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 probably could, it would just be bad.
gollark: For example, if I install Arch on some random laptop from 10 years ago it'll probably run fine, although some hardware may not be supported and it might have trouble with browsers because those are horribly processing-intensive.
gollark: Amazingly, OSes can be mostly hardware agnostic.
gollark: <@151391317740486657> Mine seems to work fine.

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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