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Emeritus Professor Cliff Hooker

Director, Complex Adaptive Systems Research Group

Faculty:            Education & Arts
School:             School of Humanities and Social Science
Phone:                 + 61 2 4921 5185
Facsimile:            + 61 2 4921 6940
Email:              Cliff.Hooker@newcastle.edu.au

Location: McMullin Building, Room MC108c

Campus: Callaghan Campus, Newcastle

Brief Biography

C. A. Hooker, FAHA, PhD (Physics), PhD (Philosophy), is Professor of Philosophy, University of Newcastle. He is Director of the Complex Adaptive Systems Research Group, researching foundations of self-organisation, bio-cognitive organisation - both organismic and scientific evolution-development, and sustainable development, and author/editor of 20+ books and 100+ papers across these areas plus foundations of physics.

He is Director of Assessing sustainability dimensions and impacts, The Cooperative Research Centre for Coal in Sustainable Development, aiming to re-focus sustainable development around resiliency, and houses and supervises Sustainability Options for Australia's Future for the Joint Academies' Committee on Sustainability, Australian National Academies Forum. His articles have appeared in the Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, Proceedings of the British Academy and in many of the leading research journals.

He teaches these interdisciplinary ideas to engineers, psychologists and business students as well as to philosophy students.

Recent International Invitations

Visiting symposiast fellowships, Konrad Lorenz Institut, Vienna, 1998, 2003. The bio-cognitive ideas developed within the CASRG, especially by Christensen and myself, were the focus of a special international research symposium hosted by the Konrad Lorenz Institut, Vienna in July 2003
Invited speaker, Program in Philosophy and Cognitive Robotics, Lehigh University, USA, Research, research workshops on interactivist, embodied cognition, 1999, 2001
Visiting fellow in bio-cognition, Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of the Basques, San Sebastian, Spain, 2001
Visiting research lecturer in bio-cognition, University of Athens, Greece, 2001.
Invited speaker, British Academy of Science, Symposium on Evolution and Culture (London, UK), 1999
Several keynote addresses to international meetings.

Qualifications

Ph.D. (1970) - Philosophy, York University, Canada.
Ph.D. (1968) - Physics, Sydney University, Australia.
B.Sc. Hons. I (1964) - Physics, Sydney University, B.A. Hons. I (equiv.) (1967) - Philosophy, Sydney University.

Academic Appointments

1980-2006 : Professor, Philosophy, University of Newcastle, Australia
1973-80: Professor, Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, Canada
1970-73: Associate Professor, Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, Canada
1968-70: Assistant Professor, Philosophy, York University, Canada

Courses taught

PHIL1060, Introduction to Philosophy of Psychology
PHIL3720, Introduction to Philosophy of Cognitive Psychology
PHIL3910, Technology & Human Values
PHIL3930, Human Values & Commercial Practice
PHIL4000, Philosophy Honours
PHIL6910, Technology & the Environment
PHIL6920, Technology, Human Values & the Environment
PHIL6930, Business, Ethics & Values

Current Research

On-going research comprises 6 distinct streams, all closely interrelated through their employment of a core of complex adaptive system [CAS] models based on non-linear dynamical system [NLDS] theory. These streams are all active, and interactive, with some priority ordering, but ultimately the degree of their activation varies opportunistically, according as circumstances permit. They are presented in logical order, by decreasing generality of systems focus.

