Distinguished Teaching Professor Patrick Grim

Books:

The Philosophical Computer MIT Press/Bradford Books

The Incomplete Universe, MIT Press/Bradford Books

The Philosopher's Annual Volumes I through XXIV-- an attempt to collect the ten best articles of the year

Philosphy of Science and the Occult (SUNY Press)

Mind & Consciousness: 5 Questions -- in preparation

Multimedia

Questions of Value - 24 lectures in ethics and axiology (The Teaching Company)

Philosophy of Mind: Brains, Thinking Machines, and the Mysteries of Consciousness - 24 lectures on interdisciplinary issues in philosophy of mind, psychology, and neuroscience. (forthcoming from the Teaching Company)

Articles

Philosophical Logic

Plenum Theory
(with Nicholas Rescher)
forthcoming in Noûs

The Buried Quantifier
Analysis 65 (2005), 95-104

What is a Contradiction?
Graham Priest, JC Beall, and B. Armour-Garb, The Law of Non-Contradiction: New Philosophcial Essays, Oxford University Press

Fractal Images of Formal Systems
(with Paul St. Denis)
from the Journal of Philosophical Logic 26 (1997), 181-222

A Fuzzy Fairly Happy Face
for the New York vagueness group

There is no Set of All Truths
Analysis 44 (1984), 206-208

Computation Modeling

Modeling Prejudice Reduction: Spatialized Game Theory and the Contact Hypothesis
(with Evan Selinger, William Braynen, Robert Rosenberger, Randy Au, Nancy Louie, and John Connelly)
Public Affairs Quarterly 19 (2005), 95-126

Making Meaning Happen
(with Trina Kokalis, Ali Alai-Tafti, Nicholas Kilb and Paul St. Denis)
Journal for Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 16 (2004), 209-244
animated illustrations

Location, Location, Location: The Importance of Spatialization in Modeling Cooperation and Communication
(with Stephanie Wardach and Vincent Beltrani)
Interactive Studies: Social Behavior and Communication in Biological and Artifical Systems7 (2006), 43-78
figures

Reducing Prejudice: A Spatialized Game-Theoretic Model for the Contact Hypothesis
(with Evan Selinger, William Braynen, Robert Rosenberger, Randy Au, Nancy Louie, and John Connelly)
In Artificial Life IX: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Artifical Life, eds. Jordan Pollack, Mark Bedau, Phil Husbands, Takashi Ikegami, and Richard A. Watson. MIT Press 2004, 244-250

Boom and Bust: Enviornmental Variability Favors the Emergence of Communication
(with Trina Kokalis)
in Artificial Life IX: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Artifical Life, eds. Jordan Pollack, Mark Bedau, Phil Husbands, Takashi Ikegami, and Richard A. Watson. MIT Press 2004, 164-170

Learning to Communicate: The Emergence of Signaling in Spacialized Arrays of Neural Nets
(with Paul St. Denis and Trina Kokalis)
Adaptive Behavior 10 (2003), 45-70

Evolution of Communication with a Spatialized Genetic Algorithm
(with Trina Kokalis, Ali Tafti, and Nicholas Kilb)
Evolution of Communication 3 (2001), 105-134

Evolution of Communication in Perfect and Imperfect Worlds
(with Trina Kokalis, Ali Tafti, and Nicholas Kilb)
World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution 56 (2000), 179-197

Undecidability in the Spatialized Prisoner's Dilemma: Some Philosophical Implications (hypertext with graphics)
see also "The Undecidability of the Spatialized Prisoner's Dilemma," Theory and Decision 42 (1997), 53-80

Philosophy of Religion

Truth, Omniscience, and Cantorian Arguments: An Exchange (with Alvin Plantinga)
from Philosophical Studies 71 (1993), 267-306. See also "The Being That Knew Too Much," International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 47 (2000), 141-154

The Being that Knew Too Much
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 47 (2000), 141-154. Reprinted in Michael Martin and Rick Monnier, The Impossibility of God, Prometheus Books 2003, 408-422

Ethics

Free Will in Context
Behavioral Science and the Law 25 (2007), 183-201

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