] welcome [
I am a philosopher working in philosophy of science, mathematics, and mind. I am especially interested in the relationship between science, scientific results and philosophical theorizing. I've been at Marquette since 1994 and before that studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison . . . and way back at Montana State University.
] some current work [
I am working on how nonlinear dyanmics (chaos, complexity, and catastrophe theories, and related principles) can shed insight into thinking about consciousness and the mind. In particular, I have an in terest in symbolic dyanimics. Stephen Guastello and I have developed (2010) a piece of sofware, Orbital Decomposition v1.2. ORBDE, which performs an analysis based on symbolic dynamics that identifies recurring patterns of events in nominally-coded data; it can be found at the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Science (sixth choice from the bottom) or by clicking here.
In other work, I've been writing about the Intgrated Information account of consciousness (Giulio Tononi). My paper forthcoming in the Journal of Consciosness Studies may be found here.
Many of my other publications can be found on my research page.