(S1) General systems metaphysics. The overarching aim here is to clarify the general mathematical and ontological foundations of all NLDS, especially CAS. Active associate investigator is Dr. John Collier, University of Durban, SA and ex-postdoctoral fellow at CAS Research Group [CASRG]. Two investigations are on-going.
(S1.1) Reduction and emergence in NLDS. Collier and Hooker are completing a book providing the first scientifically rigorous theory of reduction and emergence in NLDS. All 9 chapters have been drafted. For 2004 Hooker was privileged to publish a major (40pp.) lead article in The British Journal of the Philosophy of Science, the premier European journal in the field, on asymptotics, reduction and emergence. Collier has continued re-working the mathematical foundations (ch.s 2,3) while Hooker has been developing the analysis of multi-level functional capacities in NLDS (ch. 7).
(S1.2) Philosophy of complex systems, international editorship. Hooker has been invited by the international editorial board of the Handbook of Philosophy of Science to edit the volume 'Complexity, Chaos and Non-linearity'. He has invited Collier to join him in this prestigious task and an exchange of contracts for a 2007 volume (likely 2008 in practice) has been completed.
In addition, another investigation, Foundations of information in NLDS, by Scott Muller successfully concluded with the granting of his PhD thesis in 2004 to international, inter-disciplinary praise. A book based on the thesis is now in process with Springer.
(S2) Organisation of bio-cognitive agents. The overarching aim is to understand the general organisation of biological individuals, especially the sources of their adaptiveness, in particular their cognitive adaptiveness. Active UN investigator is Prof. C.A. Hooker, active associate investigators are Prof. M. Bickhard, Henry Luce professor of Psychology and Cognitive Robotics, Lehigh University, USA (ex-visiting fellow CASRG), Dr. Wayne Christensen, University of Durban, SA (and ex-postdoctoral fellow Konrad Lorenz Institut, Vienna and at CASRG ), and Prof. A. Moreno, University of the Basques, Spain (ex-visiting fellow CASRG).
The initial investigations by CASRG of biological organisation led to the fundamental organisational constraint called autonomy and to a cognitive methodology called self-directed anticipative learning [SDAL]. The SDAL methodology can facilitate the learning of solutions to problems for which even the problem itself let alone the solution method is initially not clear. This is the basic situation for all fundamental bio-cognitive problems. An invited special issue of the international journal Synthese on these ideas is being prepared under Bickhard’s guest editorship and a jointly authored book on the nature of autonomous systems has been given a first outline draft and is being considered by Bickhard and Moreno.
(S3) Bio-cognitive organisation and scientific learning. The overarching aim is to investigate basic learning processes in science using bio-cognitive organisation models. Active UN investigators are Prof. C.A. Hooker, Dr. Robert Farrell, postdoctoral research assistant, Dr. Yin Gao, active associate investigators are Dr. Wayne Christensen (see S2 above) and Dr. William Herfel (U. W. Sydney). Three investigations are current.
(S3.1) SDAL and scientific learning. Research by Farrell and Hooker (initiated in 2002/3 by Christensen and Hooker) has focused on the detailed examination of a prominent period in the history of science, the development of ape language research, examining it for lessons concerning learning processes. This work has nicely confirmed the SDAL model, an important, unique advance in a heavily worked area, and focused attention on the organisation of scientific methods as the driver of SDAL advance and the locus of the immense adaptability science has. A paper (by Farrell) is published, 2 joint papers have been accepted for publication (‘Perspectives on Science’ ) and a 3rd paper is in preparation.
(S3.2) Ecological organisation of science. For her successful and internationally praised PhD thesis, Gao pursued the issue of how like eco-system community organisation is science and what are its learning consequences. It is being further developed for publication as a book. It complements the work of CASRG RHD Yanfei Shi [PhD 2000] whose thesis on the economic modelling of scientific organisation was internationally acclaimed and immediately published (Elgar).
(S3.3) Dynamical models of science-technology-society processes. Concerned with elucidating the nature of science-technology-society dynamics, completed work includes 2 papers by Herfel and Hooker and Dr. J. White’s PhD thesis. Research is focussed on the unique public nature and role of technologies as a locus for understanding their surprising and increasing adaptabilities.
(S4) Bio-cognitive organisation and economic organisation. The overarching aim is to investigate how far basic economic processes can be usefully illuminated using bio-cognitive organisation models. UN investigator is Prof. C.A. Hooker, with Mr. Jason Tampake, research assistant to 2005.
