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He has published on epistemic questions in philosophy of religion,[1][2] as well as topics in philosophy of science,[3][4]philosophy of logic,[5][6][7]computational philosophy,[8][9] and agent-based modeling.[10]  He is author, co-author or editor of seven books in philosophical logic, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and computational philosophy.  He is currently editor of the American Philosophical Quarterly and founding co-editor of over  forty volumes of The Philosopher\u2019s Annual, an attempt to collect the ten best philosophy articles of the year.\u00a0 Grim’s popular work includes four video lecture series on value theory, informal logic, and philosophy of mind for The Great Courses.[11]  Grim’s academic posts have included Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy (Emeritus) at the State University of New York at Stony Brook,[12][13] \u00a0 Distinguished Visiting Professor in Philosophy at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, \u00a0and fellowships and lectureships at the Center for Complex Systems at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh.[12][14][15]The classic picture of the philosopher is as an individual working alone with quill and paper. Formal philosophy may take the form of theorems.\u00a0 Grim violates that picture in two respects: he is known as an innovator in computational philosophy, working extensively with computer modeling, and his work has often been conducted using a research team.\u00a0 Starting with work leading up to The Philosophical Computer, Grim, Paul St. Denis, and Gary Mar used results from chaos theory and fractal geometry as an inspiration for modeling self-reference in infinite-valued logics and embodied game theory within cellular automata to obtain results regarding the evolution of cooperation and the computational universality and formal undecidability of the spatialized prisoner\u2019s dilemma.\u00a0 In later work with other research teams he developed models of meaning, language acquisition, and Gricean pragmatics using simple agents embedded in a spatialized cellular automata environment of predators and prey and with learning techniques including simple imitation, localized genetic algorithm, and neural nets.\u00a0 Similar tools were applied with another team to questions of prejudice reduction, with an eye to the contact hypothesis in social psychology and using graphic models of model robustness.\u00a0 Leading a strongly cross-disciplinary team under the auspices of the Modeling Infectious Disease Agent Study, Grim developed network models of health-care belief dynamics and polarization in Black and White communities based on data from the Greater Pittsburgh Random Household Health Survey. Grim turned to models of scientific communication on epistemic landscapes, which branched out to \u00a0models of differences in network information transfer by way of \u2018germs, genes, and memes.\u2019 With a particularly long-lasting research team, his work has used agent-based modeling in focussing on issues of opinion polarization, with implications for political representation structures, the dynamics of jury deliberations, and formal measures of polarization.\u00a0 The role of expertise in group deliberations has also been part of the picture.\u00a0 Most recently, and with a further research group, Grim has developed Bayesian network models of scientific theories as \u2018webs of belief,\u2019 drawing implications regarding theory-sensitivity to evidence at different points and a Kuhnian punctuated equilibrium of scientific change.Within philosophy of religion, Grim is known for a Cantorian argument against the possibility of omniscience.\u00a0 In its simplest and original set-theoretic form (elaborated and buttressed in later work):There can be no set of all truths.\u00a0 Given any set of truths T, there will be a power set PT of all subsets of that set. For each element of that power set there will be a unique truth: that a chosen truth t is or is not a member of that subset, for example.\u00a0 But by Cantor\u2019s theorem the power set PS of any set is larger than the set S itself: any one-to-one mapping of elements of IS to elements of S is bound to leave some element of PS out.\u00a0 Any set of truths will therefore leave some truth out: there can be no set of all truths.\u00a0 But what an omniscient being would have to know would appear to be precisely a set of all truths.\u00a0 There can therefore be no omniscient being. \u25cf\u00a0 CategoriesPatrick Grim & Nicholas Rescher. Anthem, forthcoming.\u25cf\u00a0 Reflexivity: From Paradox to ConsciousnessPatrick Grim & Nicholas Rescher.\u00a0 Ontos Verlag 2012\u25cf\u00a0 Beyond Sets: Toward A Theory of CollectivitiesNicholas Rescher & Patrick Grim.\u00a0 Ontos Verlag, 2011\u25cf\u00a0 The Philosophical Computer: Exploratory Essays in Philosophical Computer Modeling.With Gary Mar and Paul St. Denis. MIT Press, 1998.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u25cf\u00a0 The Incomplete Universe: Totality, Knowledge, and Truth.MIT Press, 1991.\u25cf\u00a0 Mind & Consciousness: 5 QuestionsInterviews with Ned Block, David Chalmers, Daniel Dennett, Frank Jackson, Hilary Putnam, John Searle, Galen Strawson, and others working in Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science.