: The Third Decade", Philosophy of Science (June 1992),
pp. 246-262
"Connectionism and
Cognition: Why Fodor and Pylyshyn are Wrong", in A. Clark and R. Lutz,
eds., Connectionism in Context (Heidelberg, FRG: Springer-Verlag, 1992),
pp. 37-56.
Reprinted (in
Finnish) in E. Marjomaa and T. Vaden, eds., Ihmisen Tiedonkasittely,
Symbolien Manipulointi ja Konnektionismi (Tampereen Yliopiston
Jaljennepalvelu, 1991), pp. 1-31.
"Goldman has Not
Defeated Folk Functionalism", Behavioral and Brain Sciences (March 1993),
pp. 42-43.
"Peirce and
Propensities", in E. C. Moore, ed., Charles S. Peirce and Philosophy of
Science (Birmingham, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1993), pp. 60-71.
"Evolution Needs a
Modern Theory of the Mind", Behavioral and Brain Sciences (December 1993),
pp. 759-760.
"The TTT is Not the Final Word", THINK (June 1993), pp. 34-36.
"The Argument for
Mental Models is Unsound", Behavioral and Brain Sciences (June 1993), pp.
347-348.
"Evidential
Probabilities are Not Enough", Computational Intelligence (February 1994),
pp. 49-52.
"Mental Algorithms:
Are Minds Computational Systems?", Pragmatics and Cognition 2 (1994), pp.
1-29.
Reprinted in J.
Fetzer, Computers and Cognition: Why Minds are Not Machines (Dordrecht,
The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001), pp. 101-129.
"Creative Thinking
Presupposes the Capacity for Thought", Behavioral and Brain Sciences
(September 1994), pp. 539-540.
"Logical Reasoning and
Domain Specificity: A Critique of the Social Exchange Theory of Reasoning"
(with Paul Davies and Tom Foster), Biology and Philosophy (January 1995),
pp. 1-37.
"Minds and Machines:
Behaviorism, Dualism, and Beyond", Stanford Humanities Review 4 (1995),
pp. 251-265.
Reprinted in J.
Fetzer, Computers and Cognition: Why Minds are Not Machines (Dordrecht,
The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001), pp. 3-21.
"Ethics and
Evolution", in J. Hurd, ed., Investigating the Biological Foundations of
Human Morality (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1996), pp. 223-242.
"Computer Reliability and Public Policy: Limits of Knowledge of
Computer-Based Systems", Social Philosophy and Policy 13 (Summer 1996),
pp. 229-266
Reprinted in E.
Paul, F. Miller, and J. Paul, eds., Scientific Innovation, Philosophy,
and Public Policy (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp.
229-266.
Reprinted in J.
Fetzer, Computers and Cognition: Why Minds are Not Machines (Dordrecht,
The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001), pp. 229-266.
"Escaping the
Propositional Prison", The Monist (July 1997), pp. 378-381.
"Thinking and
Computing: Computers as Special Kinds of Signs", Minds and Machines 7
(August 1997), pp. 345-364.
"Intelligence vs.
Mentality: Important but Independent Concepts", in A. Meystel, ed.,
Proceedings of the 1997 International Conference on Intelligent Systems
and Semiotics (Gaithersburg, MD: National Institute of Standards and
Technology, 1997), pp. 493-498.
"Philosophy and
Computer Science: Reflections on the Program Verification Debate", in T.
Bynum and J. H. Moor, eds., The Digital Phoenix: How Computers are
Changing Philosophy (Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell,1998), pp. 253-273.
Reprinted in J.
Fetzer, Computers and Cognition: Why Minds are Not Machines (Dordrecht,
The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001), pp. 247-267.
"Introduction"
(co-authored with Paul Humphreys), in P. Humphreys and J. Fetzer, eds.,
The New Theory of Reference (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic
Publishers, 1998), pp. vii-xiii.
"Computer Systems: The
Uncertainty of Their Reliability", Bridges 5 (1998), pp. 197-215.
"People are Not Computers: (Most) Thought Processes are Not Computational
Procedures", Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial
Intelligence 10 (1998), pp. 371-391.
Reprinted in J.
Fetzer, Computers and Cognition: Why Minds are Not Machines (Dordrecht,
The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001), pp. 153-180.
"Group Selection and
the Evolution of Culture", in V. Falger, P. Meyer, and J. van der Dennen,
eds., Research in Biopolitics: Sociobiology and Politics (Stamford, CT:
JAI Press, 1998), pp. 3-15.
"Philosophy and
Computer Science: Reflections on the Program Verification Debate", in T.
