Papers Here are some papers, organized by broad topic (click on the titles for pdf). Many of them are published, and the drafts available below are generally pre-proofed. Others are works in progress (comments welcomed). And others are here only in name, since they are not ready to share.

Papers

Here are some papers, organized by broad topic (click on the titles for pdf). Many of them are published, and the drafts available below are generally pre-proofed. Others are works in progress (comments welcomed). And others are here only in name, since they are not ready to share.

Perception and cognition

Perceiving and Desiring-A New Look at the Cognitive Penetrability of Experience (draft)

A dilemma for modular architectures of the mind-w/ Vincent Bergeron (draft)

Cognitive penetrability and the activity of perception (in preparation)

On the mistake of the imagery debate (in preparation)

Creativity

A metaphysics of creativity (appears in New Waves in Aesthetics. Ed. K. Stock and K. Thomson Jones. Palgrave. 2008)

Evolutionary Robotics and Creative Constraints -w/ Jon Bird (appears in Beyond the Brain: Embodied, Situated and Distributed Cognition. Ed. B. Hardy-Vallée and N. Payette. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2008)

Incubated Cognition and Creativity (appears in Journal of Consciousness Studies 14: 83-100. 2007)

An Ontology of Minimal Creativity (draft)

Minimally Creative Thought (draft)

Minimal Creativity, Evaluation, and Fractal Discrimination-w/ J. Bird (appears in Proceedings of the 4th International Joint Workshop on Computational Creativity. Ed. A. Cardoso and G. Wiggins. 2007)

Evolving Minimally Creative Robots- w/ J. Bird (appears in Proceedings of The 3rd Joint Workshop on Computational Creativity, European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Ed. S. Colton and A. Pease. 1-5. 2006)

Imagination

The Evaluative Character of Imaginative Resistance (appears in British Journal of Aesthetics 46: 347-405. 2006)

Art and Modal Knowledge (appears in Knowing Art: Essays in Epistemology and Aesthetics. Ed. M. Kieran and D. Lopes. Springer Press. 2006)

The Role of Imagination in Creative Cognition (in preparation; to appear in E. Paul and S.B. Kaufman (eds) The Philosophy of Creativity)

Cognitive science and aesthetics

Aesthetics and Cognitive Science (appears in Philosophy Compass 4: 715-33. 2009)

Aesthetics and Cognitive Science-w/ A. Coplan (in preparation; commissioned for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Cognitive science, artificial life, and robotics

Autonomy, Novelty, and Design: The Epistemology of Artificial Life Modeling-w/ J. Bird (in preparation)

Reviews

Review of Seeing, Doing, and Knowing by Mohan Matthen (appears in British Journal of Aesthetics 3:

46: 323-5. 2006)

Review of Recreative Minds by Gregory Currie and Ian Ravenscroft (appears in Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 62: 406-7. 2004)