My name is John L. Taylor. I am a M.S. student of Logic and Computation at Carnegie Mellon University. My undergraduate degrees are in philosophy and psychology (with a minor in computer information systems) from Humboldt State University.

I am a notorious pack-rat and media junky. I enjoy collecting and reading books and papers, watching movies, and listening to music. Occasionally, I even do some work.

My general academic interests involve articulating and criticizing computational philosophy. My specific domains of interest include:

• Philosophy of Science
  • Hypothesis Assessment
  • Model Selection and Ockham's razor
  • Intertheoretic Reduction
  • The Role of Idealization in the Sciences
  • The Status Complex Systems Science
• Epistemology
  • Formal Learning Theory
  • Underdetermination and Incomputability
  • Indeterminacy of Translation and Interpretation
• Metaphysics
• Supervenience/Emergence/Multiple Realizability
• Theories of Causation
• Computation, Logic and Mechanism
• Virtual Machines, Emulation, Simulation
• Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science
  • Computationalism
  • Syntax, Semantics and Meaning
  • Frame Problem
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Category Formation
  • Knowledge Representation
• Metaphilosophy
  • Use and Limits of Conceptual Analysis
  • Philosophical Modeling
  • Formal Methods in Philosophy

For more academic information see my Curriculum Vitae.

For more personal information, try A Thoroughly Biased and Slightly Embarrassing (Incomplete) Mini-Biography