Mark Bedau's Publications

M. A. Bedau -- Selected Papers

A. Rechtsteiner and M. A. Bedau, "A Generic Neutral Model for Measuring Evolutionary Activity of Genotypes." Submitted to GECCO-99.
S. Joshi, J. Parker, and M. A. Bedau, "Financial Markets are Inevitably at Sub-Optimal Equilibria." Submitted to Computational Economics.
S. Joshi, J. Parker, and M. A. Bedau, "A Prisoner's Dilemma Causes Technical Trading." Submitted to Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.
S. Joshi, J. Parker, and M. A. Bedau, "Technical Trading Creates a Prisoner's Dilemma: Results from an Agent-Based Model." To appear in Proceedings of Computational Finance, CF99, a conference held at New York University, January 1999. Also published as Working Paper No. 98-12-115E, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM.
S. Joshi and M. A. Bedau, "An Explanation of Generic Behavior in an Evolving Financial Market". In R. Standish, B. Henry, S. Watt, R. Marks, R. Stocker, D. Green, S. Keen, T. Bossomaier, eds., Complex Systems '98--Complexity Between the Ecos: From Ecology to Economics, Complexity Online Network; Sydney, 1998, pp. 327-335. Also published as Working Paper No. 98-12-114E, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM. To be reprinted in Complexity International.
M. A. Bedau, "Supple Laws in Biology and Psychology". In Biology Meets Psychology: Conjectures, Connections, Constraints, V. Hardcastle, ed., MIT Press. Forthcoming.
M. A. Bedau and C. Titus Brown, "Visualizing Evolutionary Activity of Genotypes." To appear in Artificial Life. Also published as Working Paper No.98-03-023, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM.
R. Smith and M. A. Bedau, "Emergence of Complex Ecologies in Echo." In Y. Bar-Yam, ed., Unifying Themes in Complex Systems (Perseus Books, Reading MA).
M. A. Bedau, "Four Puzzles about Life." Artificial Life 4 (1998): 125-140.
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R. Smith and M. A. Bedau, "Emergence of Complex Ecologies in Echo". To appear in Proceedings of the International Conference on Complex Systems, Nashua NH 21-26 Sept. 1997. Published on-line in the InterJournal by the New England Complex Systems Institute.
M. A. Bedau, E. Snyder, N. H. Packard, "A Classification of Long-Term Evolutionary Dynamics". In Artificial Life VI; C. Adami, R. Belew, H. Kitano, and C. Taylor, eds., MIT Press (1998), pp. 228-237. Also published as Working Paper No.98-03-025, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM.
J. Fletcher, M. A. Bedau, M. Zwick, "Effect of Environmental Texture on Evolutionary Adaptation". In Proceedings of Artificial Life VI, Los Angeles, June 26-29, 1998; C. Adami, R. Belew, H. Kitano, and C. Taylor, eds., MIT Press (1998), pp. 189-198.
M. A. Bedau, "Philosophical Content and Method of Artificial Life". In T. W. Bynam and J. H. Moor, eds., The Digital Phoenix: How Computers are Changing Philosophy, Basil Blackwell, pp. 135-152, 1998.
M. A. Bedau, E. Snyder, C. T. Brown, and N. H. Packard, "A Comparison of Evolutionary Activity in Artificial Evolving Systems and the Biosphere". In P. Husbands and I. Harvey, 1997, Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL97, pp. 125-134. MIT Press/Bradford Books. Also published as Working Paper No.98-03-024, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM.
M. A. Bedau, "Emergent Models of Supple Dynamics in Life and Mind". Brain and Cognition 34 (1997): 5-27.
M. A. Bedau, "Weak Emergence". In James Tomberlin, ed., Philosophical Perspectives: Mind, Causation, and World, vol. 11 (Blackwell Publishers), 1997, pp. 375-399.
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M. A. Bedau, "The Extent to which Organisms Construct their Environments". Adaptive Behavior 4 (1996): 476-482.
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J. Fletcher, M. Zwick, M. A. Bedau, "Dependence of Adaptability on Environmental Structure in a Simple Evolutionary Model". Adaptive Behavior 4 (1996): 283-315.
M. A. Bedau, "The Nature of Life". In Margaret Boden, ed., The Philosophy of Artificial Life (Oxford University Press), pp. 332-357, 1996.
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M. A. Bedau, "Three Illustrations of Artificial Life's Working Hypothesis". In Wolfgang Banzhaf and Frank Eeckman, eds., Evolution and Biocomputation&emdash;Computational Models of Evolution, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 899, New York and Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1995, pp. 53-68.
M. A. Bedau, "The Evolution of Sensorimotor Functionality". In P. Gaussier and J.-D. Nicoud, eds., From Perception to Action, Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 134-145, 1994.
M. A. Bedau, R. Seymour, "Adaptation of Mutation Rates in a Simple Model of Evolution". In Russel J. Stonier and Xing Huo Yu, eds., Complex Systems&emdash;Mechanism of Adaptation, Amsterdam: IOS Press, pp. 37-44, 1994. Reprinted in Complexity International, Vol. 2, 1995., and available at this site. http://www.csu.edu.au/ci/vol2/mab2nd/mab2nd.html
M. A. Bedau, A. Bahm, "Bifurcation Structure in Diversity Dynamics". In R. Brooks and P. Maes, eds., Proceedings of Artificial Life IV: An Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Cambridge, MA: Bradford Books/MIT Press, pp. 258-268, 1994.
M. A. Bedau, "Naturalism and Teleology". In S. Wagner and R. Warner, eds., Naturalism: A Critical Appraisal, Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, pp. 23-51. 1993.
M. A. Bedau, "Where's the Good in Teleology?" Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 52 (1992): 781-806. Reprinted in Colin Allen, Marc Bekoff, George Lauder, eds., Nature's Purposes: analyses of function and design in biology, MIT Press, 1997, pp. 261-291.
M. A. Bedau, "Goal Directed Systems and the Good". The Monist 75 (1992): 34-49.
M. A. Bedau, "Philosophical Aspects of Artificial Life". In F. Varela and P. Bourgine, eds., Towards A Practice of Autonomous Systems, Cambridge, MA: Bradford Books/MIT Press, pp. 494-503. 1992.
M. A. Bedau, F. Ronneburg, M. Zwick, "Dynamics of Diversity in an Evolving Population". In R. Männer and B. Manderick, eds., Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, 2, New York: Elsevier, pp. 95-104. 1992.
M. A. Bedau, "Can Biological Teleology be Naturalized?" The Journal of Philosophy 88 (1991): 647-655.
M. A. Bedau, N. H. Packard, "Measurement of Evolutionary Activity, Teleology, and Life". In C. Langton, C. Taylor , D. Farmer, and S. Rasmussen, eds., Artificial Life II, Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Vol. X, Redwood City, CA: Addison-Wesley, pp. 431-461. 1991. Also published as Technical Report No. CCSR-90-20 (1990), Center for Complex Systems Research&emdash;Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
M. A. Bedau, "Against Mentalism in Teleology". American Philosophical Quarterly 27 (1990): 61-70.
G. Myro, M. A. Bedau, T. Monroe, Rudiments of Logic. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. 1987. Pp. vi + 322.
M. A. Bedau, "Cartesian Interaction". Midwest Studies in Philosophy 10 (1986): 483-502. Reprinted in Vere Chappell, ed., Essays on Early Modern Philosophers: From Descartes and Hobbes to Newton and Leibniz, Vol. 1, René Descartes, New York: Garland, pp. 21-40. 1992.