DR BRUCE LONG - CV
Published Work
- Long, Bruce 2023 Scientific Metaphysics and Information. Forthcoming from Springer Nature.
- Long, Bruce 2019 “A Scientific Metaphysics and Ockham's Razor” Axiomathes. doi.org/10.1007/s10516-019-09430-5
- Long, Bruce R. 2018 “ISR is Still a Digital Ontology” (Informational Structural Realism). Erkenntnis. doi.org/10.1007/s10670-018-0041-5
- Long, Bruce R. 2014. “Information Is Intrinsically Semantic but Alethically Neutral.” Synthese 191 (14):3447–67. link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-014-0457-7
- PhD Thesis: A Scientific Metaphysical Naturalisation of Information tinyurl.com/ybawx9o5
- Long, Bruce R. 2010. “Complex Science for a Complex World.” Metascience 19 (3):441–444. doi.org/10.1007/s11016-010-9427-y
- My MPhil in English incorporates continental philosophy and modern-postmodern literary theory goo.gl/2KAejP
Papers in Review
- Long, Bruce 2023 “A call for the inclusion of religious schizophrenia disorder in the DSM” (in review)
- Long, Bruce 2022 “Informational Strong Illusionism” (in review)
- Long, Bruce 2022 “Is histrionic personality disorder real or is it a misclassified adaptation?” (in review)
- Long, Bruce 2022 “The Informational Model of Mental disorder” (in review)
- Long, Bruce 2021 “Massive shmodularity: An information-theoretic model for cognitive representations” (in review)
- Long, Bruce 2020 “Against Absential Information” (In review: second round)
- Long, Bruce 2018 “Closing the explanatory gap with informational qualia” (in progress)
- Long, Bruce 2017 “Millikan’s Paintings: Transmission Non-accidentality Requires Physical Channels” (in progress)
Teaching
| July 2018 - November 2018 |
Tutor ‘What is the Human’: School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University |
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| January 2018 - June 2018 |
Tutor in Identity, The University of Melbourne. |
| January 2018 - June 2018 |
Tutor in Reason and Logic, Federation University. |
| June 2017 - November 2017 |
Tutor in (Normative) Ethical Theory PHIL20008, The University of Melbourne |
| June 2014 - November 2014 |
Tutor in Ethics and Philosophy, Western Sydney University. |
| Jun 2011/12/13 - Nov 2011/12/13 |
Tutor PHIL1013 Society, Knowledge, Self. The University of Sydney (3 semesters.) |
| February 2013 - June 2013 |
Tutor PHIL1011 Reality, Ethics, Beauty at The University of Sydney |
| June 2012 - June 2013 |
Tutor in PHL134 Introductory Logic Macquarie University |
| January 2012 - June 2012 |
Teaching Assistant, Critical Thinking, Macquarie University |
| June 2003 - June 2008 |
Practical Tutor Database Theory and data flow modelling, The University of Western Sydney |
Education
2023-Current |
The University of Adelaide |
2020-2023 |
The University of Adelaide |
2014 - 2018 |
The University of Sydney |
2009 - 2011 |
The University of Sydney |
2005 - 2009 |
The University of Sydney |
1990 - 1995 |
Charles Sturt University |
* I have completed 14 units of Grad Dip psychology across three institutions due to serious, illicit interference and exceedingly toxic behaviour by some academics. 9 HDs and DIs. Adelaide only requires 8 units for a full diploma.
Public Philosophy
Research Programs and Proposals
X-Phi, AI and Philosophy of Psychology
- Exploring the intersection of X-Phi, experimental psychology, and machine learning for implementing normative ethics and super-Asimovian AI safety measures in machine and deep learning systems.
- Informational (informationistic) model of mental illness.
- Memetics, narratology, and naturalism about information.
- Information Transmission, The Extended Mind, and Small Network Model Social Mindreading on the Internet.
The Philosophy of Information
- The development of information theoretic scientific metaphysics.
- The informational/informationist turn in philosophy and logic.
- Semantic Information transmission in the infosphere.
- The Ethics of information transmission in the infosphere.
Skills/Accolades
- Tutor and lecturer in Philosophy (analytic and continental, including logic).
- Marker (for all topics listed above).
- Reviewer (I have reviewed papers for Acta Analytica, Axiomathes, Erkenntnis, and Synthese: topics included scientific realism, ontic structural realism, and the philosophy of information).
- I was awarded the Lucy Firth prize in 2014 for the above Synthese paper (I missed listing due to enrollment errors, apparently/allegedly. Email available).
- I coined ‘Informationist Science Fiction’.
- Awarded a UPA Scholarship by The University of Sydney in 2009. Extended in 2012.
- Dean’s Merit List, The University of Western Sydney, 2004.
Academic Referees
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