IIMx Advisory Council: Dr Bruce Long

Nationality: Australian | +(61) 401772170 | bruce.long@sydney.edu.au | b.long@westernsydney.edu.au

PUBLISHED WORK

Long, Bruce Scientific Metaphysics and Information. Forthcoming from Synthese August-September 2019
Long, Bruce 2019 “A Scientific Metaphysics and Ockham’s Razor” forthcoming in Axiomathes. doi.org/10.1007/s10516-019-09430-5
Long, Bruce R. 2018 “ISR is Still a Digital Ontology” (Informational Structural Realism). Erkenntnis. doi.org/10.1007/s10670-018-0041-5
PhD Thesis: A Scientific Metaphysical Naturalisation of Information https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/19601
Long, Bruce R. 2014. “Information Is Intrinsically Semantic but Alethically Neutral.” Synthese 191 (14):3447–67.https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-014-0457-7
My MPhil in English incorporates continental philosophy and modern-postmodern literary theory https://goo.gl/2KAejP
Long, Bruce R. 2010. “Complex Science for a Complex World.” Metascience 19 (3):441–444. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-010-9427-y.

Papers in review:

Please email bruce.long@sydney.edu.au for a list of 10 papers in review and preparation.

July 2018 - November 2018	Tutor ‘What is the Human’: School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University
January 2018 - June 2018	Tutor in Identity, The University of Melbourne. Tutor in Reason and Logic, Federation University.
June 2017 - November 2017	Tutor in (Normative) Ethical Theory PHIL20008, The University of Melbourne
June 2014 - November 2014	Tutor in Ethics and Philosophy, Western Sydney University.
Jun 2011/12/13 - Nov 2011/12/13	*Tutor PHIL1013 Society, Knowledge, Self. The University of Sydney (3 semesters.)*
February 2013 - June 2013	Tutor PHIL1011 Reality, Ethics, Beauty at The University of Sydney
June 2012 - June 2013	Tutor in PHL134 Introductory Logic Macquarie University
January 2012 - June 2012	Teaching Assistant, Critical Thinking, Macquarie University
June 2003 - June 2008	Practical Tutor Database Theory and data flow modelling, The University of Western Sydney

EDUCATION
2014 - 2018	The University of Sydney PhD Philosophy
2009 - 2011	The University of Sydney Master of Philosophy (English)
2005 - 2009	The University of Sydney BA Honours First Class (Philosophy)
1990 - 1995	Charles Sturt University Bachelor of Applied Science Computing

Founder of The Institute for Informational Metaphysics iimx.info, a research institute with several projects and funding applications underway.
The development of information theoretic scientific metaphysics
Information Transmission, The Extended Mind, and Small Network Model Social Mindreading on the Internet
Information transmission in the infosphere and The Ethics of information transmission in the infosphere

Tutor and lecturer in Philosophy (analytic and continental, including logic)
Marker (for all topics listed above)
Reviewer (I have reviewed papers for Acta Analytica, Erkenntnis, and Synthese in the last five months: topics included scientific realism, ontic structural realism, and the philosophy of information)
I was awarded the Lucy Firth prize in 2014 for the above Synthese paper (I missed listing due to enrolment errors. Email available.)
I coined ‘Informationist Science Fiction’
Awarded a UPA Scholarship by The University of Sydney in 2009. Extended in 2012.
Dean’s Merit List, The University of Western Sydney, 2004

Please contact for referees contact details.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7616-6926

Friday, January 18, 2019