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 Philosopher in Residence 
Visiting Scholar 
Center for Complex Systems 
University of Michigan
 
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Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus Group for Logic & Formal Semantics
 Department of Philosophy Stony Brook
 
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  BOOKS 
 
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| 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
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  EDITORSHIP 
  
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Editor, American Philosophical Quarterly, 2019 - 
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Editor, Computational Philosophy, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (With Daniel J. Singer) 
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Editor, Computational Modeling in Philosophy, Topical Issue, Open Philosophy 2019 
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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
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Epistemology of Modeling and Simulation:  Variations on a Theme, Philosophy and Technology 26(1), 2013
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 MULTIMEDIA 
  
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 Questions of Value
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 Philosophy of Mind: Brains, Consciousness, and Thinking Machines 
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 The Philosopher's Toolkit | 
Mind-Body Philosophy
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 ARTICLES 
  
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appearing in these and other journals
 
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| 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 Epistemic Role of Diversity in Juries: an Agent-Based Model
 (with Daniel Singer, Aaron Bramson, Bennett Holman, Jiin Jung and William J. Berger
 Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 27(1) (2024) https://www.jasss.org/27/1/12.html
  
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)
 
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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)
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How Simulations Fail 
(with Robert Rosenberger, Brian Anderson, Adam Rosenfeld and Robb E. Eason) Synthese (2011)
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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
 
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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)
 
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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
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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
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