Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

Journal Articles

• Copeland BJ. and Proudfoot D. (2023) Correction to: On Alan Turing's anticipation of connectionism (Synthese, (1996), 108, 3, (361-377), 10.1007/BF00413694). Synthese 201(2) http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-04023-z.

• Proudfoot D. (2022) An Analysis of Turing’s Criterion for ‘Thinking’. Philosophies 7(124): 1-15. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/philosophies7060124.

• Proudfoot D. (2020) Rethinking Turing’s Test and the Philosophical Implications. Minds and Machines: Journal for Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy and Cognitive Science http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11023-020-09534-7.

• Copeland J. and Proudfoot D. (2019) Turing's Mystery Machine. American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers 18(2): 1-6.

• Proudfoot D. (2018) Sylvan's Bottle and other Problems. The Australasian Journal of Logic 15(2): 95-123. http://dx.doi.org/10.26686/ajl.v15i2.4858.

• Copeland BJ., Dresner E., Proudfoot D. and Shagrir O. (2016) Time to reinspect the foundations? Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery 59(11): 34-36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2908733.

• Proudfoot D. (2016) Heavenly computation: digital metaphysics and the new theology. Metaphilosophy 47(1): 147-153. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/meta.12171.

• Proudfoot D. (2015) Mocking AI Panic. IEEE Spectrum 52(7): 46-47.

• Proudfoot D. (2015) What Turing Himself Said About the Imitation Game. IEEE Spectrum 52(7): 42-47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.2015.7131694.

• Zlotowski J., Proudfoot D., Yogeeswaran K. and Bartneck C. (2015) Anthropomorphism: Opportunities and Challenges in Human-Robot Interaction. International Journal of Social Robotics 7(3): 347-360. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12369-014-0267-6.

• Proudfoot D. (2014) Turing's Three Senses of 'Emotional'. International Journal of Synthetic Emotions 5(2): 7-20. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijse.2014070102.

• Proudfoot D. (2013) Rethinking Turing's Test. The Journal of Philosophy 110(7): 391-411. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jphil2013110722.

• Proudfoot D. and Copeland J. (2012) AI's Promise: Our post-human future. The Philosophers' Magazine 57(2): 73-78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/tpm57.18.

• Copeland BJ. and Proudfoot D. (2011) Alan Turing, Father of the Modern Computer. The Rutherford Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology 4.

• Proudfoot D. (2011) Anthropomorphism and AI: Turing's much misunderstood imitation game. Artificial Intelligence 175(5-6): 950-957. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2011.01.006.

• Proudfoot D. (2011) Design and implementation of a new e-learning tool to develop self-motivated learning. Journal of Adult Learning Aotearoa New Zealand 39(1): 98-103.

• Copeland BJ. and Proudfoot D. (2010) Deviant Encodings and Turing's analysis of computability. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 41(3): 247-252. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2010.07.010.

• Proudfoot D. (2009) Meaning and mind: Wittgenstein's relevance for the 'Does Language Shape Thought?' debate. New Ideas in Psychology 27(2): 163-183. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2008.04.012.

• Proudfoot D. (2006) The Turing test: The elusive standard of artificial intelligence. PHILOSOPHICAL PSYCHOLOGY 19(2): 261-265. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09515080600554886.

• Proudfoot D. (2005) A New Interpretation of the Turing Test. The Rutherford Journal: The New Zealand Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology 1(Dec).

• Proudfoot D. (2005) Possible Worlds Semantics and Fiction. Journal of Philosophical Logic 35(1): 9-40.

• Copeland BJ. and Proudfoot D. (2004) Alan Turing: Codebreaker and Computer Pioneer. History Today 54(7): 7.

• Proudfoot D. (2004) The Implications of an Externalist Theory of Rule-Following Behaviour for Robot Cognition. Minds and Machines 14(3): 283-308.

• Copeland J. and Proudfoot D. (2003) The Conjunction Fallacy. Logique et Analyse: Festschrift for Max Cresswell on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday 46(181): 7-12.

• Proudfoot D. and Copeland BJ. (2002) Wittgenstein's Deflationary Account of Reference. Language and Communication 22(3): 331-351.

• Copeland J., Dyke H. and Proudfoot D. (2001) Temporal Parts and their Individuation. Analysis 61(272): 289-293.

• Copeland BJ. and Proudfoot D. (2000) What Turing Did After He Invented the Universal Turing Machine. Journal of Logic, Language and Information 9(4): 491-509.

• Copeland BJ. and Proudfoot D. (1999) Alan Turing's Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science. Scientific American 280(4): 99-103.

• Copeland BJ. and Proudfoot D. (1999) The Legacy of Alan Turing. Mind 108: 187-195.

• Proudfoot D. (1999) How Human Can They Get? Science 248: 745.

