Automatic Press / VIP is an independent publishing house founded in 2005 as an imprint of VINCE INC Press. The press specializes in interview books featuring prominent scholars and philosophers - called the 5 Questions Series. Automatic Press / VIP also publishes independent titles.

Each book is a collection of short interviews based on 5 questions presented to some of the most influential and prominent scholars in a particular field. We hear their views aim, scope, use, the future direction and how their work fits in these respects. 

Among the interviewees are Nobel Prize Laureates - Philip Anderson, Robert Aumann, Thomas Schelling and Steven Weinstein - and luminaries like Hilary Putnam, Bruno Latour, Douglas Hofstadter, Hilary Putnam, Martha Nussbaum, John R. Searle, Jaegwon Kim, Peter Singer, Daniel Dennett, Fred Dretske, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Peter Galison, Philip Petit, Bill McKibben, Susan Haack, Galen Strawson, Clark Nøren Glymour, Ariel Rubinstein, Crispin Wright, Donna J. Haraway, Charles Parsons, Hubert L. Dreyfus, Colin Camerer, Solomon Feferman, John Bell, Timothy Williamson, Stephen Wolfram, Jaakko Hintikka, Nancy Cartwright, Johan van Benthem, Steven Stich, Rohit Parikh, Krister Segerberg and many many others.

Editor-in-Chief: Vincent F. Hendricks
Managing Editor: Rasmus Rendsvig

     
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5 QUESTIONS SERIES    
       

 

FORMAL PHILOSOPHY

edited by
Vincent F. Hendricks
John Symons

October 2005

ISBN 8799101300

Interviws with Johan van Benthem, Brian F. Chellas, Anne Fagot-Largeault, Melvin Fitting, Dagfinn Føllesdal, Haim Gaifman, Clark Nøren Glymour, Adolf Grünbaum, Susan Haack, Sven Ove Hansson, Jaakko Hintikka, Isaac Levi, H. Jerome Keisler, Ruth Barcan Marcus, Rohit Parikh, Jeff Paris, Gabriel Sandu, Krister Segerberg, Wolfgang Spohn, Patrick Suppes, Timothy Williamson

Read snippets at www.formalphilosophy.com

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MASSES OF FORMAL PHILOSOPHY

edited by
Vincent F. Hendricks
John Symons

October 2006

ISBN 8799101335

Interviews with Ken Binmore, Alexandre Costa-Leite, Branden Fitelson, Donald Gillies, Paul Gochet, Valentin Goranko, Alan Hajék, Jeffrey Helzner, Dale Jacquette, Mark Jago, Edwin Mares, Greg Restall, John F. Sowa, Alasdair Urquhart, Heinrich Wansing, Dag Westerståhl, Jan Wolenski, John Woods

Read snippets at www.formalphilosophy.com/masses

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5 Questions on Political Philosophy

edited by
Morten Ebbe Juul Nielsen

December 2006,

ISBN 8799101327 (paperback)

Interviews with Kwame Anthony Appiah, Richard Bellamy, Allen Buchanan, William A. Galston, Amy Gutmann, Andrew Mason, Martha Nussbaum, Chandran Kukathas, Philippe van Parijs, Philip Pettit, John E. Roemer, George Sher, Larry S. Temkin, Peter Vallentyne, Michael Walzer, Andrew Williams, Jonathan Wolff, Bernard Yack

Read snippets at www.politicalquestions.org

 
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Philosophy of Technology: 5 Questions

edited by
Jan-Kyrre Berg Olsen
Evan Selinger

February 2007

ISBN 8799101386

Interviews with Joseph Agassi, Albert Borgmann, Mario Bunge, Harry Collins, Paul Durbin, Andrew Feenberg, Joan H. Fujimura, Peter Galison, Allan Hanson, Donna J. Haraway, N. Katherine Hayles, Don Ihde, Ian C. Jarvie, Bruno Latour, Bill McKibben, Carl Mitcham, Andrew Pickering, Daniel Sarewitz, Evan Selinger, Dan A. Seni, Peter Singer, Susan Leigh Star, Isabelle Stengers, Lucy Suchman

