Philosopher in Residence
Visiting Scholar
Center for Complex Systems
University of Michigan



Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus
Group for Logic & Formal Semantics
Department of Philosophy
Stony Brook



BOOKS

Theory of Categories The Philosophical Computer
CDRom
The Incomplete Universe Mind and Consciousness:
5 Questions


Beyond Sets Reflexivity Philosophy of Science
and the Occult
The Philosopher's Annual
now available online at:
www..philosophersannual.org



EDITORSHIP

Editor, American Philosophical Quarterly, 2019 -
 
Editor, Computational Philosophy, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (With Daniel J. Singer)
 
Editor, Computational Modeling in Philosophy, Topical Issue, Open Philosophy 2019
Editor, Special Issues on Epistemology of Modeling and Simulation I and II, Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 24(3) and 24(4), 2012
Epistemology of Modeling and Simulation: Variations on a Theme, Philosophy and Technology 26(1), 2013

MULTIMEDIA


Questions of Value

Philosophy of Mind:
Brains, Consciousness, and Thinking Machines


The Philosopher's Toolkit
Mind-Body Philosophy

ARTICLES

appearing in these and other journals

Analysis Journal of Philosophical Logic Nous Philosophy of Science

Episteme Synthese Public Affairs Quarterly Adaptive Behavior

Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Theory & Decision Connections


Computational Modeling

The Punctuated Equilibrium of Scientific Change: A Bayesian Network Model
(with Frank Seidl, Calum McNamara, Isabell N. Astor and Caroline Diaso)
Synthese 200(4) (2022)
supplementary animation

Scientific Theories as Bayesian Nets: Structure and Evidence Sensitivity
(with Frank Seidl, Calum McNamara, Hinton E. Rago, Isabell N. Astor, Caroline Diaso and Peter Ryner)
Philosophy of Science 89 (2022): 42-69

Influence Theory
(with Nicholas Rescher)
Synthese 201(6) (2023): 1-53

Philosophy of Science, Network Theory, and Conceptual Change: Paradigm Shifts as Information Cascades
(with Joshua Kavner, Lloyd Shatkin & Manjari Trivedi)
In Euell Elliot and L. Douglas Kiel, eds., Complex Systems in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: Theory, Method, and Application. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2021)

Wisdom of Crowds, Wisdom of the Few: Expertise versus Diversity across Epistemic Landscapes
(with Daniel J. Singer, Aaron Bramson, Bennett Holman, Sean McGeehan & William J. Berger)
A version appears as “Diversity, Ability, and Expertise in Epistemic Communities,” Philosophy of Science 86 (2019): 98-123

Rational Social and Political Polarization
(with Daniel J. Singer, Aaron Bramson, Bennett Holman, Jiin Jung, Karen Kovaka, Anika Ranginani, &
William J. Berger)
Philosophical Studies 176 (2019), 2243-2267

Don’t Forget Forgetting: The Social Epistemic Importance of How We Forget
(with Daniel J. Singer, Aaron Bramson, Bennett Holman, Karen Kovaka, Jiin Jung & William J. Berger)
Synthese (2019), http://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02409-0

A Multidisciplinary Understanding of Polarization
(with Jiin Jung, Daniel J. Singer, Aaron Bramson, William J. Berger, Bennett Holman and Karen Kovaka)
Amerian Psychologist 74 (2019), 301-314

Modeling Epistemology: Examples and Analysis in Computational Philosophy of Science
In A. Del Barrio, C. J. Lynch, F. J. Barros, X. Hu and A. D’Ambrogio,eds., 2019 Spring Simulation Conference, SpringSim 2019 Proceedings, IEEE 2019, 1-12

Votes and Talk: Sorrows and Successes in Representational Hierarchy
(with Daniel J. Singer, Aaron Bramson, William J. Berger, Jiin Jung, & Scott Page)
A version appears as “Representation in Models of Epistemic Democracy,” Episteme (2018) 1-21,
https://doi.org/10.1017/epi.2018.51

How Stable Is Democracy? Suggestions from Artificial Social Networks
(with Mengzhen Liu, Krishna C. Bathina, Naijia Liu, and Jake William Gordon)
Journal on Policy and Complex Systems 4 (2018), 87-108

Diversity and Democracy: Agent-Based Modeling in Political Philosophy
(with Bennett Holman, William J. Berger, Daniel J. Singer, & Aaron Bramson)
In Dominik Klein, Johannes Marx & Kai Fischbach, eds., special issue on Agent-Based Modeling in Social Science History, and Philosophy
Historical Social Research 43 (2018), 259-284