Bynum and J. H. Moor, eds., The Digital Phoenix: How Computers are
Changing Philosophy (Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell,
1998), pp. 253-273.
Reprinted in J.
Fetzer, ed., Computers and Cognition: Why Minds are Not Machines (Dordrecht,
The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001), pp. 247-267.
Published in Italian
translation under the title, Capitolo quattordici Filosofia e
informatica: riflessioni sul dibattito sulla verifica dei programmi, in
La Fenice Digitale: come i computer stanno camiando la filosofia (Milano,
Italy: Arogeo, 2000), pp. 277-300.
"Introduction"
(co-authored with Paul Humphreys), in P. Humphreys and J. Fetzer, eds.,
The New Theory of Reference (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic
Publishers, 1998), pp. vii-xiii.
"The Role of Models in
Computer Science", The Monist 82 (1999), pp. 20-36.
"Deduction and Mental
Models: A Discussion Review of P. N. Johnson-Laird and R. M. J. Byrne,
Deduction", Minds and Machines (February 1999), pp. 105-110.
"Mental Models:
Reasoning without Rules", Minds and Machines (February 1999), pp. 119-125.
Errata, Minds and Machines (August 1999), p. 457.
"Editor's Introduction", J. Fetzer, ed., Science, Explanation, and
Rationality (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2000), xv + xxix.
"The Paradoxes of
Hempelian Explanation", in J. Fetzer, ed., Science, Explanation, and
Rationality (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 111-137.
"Computing is at Best
a Special Kind of Thinking", in B. Elevitch, ed., Philosophy of Mind and
Philosophy of Psychology, Proceedings of the 20th World Congress of
Philosophy, Vol. 6 (2000), pp. 103-113.
"Editor's
Introduction", J. Fetzer, ed., The Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel (New York,
NY: Oxford University Press, 2001), xiii + xxxiii.
"Introduction", in J.
Fetzer, ed., Consciousness Evolving (Amsterdam, NL: John Benjamins, 2002),
pp. xiii-xix.
"In Memoriam: Wesley
C. Salmon (1925-2001)", Synthese 132/1-2 (July-August 2002), pp. 1-3.
"Guest Editor's
Introduction", Synthese 132/1-2 (July-August 2002), pp. 5-8.
"Propensities and
Frequencies: Inference to the Best Explanation", Synthese 132/1-2
(July-August 2002), pp. 27-61.
Reprinted in E.
Eells and J. Fetzer, eds., The Place of Probability in Science (Dordrecht,
Heidelberg, London, New York: Springer, 2010), pp. 323-351.
"Evolving
Consciousness: The Very Idea!", Evolution and Cognition 8/2 (2002), pp.
230-240.
"Consciousness and
Cognition: Semiotic Conceptions of Bodies and Minds", in Q. Smith and A.
Jokic, eds., Aspects of Consciousness (Oxford, UK: The Clarendon Press,
2003), pp. 295-322.
"Carl G. Hempel", in
Dematteis, P. and L. B. McHenry, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol.
279: American Philosophers 1950-2000 (Detroit/New York: Thompson Gale,
2003), pp. 89-99.
"The Philosophy of AI
and Its Critique", in Luciano Floridi, ed., The Blackwell Guide to the
Philosophy of Computing and Information (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers,
2004), pp. 119-134.
"Information: Does it
Have to be True?", Minds and Machines 14/2 (May 2004), pp. 223-229.
"Disinformation: The
Use of False Information", Minds and Machines 14/2 (May 2004), pp.
231-240.
"The Ethics of Belief:
Taking Religion Out of Public Policies", Bridges 11/3-4 (Fall/Winter
2004), pp. 247-278.
"What is Abduction? An
Assessment of Jaakko Hintikka's Conception", in D. Kolak and J. Symons,
eds., Quantifiers, Questions, and Quantum Physics (Dordrecht, The
Netherlands: Springer, 2004), pp. 119-134.
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Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd edition (New York, NY: MacMillan Reference
Books, 2006).
"The Frame Problem",
The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd edition (New York, NY: MacMillan
Reference Books, 2006).
"Foreward", in A.
Louls, T. Gudwin, and J. Queiroz, eds., Artificial Cognition Systems
(London, UK: Idea Group Publishing, 2007), pp. vi-vii.
"Preface" (with Ellery
Eells), in E. Eells and J. Fetzer, eds., The Place of Probability in
Science (Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London, New York: Springer, 2010), pp.
vii-viii.
"Introduction" (with
Ellery Eells), in E. Eells and J. Fetzer, eds., The Place of Probability
in Science (Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London, New York: Springer, 2010), pp.
xv-xxxiv.
