Keeley Research Online

Books

• Brian L. Keeley, ed. (2005) Paul Churchland. Series: Contemporary Philosophy in Focus. Cambridge University Press. To order a copy in the U.S.A. click here.

Table of Contents:

1. Brian L. Keeley, “Introduction: Becoming Paul M. Churchland (1942-)”
2. José Luis Bermúdez, "Arguing For Eliminativism"
3.Pete Mandik, "The Introspectibility of Brain States as Such"
4. Jesse J. Prinz, "Empiricism and State Space Semantics"
5. Aarre Laakso & Garrison W. Cottrell, "Churchland on Connectionism"
6. C. A. Hooker, "Reduction as Cognitive Strategy"
7. William H. Krieger & Brian L. Keeley, "The Unexpected Realist"
8. Daniel C. Dennett, "Two Steps Closer on Consciousness"

 

Papers

• Brian L. Keeley (2004) “Anthropomorphism, Primatomorphism, Mammalomorphism: Understanding cross-species comparisons.” Biology & Philosophy, 19, 521-540.

• Brian L. Keeley (2003) “Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition! More thoughts on conspiracy theories,” Journal of Social Philosophy, 34, 104-110.

(Reprinted in Conspiracy Theories: The Philosophical Debate, David Coady, ed., Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2006.)
• Brian L. Keeley (2002) Review of Leslie Brother's Mistaken Identity: The Mind-Brain Problem Reconsidered (New York: SUNY, 2001). Brain and Mind, 3, 409-12.
• Brian L. Keeley (2002) “Making sense of the senses: Individuating modalities in humans and other animals,” The Journal of Philosophy, 99, 5-28.
• Brian L. Keeley (2002) “Eye gaze information processing: A case study in primate cognitive neuroethology,” in The Cognitive Animal, M. Bekoff, C. Allen, & G. Burghardt, eds. MIT Press, 443-450.
• Brian L. Keeley (2001) “Is there a special, conceptual problem of mental disease (beyond the problem of disease itself)?”Unpublished. (A paper version does not exist yet, but you can view the Powerpoint presentation from the SCPC.)
• Brian L. Keeley (2000) “Shocking lessons from electric fish: The theory and practice of multiple realization,” Philosophy of Science, 67, 444-465.

• Brian L. Keeley (2000) “Neuroethology and the philosophy of cognitive science,” Philosophy of Science, 67 (Proceedings), S404-S417.

(Part of a symposium on “Studies in the Interaction of Psychology and Neuroscience” with Gary Hatfield and William Hirstein.)

• Brian L. Keeley (1999) “Of conspiracy theories,” The Journal of Philosophy, 96, 109-126.

(Translated as “A Konspirációs Elméletekról,” Holmi, XII, 1371-1386. (Agnes Erdelyi’s translation for a Hungarian cultural journal.))
(Reprinted in Conspiracy Theories: The Philosophical Debate, David Coady, ed., Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2006.
(To be translated as “De las Teorías de Conspiración “ in Teorias de las conspiración, Juan Cristóbal Cruz, ed. Publicaciones Cruz O. S. A, forthcoming in Mexico.)
• Brian L. Keeley (1999) “Fixing content and function in neurobiological systems: The neuroethology of electroreception,” Biology & Philosophy, 14, 395-430.
• Brian L. Keeley (1999) Review of C. Allen & M. Bekoff, Species of mind: The philosophy and biology of cognitive ethology. Philosophical psychology, 12 (4), 543-546.
• Brian L. Keeley (1998) “Artificial life.” in the Encyclopedia of Semiotics. P. Bouissac, ed., Oxford University Press, 48-51.
• Brian L. Keeley (1998) “Artificial life for philosophers.” Philosophical psychology, 11 (2): 251-260.
• Brian L. Keeley (1997) “Evaluating artificial life and artificial organisms,” in Artificial Life V: Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, C. G. Langton & K. Shimohara (eds.). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 264-271.
• Brian L. Keeley (1995) “Large, slow changes in electric organ discharge associated with social context in Eigenmannia” in M. Burrows, T. Matheson, P. L. Newland & H. Schuppe (eds.), Nervous Systems and Behaviour: Proceedings of the 4th international congress of neuroethology. Stuttgart: Verlag, 1995: 415. (Abstract)
• Brian L. Keeley (1994) “Against the global replacement: On the application of the philosophy of artificial intelligence to artificial life,” in Artificial Life III: Proceedings of the Workshop on Artificial Life, C. G. Langton (ed.). Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley, Advanced Book Program, 569-587.

Dissertation

• Brian L. Keeley (1997) Cognitive Science as the Computational Neuroethology of Intelligent Behavior: Why Biological Facts are Important for Explaining Intelligent Behavior. Ph.D. in Cognitive Science and Philosophy, University of California, San Diego
Abstracts

Front matter

1. "Introduction: the advantage of two hands"

2. "Comparison and cognition"

3. "Fixing content and function in neurobiological systems: The neuroethology of electroreception"

4. "A scientific intermission: Large, slow changes of electric organ discharge frequency in the weakly electric fish, Eigenmannia virescens"

5. "Dogs, dogfish, and Dretske's externalist theory of experience"

6. "Historical considerations"

7. "Microfunctionalism"

References


Last Modified: 24 March, 2006.