Coherence and Correspondence in the Network Dynamics of Belief Suites
(with Andrew Modell, Nicholas Breslin, Jasmine McNenny, Irina Mondescu, Kyle Finnegan, Robert Olsen, Chanyu An, & Alexander Fedder)
Episteme 14 (2017), 233-253

Understanding Polarization: Meanings, Measures, and Model Evaluation
(with Aaron Bramson, Daniel J. Singer, William J. Berger, Graham Sack, Steven Fisher, Carissa Flocken, and Bennett Holman)
Philosophy of Science 84 (2017), 115-159

Disambiguation of Social Polarization Concepts and Measures
(with Aaron Bramson, Daniel J. Singer, Steven Fisher, William Berger, Graham Sack, and Carissa Flocken)
Journal of Mathematical Sociology 40 (2016), 80-111

Modeling Interaction Effects in Polarization: Individual Media Influence and the Impact of Town Meetings
(with Eric Pulick, Patrick Korth, and Jiin Jung)
Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 19 (2) (2016)

Germs, Genes, and Memes: Function and Fitness Dynamics on Information Networks
(with Daniel J. Singer, Christopher Reade, and Steven Fisher)
Philosophy of Science 82 (2015), 219-243

Scientific Networks on Data Landscapes: Question Difficulty, Epistemic Success, and Convergence
(with Daniel J. Singer, Steven Fisher, Aaron Bramson, William J. Berger, Christopher Reade,
Carissa Flocken, and Adam Sales)
Episteme 10 (2014), 441-464

Philosophical Analysis in Modeling Polarization: Notes from a Work in Progress
(with Aaron Bramson, Daniel J. Singer, Steven Fisher, Carissa Flocken and William Berger)
American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers 12 (2012), 7-15
Reprinted in Paul Youngman and Mirsad Hadzikadik, ed., Complexity and the Human Experience: Modeling Complexity in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Pan Stanford, 2013
animations

Polarization and Belief Dynamics in the Black and White Communities: An Agent-Based Network Model from the Data
(with Stephen B. Thomas, Steven Fisher, Christopher Reade, Daniel J. Singer, Mary A. Garza,
Craig S. Fryer & Jamie Chatman)
In Cristoph Adami, David M. Bryson, Charles Offria and Robert T. Pennock, eds., Artificial Life 13
MIT Press (2012)
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/artificial-life-13

Information Dynamics Across Linked Sub-Networks: Genes, Germs, and Memes
(with Daniel J. Singer, Christopher Reade, and Steven Fisher)
Proceedings, AAAI Fall Symposium on Complex Systems: Energy, Information, and Intelligence
AAAI Press (2011)
supplemental material

Simulating Grice: Emergent Pragmatics in Spatialized Game Theory
In Anton Benz, Christian Ebert, Gerhard Jäger, and Robert van Rooij, eds., Language, Games and Evolution: Trends in Current Research on Language and Game Theory
Springer (2011)
figures & animations

How Simulations Fail
(with Robert Rosenberger, Brian Anderson, Adam Rosenfeld and Robb E. Eason)
Synthese (2011)
figures

What You Believe Travels Differently: Information and Infection Dynamics Across Sub-Networks
(with Christopher Reade, Daniel J. Singer, Steven Fisher, and Stephen Majewicz)
Connections 30 (2010), 50-63
appendix

Robustness Across the Structure of Sub-Networks: The Contrast Between Infection and Information Dynamics
(with Christopher Reade, Daniel J. Singer, Steven Fisher, and Stephen Majewicz)
Proceedings, AAAI Fall Symposium on Complex Systems: Resilience, Robustness, and Evolvability
AAAI Press (2010)
figures

Threshold Phenomena in Epistemic Networks
Proceedings, AAAI Fall Symposium on Complex Adaptive Systems and the Threshold Effect
AAAI Press (2009)

A Graphic Measure for Game-Theoretic Robustness
(with Randy Au, Nancy Louie, Robert Rosenberger, William Braynen, Evan Selinger, and Robb E. Eason)
Synthese 163 (2008), 273-297
figures and animations

Modeling Prejudice Reduction: Spatialized Game Theory and the Contact Hypothesis
(with Evan Selinger, William Braynen, Robert Rosenberger, Randy Au, Nancy Louie, and John Connelly)
Public Affairs Quarterly 19 (2005), 95-126
figures and animations

Making Meaning Happen
(with Trina Kokalis, Ali Alai-Tafti, Nicholas Kilb and Paul St. Denis)
Journal for Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 16 (2004), 209-244
animated illustrations

Location, Location, Location: The Importance of Spatialization in Modeling Cooperation and Communication
(with Stephanie Wardach and Vincent Beltrani)
Interactive Studies: Social Behavior and Communication in Biological and Artifical Systems 7 (2006), 43-78
figures

