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michael j. raven |
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I am a 6th year PhD
student in
NYU's philosophy department.
My main areas of speciality are metaphysics and the philosophy of language, although I am also interested in epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and various episodes in the history of philosophy. I am currently finishing my dissertation on ontology and meta-metaphysics; my committee is Kit Fine (chair), Ted Sider, and Crispin Wright. Before NYU, I majored in philosophy at Reed College and did research in artificial life at Los Alamos National Laboratory. |
curriculum vitae
teaching
- current courses
- logic (spring 2009)
- past courses
- philosophy of language (fall 2008)
- belief, truth, and knowledge (summer 2008)
- logic
(summer 2007)
- philosophy
of mind (summer 2006)
- philosophy
of
language (summer 2005)
- history of ancient philosophy (summer 2004)
philosophy papers
- Ontological questions are not quantificational
questions
(manuscript) - Ontology, from a fundamentalist point of view
(manuscript) - Is quantifier variance metaphysically relevant?
(manuscript) - Grounding the hierarchy [with Justin
Clarke-Doane]
(manuscript) - Problems for
testimonial acquaintance [ penultimate
draft ]
(NOÛS 42: 727-745, 2008)
artificial life papers
- A
General Framework for Evolutionary Activity Statistics
(Proceedings of ECAL 2003)
- Collective
Intelligence of the Artificial
Life Community on its Own Successes, Failures, and Future
(Artificial Life 9:2, 2003)
- Visualizing
Adaptive Evolutionary Activity of Allele Tokens and of Phenotypic
Equivalence Classes of Alleles
(Workshops from the Artificial Life VIII Conference, 2002)
- Cryptographic
Hash Functions Based on
Artificial Life
(unpublished)