Philosophical research is a major emphasis at Stony Brook, with a number of very different areas of cutting-edge work. Here are some other groups, projects and areas worth mentioning:

General Research

Group for Logic and Formal Semantics

An informal collaborative group of faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates which has produced a range of work in semantic paradox and chaos, fractal images and formal systems, and game theory and cellular automata.

Philosophy and Literature

The Philosopher's Annual

Faculty Papers

David Allison

  1. " Reading the Case of Christopher: Munchausen's by Proxy Syndrome"
  2. "Iconologies: Reading Simulations with Plato and Nietzsche"
  3. "Transgression and Its Itinerary"

Edward S. Casey

  1. "Smooth Spaces and Rough-Edged Places: The Hidden History of Place"

Patrick Grim

  1. "Evolution of Communication in Perfect and Imperfect Worlds"
  2. "Evolution of Communication with a Spatialized Genetic Algorithm"
  3. "A Fuzzy Fairly Happy Face"
  4. "Undecidability in the Spatialized Prisoner's Dilemma: Some Philosophical Implications (hypertext with graphics)"
  5. "Truth, Omniscience, and Cantorian Arguments: An Exchange"
  6. "Fractal Images of Formal Systems"
  7. The Philosophical Computer: Exploratory Essays in Philosophical Computer Modeling

Dick Howard

  1. "Rethinking the Political: The French Strikes of 1995"
  2. "Fondamentalisme politique et Politique fondamentaliste aux USA"
  3. "Zur Frage der zivilen Gesellschaft heute"

Don Ihde

  1. "Expanding Hermeneutics"
  2. "Why Not Science Critics?"
  3. "Whole Earth Measurements"

Peter Ludlow

  1. "Logical Form and the Hidden Indexical Theory: a Reply to Schiffer"
  2. "The Adicity of 'Believes' and the Hidden Indexical Theory"
  3. "Externalism, Self-Knowledge, and the Prevalence of Slow Switching"
  4. "Social Externalism, Self- Knowledge, and Memory"
  5. "Social Externalism and Memory: A Problem?"  
  6. "Do T-Theories Display Senses?"
  7. "Formal Rigor and Linguistic Theory"
  8. "Presupposition"
  9. "Review of Mark Crimmins' Talk About Beliefs "

Gary Mar

  1. "Chaos in Cooperation: Continuous-Valued Prisoner's Dilemmas in Infinite-Valued Logic"
  2. "The Modal Unity of Anselm's Proslogion "
  3. "Real Life"
  4. The Philosophical Computer: Exploratory Essays in Philosophical Computer Modeling

Miller

  1. "Human Knowledge and God in Cusanus' De docta ignorantia "
  2. "Remarks on Eckhart's influence on Cusanus' 1456 sermon"
  3. "Ubi est qui natus est rex Iudaeorum"

Michael Simon

  1. "Law, Technology, and the Environment"

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