Jeffrey A. Barrett

Selected Preprints and Papers

Barrett, J.A. (2009) "Faithful description and the incommensurability of evolved languages," Philosophical Studies.

Barrett, J.A. and W. Aitken (2009) “On the Physical Possibility of Ordinal Computation.”

Barrett, J. A. (2009) “The Evolution of Coding in Signaling Games,” Theory and Decision 67: 223-237.

Barrett, J. A. and K. Zollman (2008) “The Role of Forgetting in the Evolution and Learning of Language,” forthcoming in the Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence.

Barrett, J. A. (2008) “Faithful Description and the Incommensurability of Evolved Languages,” forthcoming in Philosophical Studies.

Barrett, J. A. (2008) “Approximate Truth and Descriptive Nesting,” Erkenntnis 68: 213-24.

Barrett, J. A. (2008) “Wigner’s Friend and Bell’s Field Beables,” forthcoming in the Electronic Journal of Theoretical Physics.

Barrett, J. A. (2007) “Dynamic Partitioning and the Conventionality of Kinds,” Philosophy of Science 74: 527-46.

Aitken W. and J. A. Barrett (2007) “Abstraction in Algorithmic Logic,” Journal of Philosophical Logic 37: 23-43.

Aitken W. and J. A. Barrett (2007) “Stability and Paradox in Algorithmic Logic,” Journal of Philosophical Logic, 36(1): 61-95.

Barrett, J. A. (2006) “Numerical Simulations of the Lewis Signaling Game: Learning Strategies, Pooling Equilibria, and the Evolution of Grammar,” Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences. Paper 54. http://repositories.cdlib.org/imbs/54

Barrett, J. A. (2006) “A Quantum-Mechanical Argument for Mind-Body Dualism,” Erkenntnis, 65(1): 97-115.

Barrett, J. A. (2005) “Relativistic Quantum Mechanics Through Frame-Dependent Constructions,” Philosophy of Science. 72: 802–813.

Barrett, J. A. (2005) “The Preferred Basis Problem and the Quantum Mechanics of Everything,” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 56(2): 199-220.

Barrett, J. A. and Aitken W. (2004) “Stability and Paradox in Algorithmic Logic”.

Barrett, J. A. (2004) “Relativistic Quantum Mechanics Through Frame-Dependent Constructions” forthcoming in Philosophy of Science.

Barrett, J. A. and Aitken W. (2004) “Computer Implication and the Curry Paradox” forthcoming in the Journal of Philosophical Logic.

Barrett, J. A. (2004) “Many-Worlds and Many-Minds Formulations of Quantum Mechanics” forthcoming in the Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Barrett, J. A. (2004) “The Preferred Basis Problem and the Quantum Mechanics of Everything” forthcoming in BJPS.

Barrett, J. A. (2004) “On the Cognitive Status of our Best Physical Theories”.

Barrett, J. A. and P. K. Stanford (2004) “Prediction” forthcoming in Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Barrett, J. A. (2003) “Are Our Best Physical Theories Probably and/or Approximately True?” Philosophy of Science.70: 1206-1218.

Livingston, P. and J. A. Barrett (2003) “Pure Pragmatics and the Transcendence of Belief”

Barrett, J. A. (2003) "Everett's Relative-State Formulation of Quantum Mechanics," in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Barrett, J. A. and F. Arntzenius (2002) “Why the Infinite Decision Puzzle is Puzzling,” Theory and Decision 52(2): 139-147.

Barrett, J. A. (2002) “The Nature of Measurement Records in Relativistic Quantum Field Theory,” in M. Kuhlman, H. Lyre, and A. Wayne (eds.) Ontological Aspects of Quantum Field Theory, World Scientific, Singapore (2002).

Barrett, J. A. (2001) “Toward a Pragmatic Account of Scientific Knowledge”

Barrett, J. A. (2000) “The Persistence of Memory: Surreal Trajectories in Bohm’s Theory,” Philosophy of Science 67(4): 680-703.

Barrett, J. A. (1999) The Quantum Mechanics of Minds and Worlds, Oxford University Press: Oxford.

Barrett, J. A. (1998) "The Bare Theory and How to Fix It," in The Modal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, D. G. B. J. Dieks and P. E. Vermaas (eds), Kluwer Academic Press (1998).

Barrett, J. A. and F. Arntzenius (1998) "An Infinite Decision Puzzle," Theory and Decision 46(1): 101-103.

Barrett, J. A. (1998) "On the Nature of Experience in the Bare Theory," Synthese 113(3): 347-55.

Barrett, J. A. (1997) "On Everett's Formulation of Quantum Mechanics," Monist, 80(1): 70-96.

Barrett, J. A. (1996) "Oracles, Aesthetics, and Bayesian Consensus," Philosophy of Science, 63(3): 273-280.

Barrett, J. A. (1996) "Empirical Adequacy and the Availability of Reliable Records in Quantum Mechanics," Philosophy of Science, 63(1): 49-64.

Barrett, J. A. (1995) "The Single-Mind and Many-Minds Versions of Quantum Mechanics," Erkenntnis 42: 89-105.

Barrett, J. A. (1995) "The Distribution Postulate in Bohm's Theory," Topoi, 14(1): 45-54.

Barrett, J. A. and D. Z. Albert (1995) "On What It Takes to Be a World," Topoi, 14(1): 35-37.

Barrett, J. A. (1995) "Quantum Mechanics and the Measurement Problem-- Introduction," Topoi, 14(1): 1-6.

Barrett, J. A. (1994) "The Suggestive Properties of the Bare Theory of Quantum Mechanics," Erkenntnis 41: 233-252.