Rethinking Dionysus and Apollo: Redrawing Today’s Philosophical Chessboard

The Ear of Dionysus: Rethinking Foreign Intelligence Surveillance

Redrawing Foucault’s Social Ontology*

I propose that Foucault‟s works, since he wrote Discipline and Punish, rely on an implicit meta-theory that is compatible with the fundamentals of Critical Realism. To this end I examine the status of truth, methodology and social ontology used by Foucault. If this thesis is correct, then a critical realist reading of Michel Foucault would avoid some of the pitfalls that have been attributed to...

Geometrical optics and chessboard pebbling

Recently Chung. Graham, Morrison and Odlyzko [l] studied some combinatorial and asymptotic enumeration aspects of chessboard pebbling. In this problem, we start with a single pebble, placed at the origin (0,O) of an infinite chessboard. At each step we remove a pebble from (i,j) and repIace it with two pebbles at positions (a + 1,j) and (i.j + I). provided the latter are unoccupied. After m ste...

Redrawing the Boundary between Organism and Environment

In this position paper, I argue that a fruitful, and as yet largely unexplored, avenue for artificial life research lies in modelling organisms (specifically, phenotypes) and environment as a single dynamical system. From this perspective, the origin and evolution of life is the progressive control of the dynamical system at a local level by constraints which are represented on an organism’s ge...

Chessboard Complexes and Matching Complexes