Reducing Prejudice: A Spatialized Game-Theoretic Model for the Contact Hypothesis
(with Evan Selinger, William Braynen, Robert Rosenberger, Randy Au, Nancy Louie, and John Connelly)
Artificial Life IX: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Artifical Life, eds. Jordan Pollack, Mark Bedau, Phil Husbands, Takashi Ikegami, and Richard A. Watson. MIT Press 2004, 244-250

Boom and Bust: Enviornmental Variability Favors the Emergence of Communication
(with Trina Kokalis)
Artificial Life IX: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Artifical Life, eds. Jordan Pollack, MarknbspBedau, Phil Husbands, Takashi Ikegami, and Richard A. Watson. MIT Press 2004, 164-170

Game-Theoretic Robustness in Cooperation and Prejudice Reduction: A Graphic Measure
(with Randy Au, Nancy Louie, Robert Rosenberger, William Braynen, Evan Selinger, and Robb E. Eason)
Artificial Life X: Proceedings fo the Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems. Luis M. Rocha, Larry S. Yaeger, Mark A. Bedauy, Dario Floreano, Robert L. Goldstine, and Allesandro Vespignani, eds. MIT Press, 2006, 445-451
figures and animations

Learning to Communicate: The Emergence of Signaling in Spacialized Arrays of Neural Nets
(with Paul St. Denis and Trina Kokalis)
Adaptive Behavior 10 (2003), 45-70

Evolution of Communication with a Spatialized Genetic Algorithm
(with Trina Kokalis, Ali Tafti, and Nicholas Kilb)
Evolution of Communication 3 (2001), 105-134

Evolution of Communication in Perfect and Imperfect Worlds
(with Trina Kokalis, Ali Tafti, and Nicholas Kilb)
World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution 56 (2000), 179-197

Undecidability in the Spatialized Prisoner's Dilemma: Some Philosophical Implications (hypertext with graphics)
see also "The Undecidability of the Spatialized Prisoner's Dilemma," Theory and Decision 42 (1997), 53-80

Philosophical Logic

Essential Vagueness: Two Models, One Simple Truth
Forthcoming in Ali Abasenezhad and Otavio Bueno, On the Sorites, Springer

Limitations and the World Beyond
(with Nicholas Rescher)
Logos and Episteme 8 (2017): 425-454

Plenum Theory
(with Nicholas Rescher)
Nous 42 (2008), 422-459
Reprinted in Nicholas Rescher, "Being and Value", Ontos/Verlag 2008

The Buried Quantifier: An Account of Vagueness and the Sorites
Analysis 65 (2005), 95-104

What is a Contradiction?
Graham Priest, JC Beall, and B. Armour-Garb, The Law of Non-Contradiction: New Philosophcial Essays, Oxford University Press (2005), pp. 49-72

Fractal Images of Formal Systems
(with Paul St. Denis)
Journal of Philosophical Logic 26 (1997), 181-222
Reviewed in Ian Stewart, "Logic Quasi-Fractals: A Fractal Guide to Tic-Tac-Toe, " Scientific American 283 (2), August 2000

Self-Reference and Chaos in Fuzzy Logic
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems 1 (1993), 237-253

Pattern and Chaos: New Images in the Semantics of Paradox
(with Gary Mar)
Noûs 25 (1991), 659-694

There Is No Set Of All Truths
Analysis 44 (1984), 206-208

A Fuzzy Fairly Happy Face
for the New York vagueness group

Philosophy of Religion

Problems for Omniscience
Cambridge Handbook of Christian Theology, forthcomingin J. P. Moreland, Chad Meister & Khaldoun A. Sweis, eds., Debating Christian Theism. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2013, 169-180

Truth, Omniscience, and Cantorian Arguments: An Exchange (with Alvin Plantinga)
Philosophical Studies 71 (1993), 267-306.
See also "The Being That Knew Too Much," International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 47 (2000), 141-154

The Being that Knew Too Much
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 47 (2000), 141-154.
Reprinted in Michael Martin and Rick Monnier, The Impossibility of God, Prometheus Books 2003, 408-422

Ethics

Free Will in Context
Behavioral Science and the Law 25 (2007), 183-201

INSTITUTES AND CONFERENCES

International Association for Philosophy and Computing
Program Chair
Rensselaer Polytechnic 2006

Epistemology of Modeling and Simulation
Chair
University of Pittsburgh 2011

Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities
Program Director
Complex Systems Institute
University of North Carolina Charlotte 2011

Epistemology Think Tank: New Measures for Models
Chair
University of Pittsburgh 2012
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email: patrick.grim@stonybrook.edu
cv: Patrick Grim