Research by Tampake and Hooker has focused on the detailed examination of the economic theory of the firm as a first promising site for bio-cognitive modelling. This research has proven rewarding, revealing a recently crystallised focus on adaptability in the face of uncertainty as its hallmark that fits well with our SDAL models. The research is on hold until a replacement for Tampake is found.
(S5) Foundations of adaptive sustainability and its Australian energy policy consequences. The overarching aim is to re-formulate sustainability as a normative policy tool for application to CAS, in particular, ecological and economic systems, and to apply this to the formulation of Australian transitional energy scenarios to 2050. Active UN investigators are Prof. C.A. Hooker, Dr. T. Brinsmead, postdoctoral fellow and Mr. Karol Grezl, PhD student, with Prof. Peter Scaife, Sustainable Technology, an associate researcher. There are 2 strands ongoing.
(S5.1) Research for the Cooperative Research Centre for Coal in Sustainable Development [(CR)CCSD]. Hooker is project leader for P1.2, Sustainability Dimensions and Impacts. The point of the research is to provide CCSD, and its coal industry and Australian government backers, with strategic advice on (I) what sustainability amounts to, (II) what its implications are for Australian energy industries (especially coal industries), and (III) how to go about scenario-based planning of future technological and economic change to meet sustainability goals. The research is intended as an integrated work in 3 phases, one for each of these aspects.
In phase I (2002-4) a new conception of sustainability has been constructed [adaptive sustainability] and argued to be the superior and natural successor of the extant 2 conceptions [impact reduction and capital maintenance], based on an original systematic comparative analysis among the 3 sustainability concepts. The general implications have been sketched. Phase II (2004-6) situates sustainability assessment within the Australian economic and environmental context. It aims to find measures of sustainability - or at least 'key performance indicators' for same - and distinctively focuses on industrial infrastructure as a primary factor in the national support of energy technologies (because of our small markets, lack of venture capital and need to develop synergistic export opportunities). Across these 2 phases 7 Industry Discussion Papers [IDPs] have been produced. 2 substantial technical research/review papers (100+pp.) were submitted in 2004 for review; 1 has been published by CCSD in 2005, the other is in process. Several research papers are to be submitted for journal publication.
Phase III (2006-8) then uses the 'backcasting' method of scenario analysis to construct a future scenario framework for Australian energy policy analysis, thence to explore the major policy alternatives. This is the culmination of the study, integrating the outcomes of phases I and II to provide advice on the next 30 years of energy investment strategies. A similar output profile as for phase II is contemplated.
(S5.2) National Assesssment of Integrated Sustainability Methodology and Practice (for the) National Academies Forum [NAF]. NAF, through their Joint Academies Committee on Sustainability, appointed Dr. Brinsmead Director of this national ARC-funded project, conducted in 2004, with Hooker and Peter Scaife as NAF supervisors. The aim was to assess best practice in this newly emerging area that increasingly forms the framework for all major Australian and international sustainability studies, and to construct a public discussion for researchers and informed lay persons on this and its improvement. Following extensive international and national contacts, a major (100+pp.) report to NAF was completed, reviewing some 40 national projects and producing the first systematic analysis of their methodological character through development of an original framework for assessing this. Simultaneously, a formal website discussion of issues was constructed with eminent researchers agreeing to contribute their expert experience, as a basis for an ongoing public discussion.
(S6) Rationality as a specialised form of high order adaptive management. This perspective grows naturally out of the bio-cognitive approach and its applications in science, economics and adaptive policy. It leads to a richer conception of rational methods than does the traditional logic-based or game theoretic formulations. Active UN investigator is Prof. C.A. Hooker, with Prof. B. Hoffmaster (U. W. Ontario) co-researcher. Research is currently focussed on developing a new account of rationality and applying it to understand both applied science and applied ethics. A book draft is now near completion and it is hoped to complete the draft by August 2007, when it will be trialled in Hoffmaster’s postgraduate research seminar, Canada.

