Tony Chemero’s Online Papers

Here are some papers. If they have been published, the version that appears here is a final pre-publication draft. Please do not cite or quote from these drafts. If they are online publications, there is a link. Else they are in .pdf format. Comments are always appreciated.

1. “Hypersets, Complexity, and the Ecological Approach to Perception-Action”, (with Michael Turvey) Biological Theory, forthcoming (2007).
2. “After the Philosophy of Mind” (with Michael Silberstein), Philosophy of Science, forthcoming (2007).
3. “Situated, embodied realism”, in Jose Burgos and Emilio Ribes (eds.), Knowledge, Cognition and Behavior, forthcoming (2007).
4. “Information and Direct Perception: A new approach”, in Priscila Farias and João Queiroz (eds.), Advanced Issues in Cognitive Science and Semiotics, forthcoming, (2006).
5. “Asking What’s Inside the Head: Neurophilosophy meets the extended mind”, Minds and Machines, forthcoming (2006).
6. “Complexity and “Closure to Efficient Cause””, (with Michael Turvey), Proceedings of the 10^th International Conference on Artificial Life: Workshops, 13-19, 2006.
7. “Ascribing Agency and the Embodied Turing Test”, (with Neal Swisher* and Dobromir Dotov*), Proceedings of the 10^th International Conference on Artificial Life: Workshops, 40-45, 2006.
8. “Object Exploration and a Problem with Reductionism” (with Charles Heyser), Synthese, 147, 3, 403-423, 2005.
9. “Information for Perception and Information Processing”, Minds and Machines, 13, 4, 577-588, 2003.
10. “An Outline of a Theory of Affordances”, Ecological Psychology, 15, 2, 181-195, 2003.
11. “Events as Changes in the Layout of Affordances”, (with Colin Klein* and William Cordeiro*) Ecological Psychology, 15, 1, 19-28, 2003.
12. Review of Walter J. Freeman and Rafael Nunez, Reclaiming Cognition, Philosophical Psychology, 16, 166-169, 2003.
13. “Radical Empiricism through the Ages”, Contemporary Psychology, 48, 18-20, 2003.
14. “Editor’s Introduction: Reconsidering Ryle”, Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy: Special Issue Commemorating the 50^th Anniversary of The Concept of Mind, 7, 1-5, 2002.
15. “Dynamical Explanation and Mental Representation”, Trends in Cognitive Science, 5, 4, 140-141, 2001.
16. “What We Perceive When We Perceive Affordances”, Ecological Psychology, 13, 2, 111-116, 2001.
17. “The Role of Mental Representations in Cognitive Studies of Film”, (with Andrei Cimpian*) Journal of Moving Image Studies, 1, 1, 2001.
18. “Making Space for Embodiment: A Review of Fred Keizjer’s Representation and Behavior”, Trends in Cognitive Science, 5, 7, 317-318, 2001.
19. “Anti-representationalism and the Dynamical Stance”, Philosophy of Science, 67, 4, 625-647, 2000.
20. “What Events Are”, Ecological Psychology, 12, 1, 37-42, 2000.
21. “Representation and ‘Reliable Presence’”, Conceptus Studien 14: The New Computationalism, 9-25, 2000.
22. “Punctuation Equilibrium and Optimization: An A-life Model” (with Ravi Jonnal), in D. Blank (ed.) Proceedings of the 2000 Midwest AI and Cognitive Society Conference, Cambridge: AAAI Press, 2000.
23. “Dynamical, Ecological Sub-Persons” (with William Cordeiro*), in M. Nani and M. Marraffa (eds.), A Field Guide to the Philosophy of Mind, 2000.
24. “A Stroll through the Worlds of Animats and Persons: A Review of Andy Clark’s Being There”, Psyche, 4, 14, 1998.