"Is Evolution an
Optimizing Process?", in E. Eells and J. Fetzer, eds., The Place of
Probability in Science (Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London, New York: Springer,
2010), pp. 163-177.
"Hempel, Carl",
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (10 September 2010).
"Evolution and
Atheism: Has Griffin reconciled Science and Religion?", Synthese
(forthcoming).
"Minds and Machines:
Limits to Simulations of Thought and Action", Signs and Semiotic Systems
(forthcoming).
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"Discussion Review:
Achinstein's Law and Explanation", Philosophy of Science (September 1975),
pp. 320-333.
"Discussion Review:
Chalmer's What is this thing called Science?", Erkenntnis (November 1979),
pp. 393-404.
"Critical Study:
Wolgast's Paradoxes of Knowledge", Philosophia (March 1983), pp. 403-421.
"Critical Notice:
Wesley Salmon's Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the
World", Philosophy of Science (December 1987), pp. 597-610.
"Are There Laws of
Nature? Critical Notice: van Fraassen's Laws and Symmetry", Philosophical
Books (April 1991), pp. 65-75.
"Critical Notice:
Kitcher and Salmon, eds., Scientific Explanation, and Salmon, Four Decades
of Scientific Explanation", Philosophy of Science (June 1991), pp.
288-306.
"What Makes
Connectionism Different? Discussion Review: W. Ramsey, S. Stich, and D.
Rumelhart, eds., Philosophy and Connectionist Theory", Pragmatics and
Cognition 2 (1994), pp. 327-348.
Reprinted in J.
Fetzer, Computers and Cognition: Why Minds are Not Machines (Dordrecht,
The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001), pp. 131-152.
"Biological
Adaptations and Evolutionary Epistemology. Discussion Review: Henry
Plotkin, Darwin Machines and the Nature of Knowledge", Adaptive Behavior 4
(1995), pp. 201-210.
"Are there Animal
Minds? Discussion Review: M. S. Dawkins, Through Our Eyes Only: The Search
for Animal Consciousness", The Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems
19 (Spring 1996), pp. 187-192.
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European Sociobiological Society Newsletter No. 44 (May 1997), pp.
17-24.
"Discussion Review:
Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind", European Sociobiological
Newsletter (September 1998), pp. 18-23.
Reprinted in The
Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems 21 (1998),
pp. 229-233.
"Discussion Review:
Robert Almeder, Harmless Naturalism", Journal for Scientific Exploration
18 (2004), pp. 683-689.
Book
Reviews:
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The Philosophy of Karl Popper", Philosophy of Science (September 1978),
pp. 491-493.
"Review: Skyrm's
Causal Necessity", Philosophy of Science (June 1981), pp. 329-335.
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(July 1983), pp. 165-167.
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The Nature of Explanation", Philosophy of Science (September 1984), pp.
516-519.
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What is a Law of Nature?/Cartwright's How the Laws of Physics Lie",
Philosophical Books (April 1985), pp. 120-124.
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Reviews (March 1989), pp. 121-124.
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SIGART Bulletin (January 1992), pp. 6-7.
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(1993), pp. 339-341.
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15-17.
"Philosophy and
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Sex, and Science", The Quarterly Review of Biology (September 1994), pp.
376-378.
"Review: Sheets-Johnstone's
The Roots of Thinking", Philosophical Psychology 7 (1994),
pp. 397-399.
"Return to Animal
Mind: A Reply to Aiken's Comments on a Review", Human Ethology Bulletin
(December 1995), pp. 5-6.
"Review: Daniel
Dennett, Kinds of Minds", Philosophical Psychology 10(1997), pp. 113-115.
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Page", APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computing 97 (1998), pp. 54-55.
Applied
Philosophical Research
Co-Authored Books:
AMERICAN
ASSASSINATION: The Strange Death of Senator Paul Wellstone (with Don
"Four Arrows" Jacobs) (Brooklyn, NY:Voxpop, 2004), xviii + 188 pp.
Edited
Books:
ASSASSINATION SCIENCE:
Experts Speak Out on the Death of JFK (Chicago, IL: Open Court/Catfeet
Press, 1998), xvi + 464 pp.
MURDER IN DEALEY
PLAZA: What We Know Now that We Didn't Know Then (Chicago, IL: Open Court/Catfeet
Press, 2000), xii + 468 pp. + 16 pp. Color Insert Section
THE GREAT ZAPRUDER
FILM HOAX: Deceit and Deception in the Death of JFK (Chicago, IL: Open
Court/Catfeet Press, 2003), xx + 496 pp.