• Copeland BJ. and Proudfoot D. (1998) Enigma Variations. Times Literary Supplement July 3(July 3): 6.

• Proudfoot D. (1997) On Wittgenstein on Cognitive Science. Philosophy 72: 189-217.

• Copeland BJ. and Proudfoot D. (1996) On Alan Turing's anticipation of connectionism. Synthese 108(3): 361-377. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00413694.

• Proudfoot D. (1996) The logic of the sociobiological model, Geary-style. BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES 19(2): 261-261.

• Proudfoot D. and Copeland BJ. (1994) Turing, Wittgenstein and the science of the mind. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 72(4): 497-519. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00048409412346301.

Edited Volumes

• Proudfoot D; Fan Z (Ed.) (2022) Turing the Philosopher: Established Debates and New Developments. Philosophies 7Basel, Switzerland: MDPI.

Chapters

• Proudfoot D. (2019) Personal identity and life after death. In Oppy G; Koterski J (Ed.), Theism and Atheism: Opposing Arguments In Philosophy: 436-440.Macmillan Reference USA.

• Proudfoot D. and Copeland J. (2019) Turing and the first electronic brains: What the papers said. In Sprevak M; Colombo M (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of the Computational Mind: 23-37. London: Routledge. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315643670.

• Copeland BJ. and Proudfoot D. (2017) Connectionism: computing with neurons. The Turing Guide: 309-314.Oxford University Press.

• Proudfoot D. (2017) Child machines. The Turing Guide: 315-325.Oxford University Press.

• Proudfoot D. (2017) The Turing test--from every angle. The Turing Guide: 287-300.Oxford University Press.

• Proudfoot D. (2017) Turing and free will: A new take on an old debate. In Floyd J; Bokulich A (Ed.), Philosophical Explorations of the Legacy of Alan Turing: 305-321. Berlin: Springer Verlag.

• Proudfoot D. (2017) Turing's concept of intelligence. The Turing Guide: 301-307.Oxford University Press.

• Proudfoot D. (2013) Can a Robot Smile? Wittgenstein on Facial Expression. In Racine TP; Slaney KL (Ed.), A Wittgensteinian Perspective on the Use of Conceptual Analysis in Psychology: 172-194. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137384287.0015.

• Proudfoot D. (2013) Software immortals: science or faith? In Eden A; Moor J; Søraker J; Steinhart E (Ed.), Singularity Hypothesis: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment: 367-392. Berlin: Springer.

• Copeland BJ. and Proudfoot D. (2012) Turing and the computer. Alan Turing's Electronic Brain: The Struggle to Build the ACE, the World's Fastest Computer: 107-148. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Proudfoot D. and Copeland J. (2012) “Artificial Intelligence”. In Margolis E; Samuels R; Stich S (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Cognitive Science Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Proudfoot D. (2011) Two Lectures on Religion by Karl Popper. In Jones C; Matthews B; Clement J (Ed.), Treasures of the University Canterbury Library: 173-177. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press.

• Proudfoot D. and Copeland BJ. (2011) Artificial Intelligence. In Margolis E; Samuels R; Stich SP (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Cognitive Science: 147-182. New York: Oxford University Press.

• Copeland J. and Proudfoot D. (2009) Turing's Test: A philosophical and historical guide. Parsing the Turing Test: Philosophical and Methodological Issues in the Quest for the Thinking Computer: 119-138. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6710-5_9.

• Proudfoot D. (2009) Fictional Entities. In Davies S; Higgins KM; Hopkins R; Stecker R; Cooper DE (Ed.), A Companion to Aesthetics (2nd ed.): 284-287. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

• Copeland BJ. and Proudfoot D. (2006) Artificial intelligence: History, foundations, and philosophical issues. Philosophy of Psychology and Cognitive Science: 429-482. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-044451540-7/50032-3.

• Copeland BJ. and Proudfoot D. (2006) Artificial Intelligence: History, Foundations, and Philosophical Issues. In Thagard P (Ed.), Handbook of the Philosophy of Science: Philosophy of Psychology and Cognitive Science: 429-482. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

• Proudfoot D. and Copeland BJ. (2005) Turing and the Computer. In Copeland BJ (Ed.), Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine: 107-148. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.

• Copeland BJ. and Proudfoot D. (2004) The Computer, Artificial Intelligence, and the Turing Test. In Teuscher C (Ed.), Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker: 317-351. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

• Proudfoot D. (2004) Robots and Rule-Following. In Teuscher C (Ed.), Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker: 359-379. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

• Copeland BJ. and Proudfoot D. (2002) Intelligent Machinery, Foreword to Christof Teuscher's. Study, Implementation, and Evolution of the Artificial Neural Networks Proposed by Alan M. Turing: vii-xiii. London: Springer-Verlag.

