Philosophy and mind

• Some Limitations of Behaviorist and Computational Models of Mind (unpublished 1986)
  
• Supervenience and Reduction in Biological Hierarchies (1988)
• Intrinsic Information (1990)
• Could I conceive being a brain in a vat? (1990) Australasian Journal of Philosophy
• Evolutionary Naturalism and the Objectivity of Morality (1993)
• Emergence of the Internal Perspective in Western Science (1996)
• On the Necessity of Natural Kinds (1996)
• The Dynamical Basis of Emergence in Natural Hierarchies (1998) with Scott Muller
• Autonomy in Anticipatory Systems: Significance for Functionality, Intentionality and Meaning (1999)
• Causation is the Transfer of Information (1999)
• The Dynamical Basis of Information and the Origins of Semiosis (1999)
• Autonomy and Process Closure as the Basis for Functionality (2000)
• Information Theory as a General Language for Functional Systems (2000)
• Information Theory (draft article, circa 2000)
• Dealing with the Unexpected (CASYS 2000)
• The Prospects for Reconciling Sellars’ Images: Forty Years Later (draft book chapter)
• Functionality and autonomy in open dynamical systems (Cog Science talk, October 2001)
• What is autonomy? (CASYS 2001)
• Interactively open autonomy unifies two approaches to function (CASYS 2003)
• Reduction, supervenience, and physical emergence ( Behavioral and Brain Sciences commentary, 2004)
• Self-organization, individuation and identity, Revue Internationale de Philosophie 59 (2004): 151-172.
• Saving the distinctions: Distinctions as the epistemologically significant content of experience (2004, with Konrad Talmont-Kaminski)
• Pragmatist pragmatics: The functional context of utterances (2005, with Konrad Talmont-Kaminski)
• Conditions for fully autonomous anticipation (CASYS 2005)
• A dynamic systems view of economic and political theory (Christian Fuchs and John Collier Theoria 113: 23-52, 2007)
• A dynamical approach to identity and diversity in complex systems (In Paul Cilliers ed. Complexity, Difference and Identity. 2010 Berlin: Springer. )
• Information, causation and computation (Forthcoming in Information and Computation: Essays on Scientific and Philosophical Understanding of Foundations of Information and Computation, Ed by Gordana Dodig Crnkovic and Mark Burgin, World Scientific)
  

Biology and Physics

• Entropy in Evolution (Biology and Philosophy 1,1986)
• Bridging the gap between pattern and process (With Dan Brooks and Ed Wiley, unpublished circa 1988)
  
• Two Faces of Maxwell's Demon Reveal the Nature of Irreversibility (Studies in the Hist and Phil of Science,1990)
• Timeless Laws in a Changing World: Reconciling Physics and Biology (unpublished, 1991)
  
• Critical Notice of Richard D. Alexander, The Biology of Moral Systems (CJP, 1991)
  
• Holism in the New Physics (Descant 1993)
• Information Originates in Symmetry Breaking (Symmetry 1996)
• Logical depth and biological complexity (circa 1998)
• Information Increase in Biological Systems: How does Adaptation Fit? In Evolutionary Systems, Gertrudis van der Vijver, Stanley N. Salthe
  and Manuela Delpos (eds) (Dordrecht, Kluwer, 1998): 129-140.
• A Unified Approach to Species (unpublished, 1998 version)
  
• Complexly Organised Dynamical Systems with C.A. Hooker (1999)
• Order From Rhythmic Entrainment and the Origin of Levels Through Dissipation (1998) with Mark Burch
• Notes for a talk: Information connects logic and causation. (May 2000)
• Symmetry, Levels and Entrainment (ISSS 2000) with Mark Burch
• Bénard Cells: A Model Disspative System (ECHO IV 2000) with Mishtu Banerjee
• Fundamental properties of self-organization (2003, INTAS, Moscow)
• Organization in biological systems (2003, INTAS, Moscow)
  
• Organized complexity: Properties, models and the limits of understanding (Havana 2004)
• Holism and emergence: Dynamical complexity defeats Laplace's demon (draft article)
• Hierarchical dynamical information systems with a focus on biology (Entropy 2003)
• Reasonable partiality from a biological point of view (Michael Stingl and John Collier, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 2005)
• Change and identity in complex systems Cumming, G. S., and J. Collier. Ecology and Society 10(1): 29. (2005)
  
• Self-organization: theories, models and applications (Wistar 2, 2007 Powerpoint)
• A review of the cohesion concept of species (ISHPSSB, Exeter, 2007, Powerpoint)
  
• Information in biological systems (Handbook of Philosophy of Science, vol 8, Philosophy of Information, 2008, Chapter 5f)

• Rhythmic entrainment, symmetry and power (in Kurt Richardson and Paul Cilliers (eds) Explorations in Complexity Thinking)

• A dynamical account of emergence (Cybernetics and Human Knowing, 15, no 3-4 2008: 75-100).
• Simulating autonomous anticipation: The importance of Dubois' Conjecture (ALife X 2006, Biosystems 2008)
• Evolutionary moral realism (draft version, with Michael Stingl)
• A dynamical approach to ecosystem identity (In press 2011, with Graeme Cumming. In B. Brown, K. de Laplante and K. Peacock, Philosophy of Ecology. (Dordrecht: North-Holland)