\u00a0 VIP Automatic Press, 2009.\u25cf\u00a0 The Philosopher\u2019s Annual, Volumes I through XLI.  Founding co-editor.Basil Blackwell, Rowman and Littlefield, Ridgeview Press, CSLI and Univ. of ChicagoPress, now online at www.philosophersannual.org. 1979-2022.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u25cf\u00a0 Philosophy of Science and the Occult.\u00a0 Editor.SUNY Press, 1st edition 1982, 2nd edition 1991.Selected Articles and Book Chapters[edit]\u25cf\u00a0 Patrick Grim, Frank Seidl, Calum McNamara, Isabell N. Astor, and Caroline Diaso, \u201cThe Punctuated Equilibrium of Scientific Change: A Bayesian Network Model,\u201d Synthese 200 (2022): 1-25.\u25cf\u00a0 Patrick Grim, Trina Kokalis, Ali Alai-Tafti, Nick Kilb, and Paul St. Denis, “Making Meaning Happen,” Journal for Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 16 (2004), 209-244.\u25cf\u00a0 Patrick Grim, “Simulating Grice: Emergent Pragmatics in Spatialized Game Theory,” in Anton Benz, Christian Ebert, and Robert van Rooij, Language, Games, and Evolution, Springer-Verlag, 2011.\u25cf\u00a0 Patrick Grim, Daniel J. Singer, Aaron Bramson, Bennett Holman, Sean McGeehan & William J. Berger, \u201cDiversity, Ability and Expertise in Epistemic Communities,\u201d Philosophy of Science 86 (2019): 98-123.\u25cf\u00a0 Patrick Grim, Daniel J. Singer, Steven Fisher, Aaron Bramson, William J. Berger, Christopher Reade, Flocken and Adam Sales \u201cScientific Networks on Data Landscapes: Question Difficulty, Epistemic Success, and Convergence,\u201d Episteme 10 (2013), 441-464.\u25cf\u00a0 Patrick Grim, Daniel J. Singer, Christopher Reade, and Steven Fisher, \u201cGerms, Genes, and Memes: Functional and Fitness Dynamics on Information Networks,\u201d Philosophy of Science 82 (2015),\u25cf\u00a0 Patrick Grim, “Threshold Phenomena in Epistemic Networks,” Proceedings, AAAI Fall Symposium on Complex Adaptive Systems and the Threshold Effect, FS-09-03, AAAI Press 2009.\u25cf\u00a0 Patrick Grim, Evan Selinger, William Braynen, Robert Rosnberger, Randy Au, Nancy Louie, and John Connolly, “Modeling Prejudice Reduction: Spatialized Game Theory and the Contact Hypothesis,” Public Affairs Quarterly 19 (2005), 95-126.\u25cf\u00a0 Aaron Bramson, Patrick Grim, Daniel J. Singer, William J. Berger, Graham Sack, Steven  Fisher, Carissa Flocken, and Bennett Holman, \u201cUnderstanding Polarization: Meanings, Measures, and Model Evaluation,\u201d Philosophy of Science 84 (2017), 115-159.\u25cf\u00a0 Patrick Grim, “The Undecidability of the Spatialized Prisoner’s Dilemma,” Theory and Decision 42 (1997), 53-80.References[edit]^ Grim, Patrick (1985). “Against Omniscience: The Case from Essential Indexicals”. No\u00fbs. 19 (2): 151\u2013180. doi:10.2307\/2214928. ISSN\u00a00029-4624. JSTOR\u00a02214928.^ Grim, Patrick (2000). “The Being That Knew Too Much”. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion. 47 (3): 141\u2013154. doi:10.1023\/A:1004091304240. ISSN\u00a00020-7047. JSTOR\u00a040036041. S2CID\u00a0170067319.^ Grim, Patrick; Singer, Daniel J.; Fisher, Steven; Bramson, Aaron; Berger, William J.; Reade, Christopher; Flocken, Carissa; Sales, Adam (2013-12-01). “Scientific Networks on Data Landscapes: Question Difficulty, Epistemic Success, and Convergence”. Episteme. 10 (4): 441\u2013464. doi:10.1017\/epi.2013.36. ISSN\u00a01742-3600. PMC\u00a03968873. PMID\u00a024683416.^ Grim, Patrick; Singer, Daniel J.; Bramson, Aaron; Holman, Bennett; McGeehan, Sean; Berger, William J. (2019-01-01). “Diversity, Ability, and Expertise in Epistemic Communities”. Philosophy of Science. 86 (1): 98\u2013123. doi:10.1086\/701070. ISSN\u00a00031-8248. S2CID\u00a0125422221.^ Grim, P. (1984-10-01). “There is no set of all truths”. Analysis. 44 (4): 206\u2013208. doi:10.1093\/analys\/44.4.206. ISSN\u00a00003-2638.^ Rescher, Nicholas and Patrick Grim (2011). Beyond Sets: A Venture in Collection-Theoretic Revisionism. Ontos Verlag. ISBN\u00a0978-3-11-031975-0. OCLC\u00a0904304380.^ Grim, Patrick and Nicholas Rescher (2012). Reflexivity\u00a0: From Paradox to Consciousness. Ontos Verlag. ISBN\u00a0978-3-11-032018-3. OCLC\u00a0854864700.^ Grim, Patrick; Singer, Daniel (2020), “Computational Philosophy”,  in Zalta, Edward N. (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2020\u00a0ed.), Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, retrieved 2020-03-22^ Press, The MIT. “The Philosophical Computer | The MIT Press”. mitpress.mit.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-17.^ Grim, Patrick; Denis, Paul; Kokalis, Trina (2002-01-01). “Learning to Communicate: The Emergence of Signaling in Spatialized Arrays of Neural Nets”. Adaptive Behavior. 10: 45\u201370. doi:10.1177\/1059-712302-010001-03. S2CID\u00a0208041551.^ “Prof. Patrick Grim, PhD”. www.thegreatcourses.com. Retrieved 2020-07-09.^ a b “Patrick Grim | U-M LSA Center for the Study of Complex Systems”. lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-17.^ “| Department of Philosophy”. www.stonybrook.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-17.^ “Post-Docs\/Lecturers\/Visiting Scholars | U-M LSA Center for the Study of Complex Systems”. lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-17.^ “Center for Philosophy of Science\u00a0::: visiting fellows grim”. www.pitt.edu. 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