THE 9/11 CONSPIRACY:
The Scamming of America (Chicago, IL: Open Court/Catfeet Press, 2007),
xxii + 322 pp.
General
Articles:
"A Piece of My Mind:
Lundberg, JFK and JAMA", The Third Decade (March 1993), pp. 35-40.
Reprinted in
Harrison E. Livingstone, Killing the Truth (New York, NY: Carroll &
Graf, 1993), pp.
635-641.
Reprinted in J. H.
Fetzer, ed., Assassination Science (Chicago, IL: Open Court/Catfeet
Press, 1998), pp. 27-36.
"JFK's Assassination:
Conspiracy, Forensic Science, and Common Sense", in Harrison E.
Livingstone, Killing the Truth (New York, NY: Carroll & Graf, 1993), pp.
642-648.
Reprinted under the
title, "Thinking Critically about JFK's Assassination", in J. H. Fetzer,
ed., Assassination Science (Chicago, IL: Open Court/Catfeet Press,
1998), pp. 85-92.
"The Zapruder Film and
the Language of Proof", Kennedy Assassination Chronicles 2 (Winter 1996),
pp. 40-42.
"The Death of JFK", in
J. H. Fetzer, ed., Assassination Science (Chicago, IL: Open Court/Catfeet
Press, 1998), pp. 1-22.
"Assassination Science
and the Language of Proof", in J. H. Fetzer, ed., Assassination Science
(Chicago, IL: Open Court/Catfeet Press, 1998), pp. 349-371.
"Artful Deceptions and
Other Fallacies: A Page from Posner", The Fourth Decade (January 1998),
pp. 8-12.
"Three Shots in Three
Seconds: How the Nation's Press Misleads the American People", Kennedy
Assassination Chronicles (Spring 1998), pp. 24-29.
"A Reply to Hal Verb",
The Fourth Decade 5 (May 1998), pp. 13-17.
"Where were You when
JFK was Shot?", The Dealey Plaza Echo (United Kingdom, November 1999), pp.
26-29.
"'Smoking Guns' in the
Death of JFK", in J. H. Fetzer, ed., Murder in Dealey Plaza (Chicago, IL:
Open Court/Catfeet Press, 2000), pp. 1-15.
"Jesse Curry's JFK
Assassination File: Could Oswald Have Been Convicted?", in J. H. Fetzer,
ed., Murder in Dealey Plaza (Chicago, IL: Open Court/Catfeet Press, 2000),
pp. 361-370.
"Preface", The Great Zapruder Film Hoax (Chicago, IL: Open Court/Catfeet
Press, 2003), pp. ix-xx.
"Prologue: Fraud and Fabrication in the Death of JFK", The Great Zapruder
Film Hoax (Chicago, IL: Open Court/Catfeet Press, 2003), pp. 1-28.
"Which
Film is 'The
Zapruder Film'?" (with Scott A. Lederer), The Great Zapruder Film Hoax
(Chicago, IL: Open Court/Catfeet Press, 2003), pp. 29-44.
Reprinted in assassinationresearch.com 2/2
(2003).
Distorting the Photographic Record: 'Death in Dealey Plaza'", The Great
Zapruder Film Hoax (Chicago, IL: Open Court/Catfeet Press, 2003), pp.
427-436.
Reprinted in assassinationresearch.com 2/2
(2003).
"Reasoning about Assassinations: Critical Thinking in Political Contexts",
International Journal of the Humanities, Vol. 3 (2005/2006), pp.
1447-9508.
"Preface: The 9/11 Conspiracy (Chicago, IL: Open Court/Catfeet Press,
2007), pp. ix-xix.
"Thinking about 'Conspiracy Theories': 9/11 and JFK", The 9/11 Conspiracy
(Chicago, IL: Open Court/Catfeet Press, 2007), pp. 43-74.
"Moorman/Zapruder Revisited", DEALEY PLAZA ECHO 13/1 (2009), pp. 6-33.
Electronic Publications:
"The Lone-Nutter
Refutation", assassinationresearch.com 1/1
(2002)
Reprinted in assassinationscience.com (2004);
"On the Origins of the
Assassination of JFK", assassinationresearch.com 1/1
(2002)
"Mrs. Paine's Garage:
A Work of Deception from Beginning to End", assassinationresearch.com 1/1
(2002)
Reprinted in The
Dealey Plaza Echo 6/2 (2002), pp.