Research Training and Supervision

15+ PhD students successfully supervised in Canada and Australia
Supervised theses published as books include:
- Shi, Y. (2001), The Economics of Scientific Knowledge, Cheltenham, Glos., UK: Edward Elgar;
- Azevedo, J. (1997), Mapping Reality, Albany, N.Y., USA: State University of New York.
- Responsible for research groups in complex systems and sustainable development that include both post-doctoral fellows and PhD students

Research Grants

[2005] From aping to ape language: Methodological change thropugh self-directed anticipative learning is a principle driver of scientific progress, $11,000, University of Newcastle Internal Project Grant.
[2004] Sustainability Options in Australia, $65,000, National Academies Forum Learned Academics Special Project Grant (Shared)
[2004] Methodological development is a principle driver of scientific success, $13,000, University of Newcastle Internal Project Grant.
[2003] The bio-dynamics of learning and norms in science, $13.500, University of Newcastle Internal Project Grant.
[2002] Investigation of new foundations for economic organisation & dynamics in autonomous organisation & self-directing adaptiveness derived from biological counterparts, $14,000, University of Newcastle Internal Project Grant.
[2001] Understanding self-directed anticipative learning in science, $15,000, University of Newcastle Internal Project Grant
[2001+] Economic, social and environmental assessment: Sustainability criteria, modelling and evaluation, $420,000 ’01-‘04., Cooperative Research Centre: Coal in Sustainable Development, Senior Scientist Programme Grant.
[1998 - 2000], Reduction and Emergence in Non-linear Dynamical Systems, $125,000, Australian Research Council, Large/Project Grant
[1991 - 1995], Reason and Science, $149,000, Australian Research Council, Large/Project Grant.
[1985 - 1989], Evolutionary Epistemology, $102,000, Australian Research Council, Large/Project Grant.
[2000], Understanding self-directed anticipative learning, $13,000, Australian Research Council, Small/U. Newcastle Grant.
[1999], Intelligent organization, $13,000, Australian Research Council, Small/U. Newcastle Grant.
[1998], Autonomous Organisation, $14,000, Australian Research Council, Small/U. Newcastle Grant.
[1997], Dynamical Theories of Cognition, $8,000, Australian Research Council, Small/U. Newcastle Grant.
[1996], Self-organisation and Dynamical Models of Mind, $14,000, Australian Research Council, Small/U. Newcastle Grant.
4 earlier national large/project grants [Canada], 10 earlier small/U. Newcastle grants.

Research Publications

Books and Monographs

In preparation

(with C.B. Hoffmaster) Reason and Applied Ethics. [2008]
(with T.S. Brinsmead) Adaptive Sustainability: Principles and Policy. [2008]
Science as a Self-organising Regulatory System: Essays Toward a New Paradigm for a Cognitive Science of Science. [2009]
Complexity, Chaos and Non-linearity, volume 14 of the Handbook of Philosophy of Science, Amsterdam: Elsevier (General Editors: D.M. Gabbay, J. Woods, P. Thagard). [2009]
(with T.S. Brinsmead) Towards a Philosophy and Practice of Public Policy. [2009]
(with J.D. Collier) Reduction and Emergence in Complex Systems. [2010]
(with R.F. Farrell) SDAL Cycling: Toward a New Model of Research Process in Science. [2010]

