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Dr Douglas Ian Campbell

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Department: Philosophy

Email: douglas.campbell@canterbury.ac.nz

Office: Karl Popper 618

Language: English

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Research / Creative works
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Fields of Research

  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Philosophical Logic
  • Epistemology
  • Metaphysics
  • The Philosophy of De-extinction

Researcher Summary

I have numerous research projects in various stages of completion. They involve the problem of induction, the nature of consciousness, the nature of propositions and possible worlds, the three great modal dichotomies (necessity, apriority, and analyticity), a kind of non-classical logic that I call "reticent logic", the problem of naturalising intentionality, and the physicalism/antiphysicalism dispute. I also have research interests in the philosophy of de-extinction and technological unemployment.

My personal research website with preprints of my articles is here:

http://douglascampbellphilosophy.blogspot.co.nz

Subject Area: Disciplines

  • Philosophy: Philosophy

Resources

  • Doug's personal research page
  • Doug's university page
  • Doug's PhilPapers page
  • LinkedIn
  • Doug's Academia.edu page
  • Doug's ResearchGate page

Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

  • Campbell D. (2022) A very simple design for a very intelligent machine (but with a catch). In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction ACM. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3527188.3561942. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Campbell DI. (2022) Why Katz is Wrong: A Lab-Created Creature Can Still Have an Ancient Evolutionary History. Ethics, Policy and Environment 25(2): 109-112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21550085.2022.2071555. (Journal Articles)
  • Jha A., Campbell D., Montelle C. and Wilson PL. (2022) Not so distinctively mathematical explanations: topology and dynamical systems. Synthese 200(3) http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03697-9. (Journal Articles)
  • Campbell DI. and Yang Y. (2021) Does the solar system compute the laws of motion? Synthese 198(4): 3203-3220. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02275-w. (Journal Articles)
  • Campbell D. (2020) Greenbeard Theory, Meet Simulation Theory. University of Canterbury: New Zealand Association of Philosophy (NZAP) Annual Conference, 7-10 Dec 2020. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Campbell D. (2020) Robots in Nozickland. University of Canterbury: UCAI conference, 7-10 Dec 2020. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Campbell DI. (2019) The Fragmentation of Being. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 97(3): 634-635. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2018.1536999. (Journal Articles)
  • Campbell D. (2018) Cosmic Xerox Machines, Tattoo Removal, and Defining 'Physicalism'. Victoria University, Wellington: 2018 AAP conference, 8-12 Jul 2018. (Conference Contributions - Other)
  • Campbell DI. (2018) Doxastic desire and Attitudinal Monism. Synthese 195(3): 1139-1161. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-016-1255-1. (Journal Articles)
  • Campbell D., Copeland BJ. and Deng Z. (2017) The Inconceivable Popularity of Conceivability Arguments. The Philosophical Quarterly 67(267): 223-240. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqw066. (Journal Articles)
  • Campbell DI. (2017) Against Lewis on ‘Desire as Belief’. Polish Journal of Philosophy 11(1): 17-28. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/pjphil20171112. (Journal Articles)
  • Campbell DI. (2017) On the Authenticity of De-extinct Organisms, and the Genesis Argument. Animal Studies Journal 6(1) 5: 61-79. (Journal Articles)
  • Campbell DI. (2017) The Eightfold Way: Why Analyticity, Apriority and Necessity are Independent. Philosophers' Imprint 17 25: 1-17. (Journal Articles)
  • Campbell D. (2016) A case for resurrecting lost species. Review essay of Beth Shapiro’s, “How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-extinction”. Biology & Philosophy 31(5): 747-759. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10539-016-9534-2. (Journal Articles)
  • Campbell DI. (2016) Why we shouldn't reason classically, and the implications for artificial intelligence. In Synthese Library: Computing and Philosophy: Selected Papers from IACAP 2014 375: 151-165. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23291-1. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Campbell DI. (2014) Daniel D. Hutto and Erik Myin, Radicalizing Enactivism: Basic Minds Without Content. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2013; 206pp. Analysis Reviews 74(1): 174-176. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/analys/ant102. [Book Review]. (Other)
  • Campbell DI. (2013) The Semimeasure Property of Algorithmic Probability: Feature or Bug? In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 9129: MPC 2015 7070: 79-90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-44958-1_6. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Campbell D. (2010) A theory of consciousness. Tucson, AZ, USA. University of Arizona. (Theses / Dissertations)
  • Campbell DI. (2002) Induction machines and the mind. Christchurch, New Zealand. University of Canterbury. (Theses / Dissertations)

Key Methodologies

  • Logic and analysis
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