Read snippets at www.philosophytechnology.com

Review in Science, Tech. and Human Value, 2010
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Game Theory: 5 Questions

edited by
Vincent F. Hendricks
Pelle Guldborg Hansen,

April 2007
ISBN 8799101343

Interviews with Robert Aumann, Johan van Benthem, Cristina Bicchieri, Ken Binmore, Adam Brandenburger, Colin F. Camerer, Alan Grafen, Peter Hammerstein, Sergiu Hart, Ehud Kalai, David M. Kreps, Herve Moulin, Rohit Parikh, Ariel Rubinstein, Larry Samuelson, Thomas C. Schelling, Brian Skyrms, Robert Sugden, H. Peyton Young

Read snippets at www.gametheorists.com
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Legal Philosophy: 5 Questions

edited by
Morten Ebbe Juul Nielsen

August 2007
ISBN 8792130011

Interviews with Robert Alexy, Tom Campbell, Jules Coleman, Antony Duff, John Gardner, Ruth Gavison, Leslie Green, Andrew von Hirsch, Tony Honore, Douglas Husak, Nicola Lacey, Brian Leiter, David Lyons, Neil MacCormick, Mark Murphy, Stanley L. Paulson, Stephen Perry, Fred Schauer, Scott Shapiro, Nicos Stavropoulos

Read snippets at www.legalphilosophy.org
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Normative Ethics: 5 Questions

edited by

Thomas S. Petersen
Jesper Ryberg

June 2007
ISBN 978-8792130006

Interviews with Elizabeth S. Anderson, John Broome, Roger Crisp, Gerald Dworkin, Fred Feldman, John Harris, David Heyd, Thomas Hurka, Rosalind Hursthouse, Frances Kamm, Jeff McMahan, Jan Narveson, Onora O’Neill, Ingmar Persson, Janet Radcliffe Richards, John Skorupski, Michael Slote, Wayne Sumner, Torbjörn Tännsjö, Larry Temkin, Peter Vallentyne

Read snippets at www.normativeethics.com

Review in Theoria, 2008
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Philosophy of Mathematics: 5 Questions

edited by
Vincent F. Hendricks Hannes Leitgeb

December 2007
ISBN 8799101351

Interviews with Jeremy Avigad, Steve Awodey, John L. Bell, Douglas Bridges, Charles S. Chihara, Mark Colyvan, E. Brian Davies, Michael Detlefsen, Solomon Feferman, Harvey Friedman, Bob Hale, Geoffrey Hellman, Jaakko Hintikka, Thomas Jech, H. Jerome Keisler, Ulrich Kohlenbach, Penelope Maddy, Paolo Mancosu, Charles Parsons, Michael D. Resnik, Stewart Shapiro, Wilfried Sieg, Steven Simpson, William Tait, Albert Visser, Alan Weir, Philip Welch, Crispin Wright, Edward Zalta

Read snippets at www.phil-math.org
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PHILOSOPHY OF INFORMATION: 5 Questions

edited by
Luciano Floridi

July 2008
ISBN 8792130097

 

Interviews with Margaret A. Boden, Valentino Braitenberg, Brian Cantwell-Smith, Gregory Chaitin, Daniel C. Dennett, Keith Devlin, Fred Dretske, Hubert L. Dreyfus, Luciano Floridi, Tony Hoare, John McCarthy, John R. Searle, Aaron Sloman, Patrick Suppes, Johan van Benthem, Terry Winograd, Stephen Wolfram

 

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Philosophy of THE social scienceS: 5 questions

edited by
Diego Rios
C. Schmidt-Petri

September 2008
ISBN 8792130127

 

