Original published in 1984 (Conference Record of the Eleventh Annual acm Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (popl), Salt Lake City, Utah, Jan. 1984, pp. 23–35)
Original published in 1986 (Joseph Y. Halpern (ed.), Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning about Knowledge: Proceedings of the 1986 Conference, Monterey, California, March 19–22.)
3Lisp Implementation
(1984) Technical paper on the implementation of 3-Lisp, with Jim des Rivieres. 40 pages.
Foundations of Computing
(2009, v0.80) The paper is intended to serve as an introduction to the Age of Significance. 40 pages.
Annotated (2009) Original published in 2002 (Matthias Scheutz, ed., Computationalism: New Directions, MIT Press, 2002, pp. 23–58.)
Limits of Correctness
(edited 2014, vC.04) Originally presented at a Symposium on Unintentional Nuclear War at the Fifth Congress of the International Physicians for the Prevention Nuclear War, Budapest, Hungary. 34 pages.
Original published in 1985 (June 28–July 1, 1985.)
Encounter
(2012, v0.73) Brian's analysis of the potential for interactions between computing and philosophy. 74 pages.
Original published in 1997 (Cog Sci News, Lehigh University, 1997)
Indiscrete Affairs
(2009, v0.60) An analysis of digitality, and a demonstration of the plethora of dimensions and peculiarities of this notion. 27 pages.
Deconstructing Digitality
(2007) Dismantling some of our preconceptions about the foundations of the Information Age. 5 pages.
From E & M to M & E
(edited 2009, v0.80) A journey through the landscape of computing. 'Electricity & Magnetism' to 'Metaphysics & Epistemology'. 23 pages.
Original published in 2008 (Luciano Floridi, ed., Philosophy of Computing and Information: 5 Questions, Automatic Press/VIP)
Formality and Separation
(1991) Position paper given at the Oksnoen Workshop, June 1991. 16 pages.
Requiem for the Computational Theory of Mind
(edited 2010) Talk given as the Presidential Address for the 25th Anniversary Meeting of the Society for Philosophy & Psychology. 22 pages.
Original published in 1999 (Presidential Address, 25th Anniversary Meeting, Society for Philosophy & Psychology, June 21, 1999)
Défaire l'Occident
(2013) Notes for a talk ('Dismantle the West') given at a summer school in Plainartige, France. 26 pages.
Four Dialects of Computing
(1999) Discussion of four fundamental dialects: meaning/mechanism; abstract/concrete; static/dynamic; singular/plural (one/many). 24 pages.
Subjectivity & Objectivity
(2009, v0.80) Presented as the Thomas Langford Inaugural Lecture at Duke University. 23 pages.
Original published in 2001 (Presented as the Thomas Langford Inaugural Lecture at Duke University on December 4, 2001, in conjunction with taking up the Kimberly Jenkins University Professorship in Philosophy and New Technology.)
Annotated (2018) Original published in 1987 (Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) January 1987 Report No. CSLI-87-71)
Rehabilitating Representation
(edited 2009) Lightly-edited version of a paper delivered at a workshop on Intentionality and the Natural Mind sponsored by the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program, Washington University in St. Louis. 83 pages.
The Nonconceptual World
(2009, v0.60) An argument against classical ontology, which takes the world to come in something like “conceptual form”—objects exemplifying properties. 38 pages.
Dennet on Smith
(2009, v0.80) Daniel C. Dennett commenting on Brian Cantwell Smith, and reply. Includes text of a discussion with Rob Cummins. Edited by Hugh Clapin. 74 pages.
Original published in 2002 (Hugh Clapin (ed.), Philosophy of Mental Representation, Oxford University Press, 2002)
Effing the Ineffable
(2021) Talk notes and slides. Articulation of how much the world transcends our ability to understand it. 24 pages.
Who's on Third? (Talk)
(2017) Notes/slides. An account of how the subjective (“phenomenal”) feel of consciousness is a natural consequence of any (adequate) view of intentionality and registration that is not based on an ontologically-given world. 38 pages.
God, Approximately
(2009) A number of manuscripts have been circulated under this title. 43 pages.
Original published in 1994 (W. Mark Richardson and Philip Clayton, eds., Science and the Spiritual Quest: New Essays by Leading Scientists, Routledge, 2002, pp. 207-28.)
Third Day
(edited 2009, v0.80) Essay written to accompany a catalogue of Adam Lowe’s paintings. 13 pages.
Original published in 1992 (Essay written to accompany a catalogue of Adam Lowe’s paintings; published in Registration Marks, «Ref: Permaprint... 1992»)
It’s Harder Than That
(2001) Notes for a talk. Upping the Ante on the Science / Religion Debate. 12 pages.