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My research focuses on the relationships among abstraction, emergence (as in the study of complex systems), and the externalization of thought as software-in particular, on the application of computer science perspectives, especially abstraction, to long-standing philosophical issues.
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Abbott, R. (2007). Abstraction, Emergence, and Thought. In: Miguel, I., Ruml, W. (eds) Abstraction, Reformulation, and Approximation. SARA 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4612. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73580-9_30
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