A: Author

[2005] (with T.S. Brinsmead) Adaptive sustainability, a new concept of sustainable development and its place in a systematic analysis of sustainability concepts, Brisbane, Cooperative Research Centre for Coal in Sustainable Development. 110pp.
[2005] (with T.S. Brinsmead) Resilience: A systematic analysis, Brisbane, Cooperative Research Centre for Coal in Sustainable Development. 100pp.
[1995] Reason, Regulation and Realism: Toward a Naturalistic, Regulatory Systems Theory of Reason, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press. xiv + 432pp.
[1994] Value and System, Notes Toward the Definition of Agri-culture, Journal of Agriculture and Environmental Ethics, 7, Special Supplement, 84pp.
[1989] (with K. Hahlweg) Evolutionary Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, (in) Hahlweg, K. and Hooker, C.A. (eds) Issues in Evolutionary Epistemology, State University of New York Press, 1989. 130pp.
[1987] A Realistic Theory of Science, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press. vii + 479pp.
[1983] (with D. G. Holdsworth) A Critical Survey of Quantum Logic, Logic in the Twentieth Century, Scientia 1983 Special Edition, 120pp.
[1981] (with R. MacDonald, R. van Hulst, P. Victor) Energy and the Quality of Life, Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press. ix + 283pp.
[1973] Physics and Metaphysics: A Prolegomenon for the Riddles of Quantum Theory, (in) C. A. Hooker (ed.) Contemporary Research in the Foundations and Philosophy of Quantum Theory. Holland: Reidel. 130 pp.
[1972] The Nature of Quantum Mechanical Reality: Einstein versus Bohr, R. Colodny (ed.) Paradox and Paradigm, Pittsburgh Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. V. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press. 235pp.

B: Editor

[1999] (with B. Hayes, R. Heath, A. Heathcote) (eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth Australasian Cognitive Science Society Conference. Newcastle: University of Newcastle, Australia. CDROM. ISBN: 0 7259 1059 3.
[1989] (with Kai Hahlweg) Issues in Evolutionary Epistemology. State University of New York Press, 510 pp.
[1985] (with P. M. Churchland) Images of Science, University of Chicago Press, 308pp.
[1980/82] (with T. Schrecker) The Human Context for Science and Technology. Ottawa: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 1980, 459pp., The Human Context for Science and Technology: Final Report. Ottawa: Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 1982, 543pp.
[1975/79] The Logico-Algebraic Approach to Quantum Mechanics, 2 volumes. Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Co., I: Historical Evolution (1975), 607pp., II: Contemporary Consolidation (1979), 466pp.
[1979] Physical Theory as Logico-Operational Structure. Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Co, 334pp.
[1977] (with J. Leach and E. McLennen) Foundations and Applications of Theory, 2 vols. Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Co., I: Theoretical Foundations, 446pp., II: Epistemic and Social Applications, 208pp.
[1976] (With W. L. Harper) Foundations of Probability Theory, Statistical Interference and Statistical Theories of Science, 3 vols. Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Co., I: Foundations and Philosophy of Epistemic Applications of Probability Theory, 308pp., II: Foundations and Philosophy of Statistical Interference, 455pp., III: Foundations and Philosophy of Statistical Theories in the Physical Sciences, 241pp.
[1973] Contemporary Research in the Foundations and Philosophy of Quantum Theory. Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1973, 385pp.

Book Chapters

[2004] (with W.D. Christensen) "“Representation and the meaning of life” in Hugh Clapin, Phillip Staines and Peter Slezak (eds.) Representation in Mind, Amsterdam: Elsevier.
[2001] "An Integrating Scaffold: Toward an autonomy_theoretic modelling of cultural change", (in) M. Wheeler and J.M. Ziman, (eds.) The Evolution of Cultural Entities, British Academy of Science Symposium Series, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
[1999] "Unity of Science" (in) Newton-Smith, W. H. (ed.) A Companion to the Philosophy of Science, Oxford: Blackwell.
[1998] (with W.D. Christensen) "From Cell to Scientist: Toward an Organisational Theory of Life and Mind", (in) J. Bigelow etal. (ed.) Our Cultural Heritage: Proceedings of the Australian Academy of Humanities. Australian Academy of Humanities, University House, Canberra.
[1998] "Laws, Natural" (in) E. Craig (ed.), Routledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, London: Routledge.
[1997] (with W.E. Herfel) "Cognitive Dynamics and the Development of Science" in D. Ginev and R. Cohen (ed.) Issues and Images in the Philosophy of Science, Boston: Kluwer.
[1995] "Toward a Naturalised Cognitive Science" in Kitchener, R. and O'Donohue, W. (eds.), Psychology and Philosophy. London: Allyn and Bacon.
[1994] "Bohr and the Crisis of Empirical Intelligibility: An essay on the depth of Bohr's thought and our philosophical ignorance" (in) Faye, J. and Folse, H. J. (eds), Niels Bohr and Contemporary Philosophy, Dordrecht: Kluwer.
[1991] "Responsibility for the Environment: A Systematic Perspective," (in) Cooper, D. E. and Palmer, J. A. (eds), The Environment in Question: Ethics and Global Issues, London: Routledge.
[1991] "Between Formalism and Anarchism: A Reasonable Middle Way" (in) Munevar, G. (ed.) Beyond Reason: Essays on the Philosophy of Paul Feyerabend, Boston: Kluwer.
10+ earlier chapters.

