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Synthese, Springer - Special Issue
Volume 168, 3, June 2009
Special issue on the philosophy of technology. Co-edited with Jan-Kyrre Berg Olsen, Frederik Voetmann Christiansen, Stig Andur Pedersen, Søren Riis, and Ulrik Jørgensen.
'Anderkendelsens økonomi og oplysningens værdi i det offentlige rum'
The economy of social status and the value of enlightenment in public spaces, (Together with Vincent F. Hendricks), published in Kritik, December 2009, 190, 41-51.
'Negligent Rape and Reasonable beliefs'
In ShippingNews, March 2008, edited by Andur, Freese & Rønn, The Danish Research Training Programme in Philosophy, The History of Ideas and The History of Science, 4-14.
In this short somewhat popular paper I argue against the recieved view that the notion of negligent rape can not be based on any objective momentum in a situation. My basic argument is that in so far as voluntary consent is taken as the fundamental idea defining acceptable behaviour, certain beliefs can be deemed strictly unreasonable to hold in certain situations and if acted on conferring liability on the agent. Read it here...
Game Theory: 5 Questions
(Together with Vincent F. Hendricks)
Aumtomatic Press 2007
Game Theory: 5 Questions is a collection of short interviews based on 5 questions presented to some of the most influential and prominent scholars in game theory. We hear their views on game theory, its aim, scope, use, the future direction of game theory and how their work fits in these respects
'Evolutionary Games and Social Conventions'
In Game Theory and Linguistic Meaning, edited by Athi-Veikko Pietarinen, vol 18, CriSPI-Series, published by Elsevier in 2007. The contributed chapter takes an overview of the different kinds of games of convention as well as motivates the evolutionary turn within the theory of convention.
Kejserens Nye Klæder
'The Emperor's New Clothes', (together with Vincent F. Hendricks), August 22, 2007, Dagbladet information
In a feature article published in the Danish newspaper Information during the Copenhagen Fashion Week summer 2007, Vincent and I gave an extended analysis of how the social economy and perceptional structures in public spaces drives modern hyper-consumerism. Read it here... or here...
'Towards a Theory of Convention'
Phinews: The newsletter for Philosophical logic and its applications, Vol. 9, April 2006, p.30-62, published by Springer
Some thirty years ago Lewis published his Convention: A philosophical Study(Lewis 1969). Besides exciting the logical community by providing the seminal analysis work on common knowledge, it also laid the foundations for the formal approach to the study of social conventions by means of game theory. Like for the study of common knowledge much has happened in this latter field since then. The theory of convention has been developed and extended so as to include multiple types as well as a basis for the study of social norms. However, classical game theory is currently undergoing severe crisis as a tool for understanding and explaining social phenomena; a crisis emerging from the problem of equilibrium selection around which any theory of convention must revolve. The so-called evolutionary turn in game theory marks a transition from the classical assumptions of rationality and common knowledge of such to evolutionary game theoretical frameworks inspired by the models of (Maynard Smith & Price 1973), (Taylor & Jonker 1978) and (Maynard Smith 1982). By providing an account of equilibrium selection these are thought to work as well-defined metaphors of learning processes upon which a revised theory of convention may be erected. In this article I outline one way this might be done, as well as point to some problems and perspectives that the evolutionary turn leaves in its tracks when brought to serve in a theory of convention.
'Interview with Patrick Blackburn'
(Together with Vincent F. Hendricks)
Phinews: The newsletter for Philosophical logic and its applications, Vol. 8, October 2005, p.4-15, published by Springer
In 2005 Patrick Blackburn, who is Directeur de Recherche for INRIA Lorraine (France's national organization for research in computer science), published together with Johan Bos (Università di Roma "La Sapienza") the book Representation and Inference for Natural Language: A First Course in Computational Semantics (2005). In this view he discusses, with starting point in the books particular focus on formalizations of inference in natural language semantics and the use of these formalizations, the history of logic programming, its role and future.
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