26-32
Reprinted in Kennedy
Assassination Chronicles 8/1 (2002)
"Editor's Preface: Gregory Douglas and Regicide: Both Fascinating and
Frustrating",assassinationresearch.com 1/2
(2002)
"Regicide: Are We Closing in on the Whole Truth about JFK?", assassinationresearch.com 1/2
(2002)
"Reflections on Madeleine", Kennedy
Assassination Chronicles 8/2
(2002),http://www.jfklancer.com/kSum02.html
"Editor's Preface: Ira David Wood III: The Assassination Chronology", assassinationresearch.com 2/1
(2003)
"Editor's Preface: The Zapruder Film: Recent Research and Legal Issues", assassinationresearch.com 2/2
(2003)
"The NTSB Failed
Wellstone" (with John P. Costella), fromthewilderness.com (6
July 2005)
Reprinted in From
the Wilderness 8/5 (31 July 2005), pp.
15-22
"Reclaiming History: A Closed Mind Perpetrating a Fraud on the Public", assassinationresearch.com 5/1
(2007), 11 pp.
Reprinted in Paris
Flammonde, Indices of the Assassination of
America, Book 4 (Stroudsburg, PA; Scanuscryption, 2007), pp. 1743-1756
Reprinted in The
Dealey Plaza Echo (November 2007), pp. 35-45.
"New Proof of JFK Film Fakery", OpEdNews, (5 February 2008).
"Another Attempted Reenactment of the Death of JFK", with David W.
Mantik, M.D., Ph.D., OpEdNews (21 November 2008).
"Moorman in the Street", http://JFKresearch.com/Moorman,
(January 2009).
"Tink
Rolls the Dice", http://JFKresearch.com/Moorman2,
(March 2009).
"Zapruder JFK Film Impeached by Moorman JFK Polaroid", OpEdNews, (28
March 2009).
"What Didn't Happen at the Pentagon", (11 June 2009).
Reprinted (with
edits) as "What
Didn't Happen at the Pentagon", (25 January 2010).
"False Flag Attacks in Argentina: 1992 and 1994" (with
Adrian Salbuchi), (11 June 2009).
"The Dartmouth JFK-Photo Fiasco" (with
Jim Moor), (11 June 2009).
Reprinted as "JFK
Assassination. How 'Patsies' Are Framed. The Case of Lee Harvey Oswald" (with
Jim Moor), (11 December 2009).
"American Assassination: What Happened to Paul Wellstone? Part I", (9
December 2009).
"American Assassination? What Happened to Paul Wellstone? Part II",
(11 December 2009).
"American Assassination? What Happened to Paul Wellstone? Part III",
(17 December 2009).
"Conspiracy Theories: A Triple-Header", (21 December 2009).
"Dealey Plaza Revisited: What Happened to JFK?", in John F. Kennedy:
History, Memory, Legacy, edited by John Williams et al. (2010), (19
November 2009).
Reprinted as "Dealey
Plaza Revisited: What Happened to JFK?", (19 November 2009).
"Unanswered Questions: Was 9/11 an 'Inside Job'?", (7 January 2010).
"Blowing the Whistle on Dartmouth: Hany Farid 'in the nation's service'",
(27 January 2010).
"New 9/11 Photos Released", (10 February 2010).
"Predator Drones: The Immoral Use of Autonomous Machines", (18 March
2010).
"US Government Official: JFK Cover-Up, Film Fabrication", Online
Journal, (7 April 2010).
"JFK and RFK: The Plots that Killed Them, The Patsies that Didn't",
voltairenet.com, (13 June 2010).
"Conspiracies and Conspiracism", Online Journal, (28 June 2010).
"Wikipedia as a 9/11 Disinformation Op", Online Journal, (6 July
2010).
Videotapes:
"JFK: The
Assassination, the Cover-Up, and Beyond", a 7-part lecture series. Written
and Directed by James H. Fetzer. 4:25:20. (1994)
"The Zapruder Film
Symposium", a 6-part public presentation organized and moderated by James
H. Fetzer. Produced by JFK Lancer Productions & Publications. 2
Videotapes. 4:12:00. (1996)
"Dallas Before 22
November 1963", A Conversation between Madeleine Duncan Brown and James H.
Fetzer. Produced by JFK Lancer Productions & Publications. 0:30:00. (1998)
"The Death of JFK", A
Professional Conference held at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
14-16 May 1999, organized and moderated by James H. Fetzer. 14 Videotapes.
15:49:00. (1999)
"The Zapruder Film
Symposium", A Professional Conference held at the University of Minnesota,
Duluth, 9-11 May 2003, organized and moderated by James H. Fetzer.
Forthcoming.
"The Science and the
Politics of 9/11: What's Controversial, What's Not", A Professional
Conference held at the Radisson Madison, Madison, WI, 3-5 August 2007,
organized and moderated by James H. Fetzer. 2 DVD-9s. 13:14:00. (2007)
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