Refereed Journal Articles

[2007] (with R. Farrell) “Applying Self-Directed Anticipative Learning to Science II: Learning How to Learn Across ‘Revolutions’”, 2007, Perspectives on Science, 15(2), 220-253.
[2007] (with R. Farrell) “Applying Self-Directed Anticipative Learning to Science I: Agency and the Interactive Exploration of Possibility Space in Ape Language Research”, Perspectives on Science, 15(1), 2007, 86-123.
[2004] “Asymptotics, reduction and emergence”, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 55, 435-479.
[2002] (with W.D. Christensen) “Self-directed agents”, in MacIntosh, J.S. (Ed.) Contemporary Naturalist Theories of Evolution and Intentionality, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Special Supplementary Volume, 2002, 19-52.
[2001] (with W.D. Christensen) "A general interactivist-constructivist model of intentionality", in MacIntosh, J. (Ed.) Contemporary Naturalist Theories of Evolution and Intentionality, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 31, Special Supplementary Volume.
[2000] (with W.D. Christensen) "An Interactivist-Constructivist Approach to Intelligence: Self-directed Anticipative Learning", Philosophical Psychology, 13, 5-45.
[2000] (with W.D. Christensen) "Organised Interactive Construction: The Nature of Autonomy and the Emergence of Intelligence", A. Etxeberria, A. Moreno and J. Umerez (eds.) The Contribution of Artificial Life and the Sciences of Complexity to the Understanding of Autonomous Systems, Communication & Cognition, 17, Special Edition, 133-158.
[1998] (with J.D. Collier) "Complexly Organised Dynamical Systems", Open Systems & Information Dynamics, 36, 1-62.
[1998] "Naturalistic Normativity: Siegel's Scepticism Scuppered", Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 29, 623-637.
[1998] (with W.D. Christensen) "Towards a New Science of the Mind: Wide Content and the Metaphysics of Organisational Properties in Non-linear Dynamical Models" Symposium on Mind, Special Issue, Philosophy and Language, 13 #1, 97_108.
[1998] (with W.D. Christensen) "The Dynamics of Reason, Critical Symposium on Paul Churchland: The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, LVIII(4), 871-878.
[1997] (with W.D. Christensen) "Selection Theory, Organization and the Development of Knowledge, Evolution and Cognition, 3, 44-8.
[1996] "Critical Notice of L. Smith and E. Thelen (eds) A Dynamics Systems Approach to Development: Applications", Philosophical Psychology, 10, 121-30.
[1996] "Review Essay of A. Derkson (ed.) The Scientific Realism of Rom Harré", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 47, 647-53.
[1995] "Critical Discussion of J. H. Holland, Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems", Philosophy and Psychology, 8, 287-99.
[1994] "Idealisation, Naturalism, and Rationality: Some Lessons from Minimal Rationality", Synthese 99, 181-231.
[1993] "Energy [Policy] in a Dynamic World", Transactions of Mechanical Engineering, Institution of Engineers Australia, ME18, #2, 101-18.
[1992] "Piaget's Psychology, Biology and Evolutionary Epistemology: A Regulatory Systems Approach", Biology and Philosophy 9, 197-244.
[1992] (with H.B. Penfold and R.J. Evans) "Control, Connectionism and Cognition: Toward a New Regulatory Paradigm", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 43, 517-36.
[1992] (with H.B. Penfold and R.J. Evans) "Cognition Under a New Control Paradigm", Topoi 11, June, 71-88.
[1992] "Physical Intelligibility, Projection, Objectivity and Completeness: The Divergent Ideals of Bohr and Einstein", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 42, 491-511.
50+ earlier papers

