Most recent first. Also see my page of writings for the net.

See my separate page of writings on open access for a more complete list that includes interviews, essays written for my newsletter, and many other pieces omitted here.

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Open Access, MIT Press, June 2012. (The book will become open access one year after publication.)

Trends favoring open access, Cyberinfrastructure Technology Watch (CTWatch), in a special issue on The Coming Revolution in Scholarly Communications & Cyberinfrastructure, Vol. 3, No. 3, Fall 2007.

Creating an Intellectual Commons through Open Access, in Charlotte Hess and Elinor Ostrom (eds.), Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice, MIT Press, 2006.

Unbinding knowledge: a proposal for providing open access to past research articles, starting with the most important, in Giandomenico Sica (ed.), Open Access, Open Problems, Milan: Polimetrica, October 20, 2006, pp. 43-58.

Open Access in the United States, in Neil Jacobs (ed.), Open Access: Key strategic, technical and economic aspects, Chandos Publishing, 2006.

Open access, impact, and demand: Why some authors self archive their articles, BMJ, May 14, 2005.

• If the BMJ edition is not accessible, here's an OA copy.

Promoting Open Access in the Humanities, Syllecta Classica, 16 (2005) 231-246.

The Primacy of Authors in Achieving Open Access, Nature, June 10, 2004.

The Promise of 'Open Access' Publishing," transcript of a live, online colloquy sponsored by the Chronicle of Higher Education, January 29, 2004. Lila Guterman moderated the discussion and I was the guest who answered questions.

Open access: other ways, Nature, November 6, 2003. A letter to the editor.

• For a longer version of the same argument, see Do journal processing fees exclude the poor? in SOAN for 11/2/03.

Removing the Barriers to Research: An Introduction to Open Access for Librarians, College & Research Libraries News, 64 (February 2003) pp. 92-94, 113.

• Full text, 27k.

Is Your College Ready to Tackle More than Sweatshops?  Chronicle of Higher Education, August 2, 2002, p. B16.

• Full text, 12k.
• Reprinted in the National Association of Educational Buyers Journal, December 2003, pp. 8-9.

Open Access to the Scientific Journal Literature, Journal of Biology, 1, 1 (June 2002) pp. 3f. PDF edition. Free registration required for both the HTML and PDF editions. Here's an HTML copy for which no registration is required.

• Full-text, 12k.

Where Does The Free Online Scholarship Movement Stand Today?, Cortex, 38, 2 (April 2002) pp. 261-64. (PDF edition)

• Full-text, 14k.
• Reprinted in the February 2002 issue of the Association of Research Libraries' ARL Bimonthly Report. (The February issue came out in April.)

Noesis:  Is it a library with built-in searching or a search engine with a built-in library?, Syllabus Magazine, March 2002.

Saving Machines From Themselves:  The Ethics of Deep Self-Modification, forthcoming in Georg Trogemann (editor), Essays on Self-Modifying Media.

• Full text, 67k.

Review of George Dyson, Darwin Among the Machines:  The Evolution of Global Intelligence (Perseus Books, 1997), the American Philosophical Association's Newletter on Philosophy and Computers.

• Full text, 7k.

Articles on Amendment (I.31-32), Civil Disobedience (I.110-113), Paternalism (II.632-635), and Self-Reference in Law (II.790-792), in Christopher Berry Gray (ed.), Philosophy of Law:  An Encyclopedia, Garland Pub. Co., 1999.

• Full text, 6k, 14k, 15k, and 10k respectively.
• Sorry for the condensed prose in these articles. I had very little space in which to work.

The Case of the Speluncean Explorers:  Nine New Opinions, Routledge, 1998. Reprinted, with corrections, 2002.

• Preface and Introduction, full text, 25k.
• My contract with Routledge prevents me from putting the rest of the text online. However, I have put up a page of assignment ideas for teachers, errata, and other auxiliary content.
• Buy it from Amazon.com in paperback or hardback.

Infinite Reflections and its appendix, A Crash Course in the Mathematics of Infinite Sets, St. John's Review, XLIV, 2 (1998) 1-59.

• Essay, full text, 83k. Appendix, full text, 62k.

Six Exploding Knots. The English version is only available on the web.

• Full text, 21k.
• This essay has been translated into Dutch by Pieter van de Griend, "Zes Exploderende Knopen," Het Knoopeknauwertje, 9 (December 1997) 8-13.

Legal Reasoning After Post-Modern Critiques of Reason, Legal Writing, The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute, 3 (1997) 21-50.

• Full text, 83k.

Question-Begging Under a Non-Foundational Model of Argument, Argumentation, 8 (1994) 241-50.

• Full text, 36k.

