Mark Bedau

Mark A. Bedau is an American philosopher who works in the field of artificial life. He is the son of the philosopher Hugo Bedau (1926–2012).

Bedau teaches philosophy at Reed College. He is also the Co-Founder of the European Center for Living Technology (ECLT)[1] and Visiting Professor, Ph.D. Program in Life Sciences: Foundations and Ethics, European School of Molecular Medicine.[2] Bedau is also the editor of the Artificial Life Journal.[3]

He has been the COO of Protolife, a biotechnology start-up based in Venice, Italy.[4]

Recent books
  • M. A. Bedau and E. C. Parke, eds. The prospect of protocells: social and ethical implications of the recreation of life. Cambridge: MIT Press. 2009.
  • Mark A. Bedau, Carol E. Cleland. The Nature of Life: Classical and Contemporary Perspectives from Philosophy. 2011.
  • Mark A. Bedau and Paul Humphreys, eds. Emergence: contemporary readings in philosophy and science. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008.
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gollark: I'm not actually retrieving backups from it right now, so it's "fine".
gollark: This is... worrying, my backup disk's (fscrypt) encrypted bit somehow has correct file contents but mangled filenames.
gollark: Those don't support things like compressing using a shared dictionary, and also have inconsistent support for advanced features.
gollark: There are still cases where it might be useful to read part of an archive. Such as if you have tar-based backups, or you want to read just the metadata out of a package tarball, or you want to just list all the files in a big one.

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-12-14. Retrieved 2011-12-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "Mark A. Bedau".
  3. "MIT Press Journals".
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-04-17. Retrieved 2011-05-17.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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