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Spiritual:

• Growing Together
  Six workshops for learning what no individual can teach.
• Evaluating Objections to Faiths and Science (doc)
  A paper refutuing typical intellectual objections and attempting to explicate the gut emotional objections that actually block belief.
• Veritism, Placebos and Epistemic Packets (doc)
  A paper giving the mathematical argument that all efforts are truth should engage in the creation and promotion of religions (as in the paper above)
• Immanuel Presbyterian Church
  A Korean church in Madison, WI

Ethics for Artificial Intelligences
Invited paper for the 2002 Wisconsin State-Wide Technology Symposium, "Promise or Peril? Reflecting on Computer Technology: Educational, Psychological, and Ethical Implications"

About Predictive Deduction
A book about a step-by-step method to evaluate predictions for corporate planning.

How to Deduce that a Decision is Justifiable
An essay detailing a purely deductive, yet empirical, formal logic of decision justification.

A Problem with Probability

Invited paper for the 2001 Conference on the Philosophy of Logic, Math and Physics. Argues that intermediate probabilities cannot help in the justification of decision-making. 

Analysis of Strategy, Risk and Decision-making
Essays about methods for strategy development and decision-making in business and government.

Planning for the Surprisingly Slow Dawning of a Golden Age
An analysis of the open source software movement,  its potential extension into other industries, and a theory of Golden Age economics.

Are Human Beings Part of the Rest of Nature?

A paper coauthored with Elliott Sober and Karen Strier about whether explanation of features in other species extend to humanity. 

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