Papers Here are some papers, organized by broad topic (click on the titles for pdf). Some papers may fall under more than one topic. 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). Some papers may fall under more than one topic. 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 (forthcoming in Philosophical Studies)

Cognitive penetrability (to appear in Philosophy Compass)

Modular architectures and informational encapsulation: A dilemma-w/ Vincent Bergeron (Draft-R&R)

Towards a Consequentialist Understanding of Cognitive Penetration (to appear in Cognitive Effects on Perception: New Philosophical Perspectives. Ed. A. Raftopoulos and J. Ziembekis)

On the dominance of vision-w/ Stephen Biggs (to appear in Perception and its Modalities: New directions in philosophy and cognitive science. Ed. D. Stokes, S. Biggs, and M. Matthen)

Cognitive penetrability and the activity of perception (in preparation)

Creativity

Minimally creative thought (forthcoming in Metaphilosophy)

The role of imagination in creativity (to appear in The Philosophy of Creativity. Ed. E. Paul and S.B. Kauffman, Oxford: Oxford University Press)

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-R&R)

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)

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

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)

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

Book

Imagination-co-authored with Jonathan Weinberg (in preparation; commissioned by Polity Press)

Edited volume

Perception and its Modalities Ed. with Stephen Biggs and Mohan Matthen (in preparation/under contract with Oxford University Press)

Research

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)