Articles in preparation

“Interaction and Bio-Cognitive Order”, to appear in Synthese, special edition on interactivism, M. Bickhard ed.
“Convention and scepticism”, Minerva, to appear.
(with J. Skewes) “A New Model of Agency that Reconciles Free with Rational Action”, submitted to
(with T.S. Brinsmead) “Adaptive Energy Policy Making” Brisbane: Cooperative Research Centre for Coal in Sustainable Development (2007).
(with R. Farrell) “Applying Self-Directed Anticipative Learning to Science: Identifying Error and Severe Testing Through Interactive Exploration of Possibility”, in preparation.
Integrative Design Methods Applied to Sustainable Urban Development Research, TS Brinsmead and CA Hooker, SSEE Conference 2007, Perth Oct/Nov 2007 (to appear)

Refereed Conference Proceedings

[2007] (with T.S. Brinsmead, G. Ellem, A. Johnson, R. Larkin, M. Licata, K. London, S. Lucas, A. Mackenzie, M. Ostwald, V. Wells and T. Young) “Means-ends inquiry: a strategy for directing inter-disciplinary research conversation”, TS Brinsmead, CA Hooker, in London K, G Thayarapan and J Chen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Symposium: Building Across Borders Built Environment Procurement CIB W092 Procurement Systems, p264-273, Centre for Interdisciplinary Built Environment Research University of Newcastle, ISBN: 9781920701834
[2004] (with T.S. Brinsmead) “Theoretical methodologies for sustainability policy: historical development and logical structure”, in Carlson E (Ed.), A Future that Works: economics, employment and the environment, Proceedings of the 6th Path to Full Employment Conference and the 11th National Conference on Unemployment: 8-10 Dec, Centre of Full Employment and Equity University of Newcastle.
[2000] (with W.D. Christensen) "Anticipation in Autonomous Systems: Foundations for a Theory of Embodied Agents", in D.M. Dubois (ed.) Proceedings, 1999 Computing Anticipatory Systems Conference, CHAOS, Lierge, Belgium.
[1999] (with W.D. Christensen) "The Organisation of Knowledge: Beyond Campbell's Evolutionary Epistemology", Philosophy of Science, 66 (Proceedings, PSA 1998), S237-249.
[1999] (with W.E. Herfel) "From Formal Machine to Social Colony: Toward a Complex Dynamical Philosophy of Science", in M. dalla Chiara etal. (eds.) Language, Quantum, Music: Select Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Boston, Kluwer.
[1999] (with W.D. Christensen) "Autonomous Systems and Self-Directed Heuristic Policies: Toward New Foundations for Intelligent Systems", in B. Hayes, R. Heath, A. Heathcote and C.A. Hooker (eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth Australasian Cognitive Science Society Conference. Newcastle: University of Newcastle, Australia. CDROM. ISBN: 0 7259 1059 3
[1994] "From Phenomena to Metaphysics" (in) Prawitz, D. and Westerstahl, D. (eds), Logic and Philosophy of Science in Uppsala: Select Proceedings of the 8th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Dordrecht: Kluwer.
10+ earlier papers.

