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Dr. Robert Koons
is a fellow of the International Society
for Complexity Information and Design and a professor of philosophy
at the University of Texas, where he has been since he earned his doctorate
from UCLA in 1987. His research has been in the areas of philosophical
logic, artificial intelligence, metaphysics, and the theory of causation
and proper function. He has published two books: Paradoxes of Belief
and Strategic Rationality (Cambridge University Press, 1992), for
which he received the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities from the
Council of Graduate Schools, and Realism Regained: An Exact Theory
of Causation, Teleology and the Mind (Oxford University Press,
2000). He is currently working on the logic of causation and the metaphysics
of life and the mind.
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