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.
    

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    philosophy papers

  1. Ontological questions are not quantificational questions
    (manuscript)
  2. Ontology, from a fundamentalist point of view
    (manuscript)
  3. Is quantifier variance metaphysically relevant?
    (manuscript)
  4. Grounding the hierarchy  [with Justin Clarke-Doane]
    (manuscript)
  5. Problems for testimonial acquaintance    [ penultimate draft ]
    (NOÛS 42: 727-745, 2008)
   
    artificial life papers
  1. A General Framework for Evolutionary Activity Statistics
    (Proceedings of ECAL 2003)
  2. Collective Intelligence of the Artificial Life Community on its Own Successes, Failures, and Future
    (Artificial Life 9:2, 2003)
  3. Visualizing Adaptive Evolutionary Activity of Allele Tokens and of Phenotypic Equivalence Classes of Alleles
    (Workshops from the Artificial Life VIII Conference, 2002)
  4. Cryptographic Hash Functions Based on Artificial Life
    (unpublished)