- Predictions
from Philosophy?

- How
analytical philosophers could help forecast our technological future.
Argues that academic philosophers can do something useful if they become
scientific generalists, polymaths, with a thorough grounding in several
sciences. Also contains specific remarks about the Fermi
paradox, superintelligence, sociological
attractors and other things. [Colloquia Manilana
(PDCIS), 2000, Vol. 7]
- What
to say to the Skeptic

- A discussion,
in dialog form, of the position of the radical skeptic, who doubts that
any inductive knowledge is possible. Very early work.
- Human
Reproductive Cloning from the Perspective of the Future

- Boy have I been asked the cloning
question too many times! But here is a statement of 27 Dec 2002.
- Heart
of the Matter, BBC1 Television

- Script: "Against Aging".
(March 2000).
- The
Epistemological Mystique of Self-Locating Belief

- Some puzzling
problems related to self-location
- The Future of Identity

- On the future of "human identity" in relation to information and communication technologies, automation and robotics, and biotechnology and medicine.
- [w/ Anders Sandberg] [Report, Commissioned by the UK's Government Office for Science, 2011]
- Recent Developments in the Ethics, Science, and Politics of Life-Extension

- A review/commentary on The Fountain of Youth (Oxford University Press, 2004).
- [Ageing Horizons, No. 3 (2005): 28–33] [html] [pdf]
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- Cortical
Integration

- Possible Solutions
to the Binding and Linking Problems in Perception, Reasoning and Long
Term Memory. (My MSc-thesis from 1996 in computational neuroscience
on the problem of finding neurologically plausible dynamical binding
mechanisms in the brain for producing and storing structured representations.)
[Consciousness and Cognition, 2000, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 39S-40S]
- Understanding
Quine's Theses of Indeterminacy

- My old MA-thesis
in philosophy. Boring. [Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations, 2005, Vol. 9, March]
- Observational
Selection Effects and Probability

- Doctoral dissertation, which
presented the first mathematically explicit "observation selection
theory". It has now been transfigured into a
book, which I'd recommend instead.
- What
is transhumanism?

- An obsolete introduction
but with a more recent postscript. [Earlier version in Sawaal,
August 2000; reprinted in Doctor Tandy's First Guide to Life Extension
and Transhumanity, 2001, Ria University Press, Palo Alto]
- Some older
online interviews

- Nanotechnology
now (2001) | Resonance
Publications (2000)
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