Cooperative Research Centre Industrial Discussion Papers

[2007] (with T.S. Brinsmead) “Adaptive Backcasting: a method of possibility and design” Brisbane: Cooperative Research Centre for Coal in Sustainable Development.
[2007] (with T.S. Brinsmead) “Performance Indicators for Adaptiveness” Brisbane: Cooperative Research Centre for Coal in Sustainable Development.
[2006] (with T.S. Brinsmead) “Industrial Networks - an important framework tool for sustainable policy and planning” Brisbane: Cooperative Research Centre for Coal in Sustainable Development.
[2005] (with T.S. Brinsmead) “Sustainability: the basic idea”, Brisbane: Cooperative Research Centre for Coal in Sustainable Development.
[2005] (with T.S. Brinsmead) “Integration in Sustainability Assessment”, Brisbane: Cooperative Research Centre for Coal in Sustainable Development.
[2004] (with T.S. Brinsmead) “Adaptiveness Evaluation of Coal21 Report”, Brisbane: Cooperative Research Centre for Coal in Sustainable Development.
[2003] (with T.S. Brinsmead) “Adaptive Sustainable Development”, Brisbane, Cooperative Research Centre for Coal in Sustainable Development. Reproduced in the CSIRO Sustainability Newsletter, vol. 31, 2003.
[2003] (with T.S. Brinsmead) “Introducing adaptive sustainable development: a framework for policy and planning”, Brisbane: Cooperative Research Centre for Coal in Sustainable Development.
[2002] (with T.S. Brinsmead) “Introducing 3 Basic Concepts: System Efficiency, Resiliency, Adaptability - their natures and roles”, Brisbane: Cooperative Research Centre for Coal in Sustainable Development.
[2002] (with T.S. Brinsmead) “Efficiency, Resilience and Adaptability”, Brisbane, Cooperative Research Centre for Coal in Sustainable Development.

Non-Refereed Journal Articles

[2002] “Science: Legendary, Academic - & Post-Academic?”, Minerva, 41, 71-81
[1998] 'Being There: Putting Philosopher, Researcher and Student Together Again', Metascience, 7, 70-7.
[1996] (with H.B. Penfold) "Artificial Versus natural Intelligence: What Role for the Brain?", Search.
[1994] "Design Philosophy for a Dynamic World (trans. D. Fan), Journal of Dialectics of Nature (China), 16, 43-57.
[1994] "Naturalistic Realism: An Outline and Research Programme", (trans. D. Fan) Journal of Dialectics of Nature (China), 16 #2, 1-13.
[1991] "Discussion Review of Brown, H. R. / Harré, R. (eds.) Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Field Theory", Philosophy of Science, 58, 324-9.
10+ earlier papers

Consultancies & Community Service

(with D. Finlay, P. Kavanagh) Developed disabled-accessible environmental interpretation trail, Blackbutt Reserve, 1983.

Governance

Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities
- Elected, November 1987; Member of Council, 1989-1993
Member, Sectional Program Committee, Section 6: Methodology of Science, 10th International Congress for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, 1995.
Invited Member, National Committee for the History and Philosophy of Science, Australian Academy of Science, 1990-1992.
Chairman, Section 8 Program Committee: Foundations of Physical Sciences, 8th International Congress for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, 1987.
Invited Member, Standing Committee on Curriculum, New South Wales Education Commission, 1982-5.
President, Australasian Association of Philosophy, 1981-1982.
President, Physical Sciences Division, 5th International Congress in Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, 1975.
Vice President, Problematica VII, 15th World Congress of Philosophy, 1973.
University of Newcastle
- 1987-9, 1991 Chair, 1992-6 Member, Human Research Ethics Committee
- 1980-83, 1991-2000, Head of Department
- 1987-9, 2002 (Sem.1) Member, Senate Research Committee
- 1997-2000, Faculty of Arts, 2002-4 Faculty of Education & Arts, Research Committee
- Member of numerous appointment and tenure committees in various faculties.

Membership of Networks and Professional Associations

Member of several professional associations.