Academic Publications |
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Books
Art as Communication: Aesthetics, Evolution, and Signaling (in press @ Lexington Books (imprint of Rowman & Littlefield)).
Available October 15th, 2024. Here is a link to the publisher's webpage for the book.
Edited works
Invited editor of a Winter 2023/2024 Special Issue on Environmental Philosophy for Diálogos: Journal of the Department of Philosophy of the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras (published February, 2024)
Articles
Pinillos, A. & Simpson, S. (2014). "Experimental Evidence in Support of Anti-intellectualism about Knowledge". In J. R. Beebe (Ed.), Advances in Experimental Epistemology (pp. 9-44). Bloomsbury Academic.
"James and Carnap on Philosophical Systems and the Role of Temperaments," (2023), Metaphilosophy, 54(1): 134-144.
https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.12604
"Introduction to "Diálogos : A Special Edition on Environmental Philosophy," (2024), Diálogos, 55(114): 9-16.
"Limits of Wilderness," (2024), Diálogos, 55(114): 81-115.
William James’s ‘The Will to Believe’: A Decision-Theoretic Analysis (revise and resubmit)
The Sender-Receiver Model, Syntax, and Semantics (under review)
Problems for the Pleasure Theory of Evil (under review)
The Mosquito Problem (under review)
Conferences, Talks, and Other Events |
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Logic and Inference in the Sender-receiver Model
Invited Speaker, Arché Research Centre, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK. June 26th, 2024.
"Revenge, Retribution, and the Law"
Invited speaker, University of Pittsburgh, Undergraduate Philosophy Club, Dec 12th, 2023
"The Mosquito Problem"
International Society for Environmental Ethics, American Philosophical Association, Central Division - Denver, CO, February 2023
"Logic and Inference in the Sender-receiver Model"
NY Philosophical Logic Workshop - CUNY Graduate Center, March 20th, 2023
"Re-generation of Wilderness"
Invited talk, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, March 2022.
"Defining Life"
The Society for Social and Conceptual Issues in Astrobiology, University of Mississippi, March 6th-9th, 2022
“Concepts of Wilderness”
Canadian Society for Environmental Philosophy/ Société Canadienne de Philosophie Environementale, University of Victoria, Nov 12-14th, 2021
Mississippi State University Works in Progress Seminar, Dec 3rd, 2021
Mississippi Academy of Sciences annual meeting, March 2022
"The Nature of Moral Evil"
Mississippi State University, Undergraduate Philosophy Club, Nov 18th, 2021
“Communication Between Groups and Collective Organisms”
International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, Université du Québec à Montréal, 2015
Invited talk, information in Biology Workshop, CUNY Graduate Center.
"James and Carnap on Philosophical Systems and the Role of Temperaments"
Southwestern Philosophy Graduate Conference, Arizona State University, 2013
Works in Progress |
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Books:
A second book-length project in progress on philosophical theories of moral evil
Articles:
Re-generating Wilderness (in progress - draft available)
Group and Joint Communication (under revision - draft available)
Logic and Inference in the Sender-Receiver Model (co-authored - in progress - presentation slides available)
An article on Aldo Leopold and his impact on Environmental Philosophy (for Aeon - in progress)
Art and Group-level Selection (in progress)
Communication in Plants (under-revision)
AI Art and Its Impact on Artists (in progress - short version published in NEWSWEEK)
Interviews/Op Eds/Popular Media |
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"APA Member Interview," American Philosophical Association Blog. July 31, 2020
"Artificial Intelligence Threatens Disaster for Artists," Newsweek. June 6, 2024
PhD Thesis |
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Title: Essays on Communication (CUNY 2021)
Advisor: Noël Carroll
Committee: John Greenwood, Stephen Neale, Michael Devitt
Abstract: One of the central issues of contemporary philosophy and biology is the nature of communication. Early accounts of communication tended to focus on just one side of the communicative divide – the speaker side or the receiver side – and took as their starting point the case of human language. Animal communication, historically, was largely treated as a special case. Now things are different. Now it appears we might have a model that makes sense of sign use in both the human and animal realms and brings together both sides of the signaling divide. It’s still to be seen, however, how much the model actually captures, especially the farther down we go on the animal side, and it’s still to be seen how well the model captures the human cases, especially those around the edges. The purpose of this thesis is to explore the foundations of the sender-receiver model and to show that it can cover more than was previously imagined. Topics discussed include the nature of communication and signaling, animal communication, the nature of meaning or content, the communicative nature of objects such as works of art, blueprints, and maps, and the possibility of communication between groups and collective agents.
Advisor: Noël Carroll
Committee: John Greenwood, Stephen Neale, Michael Devitt
Abstract: One of the central issues of contemporary philosophy and biology is the nature of communication. Early accounts of communication tended to focus on just one side of the communicative divide – the speaker side or the receiver side – and took as their starting point the case of human language. Animal communication, historically, was largely treated as a special case. Now things are different. Now it appears we might have a model that makes sense of sign use in both the human and animal realms and brings together both sides of the signaling divide. It’s still to be seen, however, how much the model actually captures, especially the farther down we go on the animal side, and it’s still to be seen how well the model captures the human cases, especially those around the edges. The purpose of this thesis is to explore the foundations of the sender-receiver model and to show that it can cover more than was previously imagined. Topics discussed include the nature of communication and signaling, animal communication, the nature of meaning or content, the communicative nature of objects such as works of art, blueprints, and maps, and the possibility of communication between groups and collective agents.
Photo taken at the Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge, Mississippi, USA (2021)