Interviews with David Bloor, Raymond Boudon, Mario Bunge, Margaret Gilbert, Daniel Hausman, Harold Kincaid, Daniel Little, Steven Lukes, Nancy Cartwright, David Papineau, Philip Pettit, Alexander Rosenberg, David-Hillel Ruben, John Searle, Raimo Tuomela
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EPISTEMOLOGY: 5 Questions

edited by
Vincent F. Hendricks
Duncan Pritchard

September 2008
ISBN 8792130070
372 pages

Horacio Arlo-Costa, Sergei Artemov, Alexandru Baltag, Johan van Benthem, Luc Bovens, Lorraine Code, Fred Dretske, Pascal Engel, Robert Fogelin, Alvin I. Goldman, Clark Glymour, Alan Hájek, Joseph Y. Halpern, Sven Ove Hansson, Jaakko Hintikka, Wiebe van der Hoek, Kevin T. Kelly, Martin Kutsch, Jonathan L. Kvanvig, Isaac Levi, Rohit Parikh, John L. Pollock, Krister Segerberg, Ernest Sosa, Wolfgang Spohn, Timothy Williamson, Linda Zagzebski
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COMPLEXITY: 5 Questions

edited by
Carlos Gershenson

November 2008
ISBN 8792130135
156 pages

 

Peter M. Allen, Philip W. Anderson, W. Brian Arthur, Yaneer Bar-Yam, Eric Bonabeau, Paul Cilliers, Jim Crutchfeld, Bruce Edmonds, Nigel Gilbert, Hermann Haken, Francis Heylighen, Bernardo A. Huberman, Stuart A. Kaufman, Seth Lloyd, Gottfried Mayer-Kress, Melanie Mitchell, Edgar Morin, Mark Newman, Grégoire Nicolis, Jordan B. Pollack, Peter Schuster, Ricard V. Solé, Tamás Vicsek, Stephen Wolfram

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Philosophy of PHYSICS: 5 questions

edited by
Juan Ferret
John Symons

FORTHCOMIMG
December 2009
ISBN 879213002X

 

Interviews with Jeremy Butterfield,Craig Callender, Joy Christian, Dennis Dieks, Arthur Fine, Steven French, John Earman, Nick Huggett, Chris Isham, Tim Maudlin, John D. Norton, Roland Omnès, Carlo Rovelli, Simon Saunders, Lawrence Sklar, Paul Teller, Roberto Torretti, Bill Unruh, Bas van Fraassen, Andrew Wayne, Steve Weinstein, Edward Witten

Read snippets at www.foundationsofphysics.com

         
         
mind and conciousness: 5 Questions

edited by
Patrick Grim

January 2009
ISBN 8792130100
236 pages

 

Lynne Rudder Baker, David Chalmers, Daniel Dennett, Fred Dretske, Owen Flanagan, Samuel Guttenplan, Valerie Gray Hardcastle, John Heil, Terence Horgan, Douglas Hofstadter, Frank Jackson, Jaegwon Kim, William Lycan, Alva Noë, Hilary Putnam, David Rosenthal, John Searle, Steven Stich, Galen Strawson, Michael Tye

Review in Metapsychology, January 2010

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PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS: 5 Questions

edited by
Alan Hájek
Vincent F. Hendricks

September 2009
ISBN 8792130054
Pages 216

Interviews with Nick Bingham, Luc Bovens, Philip Dawid, Terrence Fine, David Freedman, Haim Gaifman, Donald Gillies, Jim Hawthorne, Carl Hoefer, Jim Joyce, Joseph B. Kadane, Isaac Levi, Patrick Maher, Hugh Mellor, Mark J. Schervish, Teddy Seidenfeld, Brian Skyrms, Jan von Plato, Carl Wagner, Sandy Zabell

 

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Philosophy of action: 5 Questions

edited by
Jesús H. Aguilar
Andre A. Buckareff

February 2009
ISBN 8792130089
316 pages

Interview with John Bishop, Michael E. Bratman, Randy Clarke, John Martin Fischer, Stewart Goetz, Patricia Greenspan, Ishtiyaque Haji, Bennett Helm, Ted Honderich, Jennifer Hornsby, Joshua Knobe, Storrs McCall, Hugh J. McCann, Michael McKenna, Alfred R. Mele, Timothy O'Connor, Derk Pereboom, Thomas Pink, Joëlle Proust, Abraham Roth, Galen Strawson, Raimo Tuomela, Manuel Vargas, George Wilson

