Thomas Welbourne Clark

Thomas W . Clark Killing the Observer

Phenomenal consciousness is often thought to involve a first-person perspective or point of view which makes available to the subject categorically private, first-person facts about experience, facts that are irreducible to third-person physical, functional, or representational facts. This paper seeks to show that on a representational account of consciousness, we don’t have an observational pe...

Statement : Evan Welbourne February , 2010

After two decades of research, the commercial and cultural mainstream has its first taste of context-aware computing in the hundreds of mobile and real-time web applications that use primitive location context (e.g., “Fiona is at the park”, “There’s a café 2 blocks away”). Recent work has also led to systems that can infer complex, higher-level context (e.g., “Grandma is making coffee” [2], “Pa...

The Business Failures Project: A Problem in Methodology (with William Clark and Dorothy S. Thomas)

Clark Glymour

Twenty years ago, Nancy Cartwright wrote a perceptive essay in which she clearly distinguished causal relations from associations, introduced philosophers to Simpson’s paradox, articulated the difficulties for reductive probabilistic analyses of causation that flow from these observations, and connected causal relations with strategies of action (Cartwright 1979). Five years later, without appr...

Katerina Clark