Selected Publications
Selected Publications
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I. Points of View, Paraconsistent Logic, and Paradox
Science Generates Limit Paradoxes,
Eric Dietrich and Chris Fields, Axiomathes March 2015.
The Bishop and Priest: Toward a point-of-view based epistemology of true contradictions.
(2008). Logos Architekton, v. 2, n. 2, pp. 35-58.
II. Consciousness
The Paradox of Consciousness and the Realism/Anti-Realism Debate
Eric Dietrich and Julietta Rose (2009). Logos Architekton, v. 3, n. 1, pp. 7-37.
Introduction to Sisyphus's Boulder: Consciousness and the Limits of the Knowable.
Eric Dietrich and Valerie Hardcastle (2005). John Benjamins. And see this .
A Connecticut Yalie in King Descartes' Court:A review of Mind and Mechanism by
Drew McDermott.
Eric Dietrich and Valerie Gray Hardcastle (2002). Newsletter of the Cognitive
Science Society. June, 2002.
Consciousness and the Limits of Our Imaginations.
Eric Dietrich and Anthony Gillies (2001). Synthese v. 126, n. 3, pp. 361-381.
Zombies only seem logically possible: or How consciousness hides the truth of
Materialism: A Critical Review of The Consciousness Mind by David Chalmers.
(1998). Minds and Machines, 8 (3), pp. 441-461.
Let’s Dance! The Equivocation in Chalmers’ Dancing Qualia Argument.
Bram Van Heuveln, Eric Dietrich, Michiharu Oshima, Minds and Machines,
8, pp. 237- 249 (1998).
III.Analogy and Conceptual Change
Analogical insight: Toward unifying categorization and analogy.
Cognitive Processing,v 11, # 4 (2010), Page 331.
The Prepared Mind: The role of representational change in chance discovery.
Eric Dietrich, Art Markman, and Mike Winkley (2003). In Yukio Ohsawa and
Peter McBurney (eds.) Chance Discovery by Machines, Berlin: Springer-Verlag,
pp. 208-230
Analogy and conceptual change, or You can't step into the same mind twice.
(2000). In E. Dietrich and A. Markman (eds.) Cognitive Dynamics:
Conceptual change in humans and machines. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum,
pp. 265 – 294.
IV. Apocalyptic Philosophy
There Is No Progress in Philosophy. (2011). Essays in Philosophy, Vol. 12, No. 2,
"Philosophy's Future: Science or Something Else?. 329-344.
Also available at http://commons.pacificu.edu/eip/vol12/iss2/9
Homo sapiens 2.0: Building the better robots of our nature. (2011).
In M. Anderson and S. Anderson, (eds.), Machine Ethics, Cambridge University Press.
After the Humans are Gone. Philosophy Now, v. 61, May/June, 2007, 16-19.
V. Computationalism and Representation
Discrete Thoughts: Why cognition must use discrete representations
Eric Dietrich and Arthur Markman (2003). Mind and Language. v. 18, n. 1, pp. 95-119.
An ABSURDIST model vindicates a venerable theory
(2003). Trends in Cognitive Sciences, v. 7, n. 2, pp 57-59.
It Does So! Review of Jerry Fodor's The Mind Doesn't Work That Way: The scope and
limits of computational psychology. (2001). AI Magazine v. 22, n. 4, pp. 141-144.
Dynamical description versus dynamical modeling: Reply to Chemero,
Eric Dietrich and Arthur Markman (2001). Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5(8), p. 332.
Extending the classical view of representation.
Arthur Markman and Eric Dietrich (2000). Trends in Cognitive Science v. 4, n. 12,
pp. 470-475.
Cognitive Science and the Mechanistic Forces of Darkness, or Why the Computational
Science of Mind Suffers the Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Fortune.
(2000). Techné: eJournal of the Society for Philosophy and Technology, Winter.
The role of the frame problem in Fodor's modularity thesis: a case study of
rationalist cognitive science, Eric Dietrich and Chris Fields (1995)..
Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 7: 3.
Reprinted in Ford, K. and Pylyshyn, Z. (eds.) The Robot's Dilemma Revisited. Ablex.
pp. 9-24.
Computationalism , (1990) Social Epistemology, v. 4, n. 2, 135-154.
Semantics and the Computational Paradigm in Cognitive Psychology. Synthese 79,
119-141 (1989).
VI. Killing and Living
The Allure of the Serial Killer.
Eric Dietrich and Tara Fox Hall. In Sara Waller (ed). Serial Killers and Philosophy,
John Wiley.
VII. Evolutionary Psychology
On the Inappropriate Use of the Naturalistic Fallacy in Evolutionary Psychology.
David Wilson, Eric Dietrich, and Anne Clark (2003). Biology and Philosophy,
v. 18, 669-682.
VIII.Cognitive Science and Pluralism
Do nonclassical worlds entail dualism?
Commentary on “Eigenforms, Interfaces and Holographic Encoding: Toward
an Evolutionary Account of Objects and Spacetime,” by Chris Fields, et al.,
Constructivist Foundations, vol. 12, #3.
Explanatory Pluralism in Cognitive Science. Rick Dale, E. Dietrich, A. Chemero.(2009) Cognitive Science, v. 33, no. 2, pp. 739-742.
IX. JETAI Editorials
Subvert the Dominant Paradigm! A Review of Computationalism: New Directions
Edited by Matthias Scheutz, 2002.
Homo sapiens 2.0: Why we should build the better robots of our nature. 2001,
13 (4), 323-328.
Banbury Bound, or Can a machine be conscious? 2001, 13 (2), 177-180.
Concepts: Fodor's little semantic BBs of thought -- A critical look at Fodor's theory
of concepts. 2001, 13 (2), 89-94.
AI, Concepts, and the Paradox of Mental Representation, with a brief discussion of
psychological essentialism. 2001, 13 (1), 1-7.
A Counterexample to All Future Dynamic Systems Theories of Cognition. 2000,
12(2), 377-382.
Dynamic systems and paradise regained, or how to avoid being a calculator. 1999,
11(4), 473-478.
Fodor's gloom, or What does it mean that dualism seems true? 1999, 11 (2), 145-152.
AI, situatedness, creativity, and intelligence; or the Evolution of the little hearing bones.
1996 8 (1), 1-6.
AI and the Mechanistic Forces of Darkness 1995, 7 (2), 155-161.
AI and the tyranny of Galen, or Why evolutionary psychology and cognitive ethology
are important to AI. 1994, 6 (4), 325-330.