Review in Metapsychology, 2010

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SIGNS AND MEANING: 5 Questions

edited by
Peer Bundgaard
Frederik Stjernfelt

September 2009
ISBN 8792130119
332 pages
 

Marcel Danesi, John Deely, Gilles Fauconnier,
Jesper Hoffmeyer, Pat Hogan, Robert Innis, Jørgen Dines Johansen, Mark Johnson, Kalevi Kull, Jean Petitot, Roland Posner, Francois Rastier, Eleanor Rosch, Lucia Santaella, John Searle, Tom Short, Barry Smith, Göran Sonesson, John Sowa, Eero Tarasti, Len Talmy, Mark Turner, Wolfgang Wildgen

 

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EVOLUTIONARY THEORY: 5 QUESTIONS

edited by
Gry Oftedal
Jan Kyrre Berg O. Friis
Peter Rossel
Michael Slott Norup
 

November 2009
ISBN8 792130267

Patrick Bateson, John Tyler Bonner, Terrence W. Deacon, Daniel C. Dennett, Douglas J. Futuyma, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Brian Goodwin, David L. Hull, Eva Jablonka, Philip Kitcher, U. Kutschera, Richard Levins, Elisabeth A. Lloyd, Stuart A. Newman, Samir Okasha, Susan Oyama, David C. Queller, Michael Ruse, Geerat J. Vermeij, Andreas Wagner, David Sloan Wilson

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randomness: 5 questions

edited by
Hector Zenil

FORTHCOMIMG
January 2010
ISBN 8792130259

 

 
         
         
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE: 5 QUESTIONS

edited by
Robert Rosenberger

FORTHCOMIMG
January 2010
ISBN 8792130224

Harry M. Collins, John Dupré, Arthur Fine, Allan Franklin, Peter Galison, Ronald N. Giere, Adolf Grünbaum, Sandra Harding, Don Ihde, Sheila Jasanoff, Evelyn Fox Keller, Philip Kitcher, Helen Longino, David Papineau, Stathis Psillos, Joseph Rouse, Patrick Suppes, Nancy Tuana
         
         
Philosophy of Medicine: 5 Questions

edited by
Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen, Peter Rossel
Michael Slott Norup
Stig Andur Pedersen

FORTHCOMIMG
February 2010
ISBN 8792130143

Interviews with Vilhjalmur Arnason, Ron Bayer, Tom Beauchamp, Dan Callahan, Art Caplan, Ruth Chadwick, Norman Daniels, K.W.M. Fulford, John Harris, Henk ten Have, Søren Holm, Ingvar Johansson, Niels Lynøe, Ruth Macklin, Lennart Nordenfeldt, Onora O’Neill, Stig Andur Pedersen, Peter Rossel, Kenneth F. Schaffner
         
         
Sustainability ethics: 5 Questions

edited by
Ryne Raffaelle
Wade Robison
Evan Selinger

FORTHCOMIMG
February 2009
ISBN 8792130143

 

Interviews with Braden Allenby, Richard Bawden, Donald A. Brown, John Baird Callicott, Randall Curren, Aidan Davison, Michael Gormann, Benjamin Hale, Dale Jamieson, Judith Layzer, Steven Moore, John Nolt, Bryan Norton, David Orr, Donald William Scherer, Chris Schlottmann, William Shutkin, Behnam Taebi, Paul Thompson, Michael Zimmerman  
         
         
EPISTEMIC LOGIC: 5 Questions

edited by
Vincent F. Hendricks
Olivier Roy

FORTHCOMIMG
August 2010
ISBN 8792130240
 

Horacio Arlo-Costa, Sergei Artemov , Robert Aumann, Alexandru Baltag, Giacomo Bonanno, Adam Brandenburger, Johan van Benthem, Hans van Ditmarsch, Ronald Fagin, Melvin Fitting, Paul Gochet, Joseph Halpern, Sven Ove Hansson, Amid Heifetz, Jaakko Hintikka, Kevin T. Kelly, Wolfgang Lenzen, Wiebe van der Hoek, John-Jules Meyer, Lawrence S. Moss, Rohit Parikh, Hans Rott, