School of History and Philosophy of Science
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Recent papers and talks:
• Covid Heterodoxy in Three Layers (version 4C)
• Philosophers and Other Animals (in Aeon, with extra notes here).
• Models, Fictions, & Conditionals
• Gradualism and the Evolution of Experience
(Photo by Daniel Boud)
Other recent papers:
• Tolerance: A Hierarchical Analysis (with Ben Kerr). Preprint
• Reafference and the Origin of the Self in Early Nervous System Evolution, (Jékely, Godfrey-Smith, Keijzer),
• The Dual Landscape Model of Adaptation and Niche Construction (with Mark Tanaka and Ben Kerr). Preprint version here.
* A page with reviews and extra material related to Other Minds
• On The Coming Plague – a 1997 book review.
• Materialism, Then and Now [where ‘then’ is 1968]
• Evolving Across the Explanatory Gap
• Communication and Representation as Sender-Receiver Coordination (with Ron Planer).
* I am now also on twitter.
• In the Beginning There Was Information?
• Individuality, Subjectivity, and Minimal Cognition
• Art and Evolution (a book review).