• Proudfoot D. (2002) Wittgenstein's Anticipation of the Chinese Room. In Preston J; Bishop M (Ed.), Views into the Chinese Room: New Essays on Searle and Artificial Intelligence: 167-180. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Conference Contributions - Published

• Temtsin S., Proudfoot D. and Bartneck C. (2022) A Bona Fide Turing Test. In HAI 2022 - Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Human-Agent Interaction: 250-252. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3527188.3563918.

• Zlotowski J., Proudfoot D. and Bartneck C. (2013) More Human Than Human: Does The Uncanny Curve Really Matter? In Proceedings of the HRI2013 Workshop on Design of Humanlikeness in HRI: from uncanny valley to minimal design: 7-13. http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5154796.

Conference Contributions - Other

• Proudfoot D. (2022) Ada Lovelace. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ: Artificial Intelligence Researchers Association Annual Conference, 28 Nov 2022.

• Proudfoot D. (2022) Intelligence naturalized, Turing-style. naturalism.irip.ac.ir: Naturalism and its challenges, 5-9 Mar 2022.

• Proudfoot D. (2022) Wittgenstein and Turing on AI: Myth versus Reality. New College of the Humanities, London, UK: 11th British Wittgenstein Society Conference: Wittgenstein and AI, 29 Jul-31 Aug 2022.

• Proudfoot D. (2021) Was Turing a computationalist? Warsaw University of Technology & University of Gothenburg: Workshop in Philosophy of Computing, 17 Sep 2021.

• Markoska-Cubrinovska A., Proudfoot D. and Copeland BJ. (2020) 2020 The Innocenti Maria Bocheński Year—his impact on logic in NZ. University of Canterbury: New Zealand Association of Philosophy Conference, 7-9 Dec 2020.

• Proudfoot D. (2020) The Lovelace Lecture: Did Turing endorse the computational theory of mind? University of Canterbury: UC AI Inaugural Conference, 9-10 Dec 2020.

• Proudfoot D. (2018) Rethinking Turing’s test and the implications. University of Edinburgh: Keynote address at the Rethinking, Reworking, and Revolutionising the Turing Test conference, 15 Nov 2018.

• Proudfoot D. and Markoska-Cubrinovska A. (2018) Popper and Prior in New Zealand. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand: The 2018 Prior Day, 3-3 Mar 2018.

Exhibition/Curatorial Exercises

• Proudfoot D., Markoska-Cubrinovska A. and Copeland BJ. (2017) Popper and Prior in New Zealand. Founder and director: [Digital research infrastructure and web exhibition of important documents by, or relating to, Karl Popper and Arthur Prior during their time at Canterbury University College/the University of Canterbury, 1937-58.].

• Copeland BJ. and Proudfoot D. (2000) The Turing Archive for the History of Computing. (A major online archive containing thousands of pages of digital facsimiles of historical documents and extensive catalogues and commentaries.) Ongoing 2000 to present. .

Oral Presentations

• Proudfoot D. (2019) Artificial Selves. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich: In 'Images of the Artificial' series, 18 Dec 2019.

• Proudfoot D. (2018) Testing Minds. ETH Zurich: In the ‘Images of the Mind’ lecture series, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich., 03 Dec 2018.

• Proudfoot D. and Copeland J. (2018) Computation and Mind. University of Zurich: Masterclass, 14 Dec 2018.

• Copeland BJ. and Proudfoot D. (2017) Turing's Imitation Game: What Does It Tell Us About the Nature of Intelligence? John Findlay Memorial Lecture. Boston University: 11 Dec 2017.

• Proudfoot D. (2015) Ada Lovelace: What If? Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem, Israel: The Ada Lovelace 200th Birthday Party.

• Proudfoot D. (2015) What Turing would have said to Lovelace. Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem, Israel: Computability Research Group Colloquium.

• Proudfoot D. (2014) Rethinking Turing's Test. University of Zurich, Switzerland: Interuniversitäres Kolloquium: Theoretische Philosophie: Begriffe, Ideen, Universalien.

• Proudfoot D. (2013) The emotional concept of intelligence, response-dependence, and Turing's test. University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia: HPRC School Seminar.

• Proudfoot D. (2012) Turing's intelligence test and his new view of the concept of intelligence. Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA.

Other

• Proudfoot D., Ulatowski J. and Jeremy Wyatt. (2023) PROSENTENTIAL THEORY OF TRUTH IN DOROTHY GROVER (1936–2017). ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CONCISE CONCEPTS BY WOMEN PHILOSOPHERS: Paderborn University.

• Copeland J. and Proudfoot D. (2020) Whole-​brain simulation, cryptography, and Turing's mystery machine. The Turing Conversation Zurich Switzerland: ETH Zurich. [online].

• Proudfoot D. (2017) Alan Turing and evil AI. Zurich Switzerland: ETH Zurich. Republished by Oxford University Press at OUPblog: Oxford University Press's Academic Insights for the Thinking World. [The Turing Conversation].

• Proudfoot D. (2014) Jakob Hohwy, The Predictive Mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013; ix + 282pp. Australasian Journal of Philosophy http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2014.973892. [Book Review].

• Copeland BJ. and Proudfoot D. (1999) Turing's Tragedy. Scientific American 281(2): 4.

• Proudfoot D. (1999) Facts about Artificial Intelligence. Science 285: 835.

Reports

• Board of Directors, TCZ. (2020) ETH Turing Centre Zurich Evaluation Report 2015-2020.1-56.

Performances

• Proudfoot D., Copeland J. and Falkenberg P. (2008) Can Automatic Calculating Machines be Said to Think? A recreation of a lost 1952 BBC radio broadcast by Alan Turing, Max Newman, Geoffrey Jefferson, and Richard Braithwaite. AAPNZ Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Student Supervision

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Current
• PhD - Maurice E: Indigenous agency
• PhD - Temtsin S: TBA
• Masters - Eder J: Moral Bio-enhancement, Climate Change, and Freedom
• Masters - Thompson M: Requirements for the compatibility of religious belief and secular moral theory
Completed
• PhD - Cooper J: 2006-PhD/DMA/EdD-Cooper, Jane (2006)
• PhD - Dawson R: 2008-PhD/DMA/EdD-Dawson, Richard (2009)
• PhD - Fan Z: On Computable Numbers (2022)
• PhD - Ferguson A: 2007-PhD/DMA/EdD-Ferguson, Alexander (2010)
• PhD - Nizar SMA: The Catuskoti - Historical origins and modern interpretations (2022)
• PhD - Robertson D: The Problem of Expertise: Epistocracy as a Potential Soution for Emerging Technology Governance (2019)
• PhD - Schofield J: 2013-PhD/DMA/EdD-Schofield, James (2017)
• PhD - Whittle P: 2008-PhD/DMA/EdD-Whittle, Patrick (2008)
• Masters - Hessell C: 2010-Masters Thesis-Hessell, Cameron (2012)
• Masters - Humphris T: 2012-Masters Thesis-Humphris, Teneille (2013)
• Masters - Knight L: 2008-Masters Thesis-Knight, Lesley (2012)
• Masters - Sloss J: 2006-Masters Thesis-Sloss, Jay (2006)
• Masters - Thompson R: 2010-Masters Thesis-Thompson, Ryan (2012)
• Masters - Sagadin M: iPhone film (2017)
• Honours - Dennison R: The gamer's dilemma and responses (2016)
• Honours - Gunn H: 2012-Honours-Gunn, Hanna (2012)
• Honours - Her S: The Memeticist’s Challenge Remains Open (2018)
• Honours - Hessell C: 2009-Honours-Hessell, Cameron (2009)
• Honours - Johnson P: 2008-Honours-Johnson, Philippa (2008)
• Honours - Koelet E: 2009-Honours-Koelet, Elizabeth (2009)
• Honours - Mackenzie S: Wittgenstein and Ethics (2015)
• Honours - Mather Z: 2007-Honours-Mather, Zane (2007)
• Honours - Maurice E: Wittgenstein, translation, and the Treaty of Waitangi (2015)
• Honours - McBeth D: 2006-Honours-McBeth, Daniel (2006)
• Honours - Millward D: A Philosophical Examination of the Harmful Digital Communications Act: Is Freedom of Expression in Jeopardy? (2016)
• Honours - Moore A: If a lion could talk we could not understand him. Wittgenstein and Animal Cognition (2014)
• Honours - Morton N: 2007-Honours-Morton, Nicola (2007)
• Honours - Nesbit R: Can artificial intelligences be worthy of moral consideration? (2013)
• Honours - Peters U: 2008-Honours-Peters, Uwe (2008)
• Honours - Renwick A: 2009-Honours-Renwick, Adam (2009)
• Honours - Robertson D: 2009-Honours-Robertson, Daniel (2009)
• Honours - Shih HY: 2007-Honours-Shih, Hao-Yen (2008)
• Honours - Speitel S: 2010-Honours-Speitel, Sebastian (2011)
• Honours - van Zwol E: 2008-Honours-van Zwol, Erik (2008)
• Honours - Vincent S: Can Computers have Emotions? (2013)
• Honours - Watt C: Dretske's theory of intentionality (2006)
• Honours - Westenra R: 2007-Honours-Westenra, Richard (2007)

Editorial Work

• New Zealand Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Editorial Board Member ( 2009 - 2023)