A Year of Teaching with Dialog, Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy, 93, 1 (Spring 1994) 123-26.

• Full text, 20k.

Is Philosophy Dead? The Earlhamite, 112, 2 (Winter 1993) 12-14.

• Full text, 15k.
• Reprinted (HTML version) at the Philosophy News Service, July 20, 1999.
• Featured in Arts & Letters Daily, July 28, 1999.

The Database Paradox:  Unlimited Information and the False Blessing of 'Objectivity', Library Hi Tech, 10, 4 (1992) 51-57.

• Full text, 32k.
• This essay is a revised and expanded version of "How Teachers Teach, How Students Learn:  Teaching in a Blizzard of Information," in Evan Farber (ed.), Teaching and Technology:  The Impact of Unlimited Information Access on Classroom Teaching, Pierian Press, 1991, pp. 67-74, which is itself a revised and expanded version of "Teaching in a Blizzard of Information," Issues in Science and Technology, 5, 4 (July 1989) 29-31.

50 Years Later, The Questions Remain, Ellsworth American, August 27, 1992, Section I, p. 2. (On Kurt Gödel's trip to Blue Hill, Maine, in 1942.)

• Full text, 18k.

Unsimplifying Political Correctness, The Earlhamite, 111, 2 (Spring 1992) 23-25.

• Full text, 16k.

The Paradox of Self-Amendment in American Constitutional Law, Stanford Literature Review, 7, 1-2 (Spring-Fall 1990) 53-78. Essay-length synopsis of the book, Paradox of Self-Amendment, below.

• Full text, 73k.
• This essay has been translated into Portuguese by Fernando Borges Araújo, "O Paradoxo da Auto-Revisão no Direito Constitucional," Revista da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa, 31 (1990) 93-128.

Review of Jeff Mason, Philosophical Rhetoric:  The Function of Indirection in Philosophical Writing, (Routledge, 1989), in Philosophy and Rhetoric, 23, 2 (1990) 136-141.

• Full text, 15k.

The Paradox of Self-Amendment:  A Study of Logic, Law, Omnipotence, and Change, Peter Lang Publishing, 1990.

• Full text in 28 files. See the Table of Contents.
• The third Appendix contains Nomic, full text, 39k.
• I have written an essay-length synopsis of the book, full text, 73k.

A Case Study in Ad Hominem Arguments:  Fichte's Science of Knowledge, Philosophy and Rhetoric, 23, 1 (1990) 12-42.

• Full text, 90k.

The Reflexivity of Change:  The Case of Language Norms, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 3, 2 (1989) 100-129.

• Full text, 93k.
• This essay has been translated into German by Bertram Kienzle, "Die Reflexivität des Wandels:  Der Fall der Sprachnormen," in Bertram Kienzle and Helmut Pape (eds.), Dimensionen des Selbst:  Selbstbewußtsein, Reflexivität und die Bedingungen von Kommunikation, Suhrkamp Verlag, 1991, pp. 179-219.
• Second thoughts, full text, 3k.

What is Software? Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2, 2 (1988) 89-119.

• Full text, 85k.

Analogy Exercises for Teaching Legal Reasoning, Journal of Law and Education, 17, 1 (Winter 1988) 91-98.

• Full text, 20k.

Population Changes and Constitutional Amendments:  Federalism versus Democracy, University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, 20, 2 (Winter 1987) 409-490.

• Full text, article 82k, and four appendices, 54k, 29k, 33k, and 2k.
• Second thoughts, full text, 9k.

A Bibliography of Works on Reflexivity, in Bartlett and Suber (1987), below, pp. 259-362.

• I'll put this online after I convert it from the ancient word processor on which it was written, i.e. real soon now.

Logical Rudeness, in Bartlett and Suber (1987), below, pp. 41-67.

• Full text, 76k.

Self-Reference:  Reflections on Reflexivity, Co-edited with Steven J. Bartlett. Martinus Nijhoff, 1987. (An interdisciplinary anthology of essays.)

• I only plan to put my contributions to this volume online. See previous two items.

GradeSheet:  A Spreadsheet for Teachers, Sorcim/IUS Micro Software Inc., November 1984.

• This was written for CP/M machines. Let it rest in peace.

Nomic:  A Game That Explores the Reflexivity of Law, Scientific American, 246, 6 (June 1982) 16-28. A game with commentary embedded in column by Douglas R. Hofstadter. Reprinted, sometimes in revised versions, in many languages and many media.

• Full text, 39k. This link is not to the version in Hofstadter's column but to the version of the game in my 1990 book, Paradox of Self-Amendment.
• Also see my Nomic page.

The Place of Philosophy in the Humanities:  A Statistical Profile, Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, 55, 3 (February 1982) 417-23.

• Abstract, 5k.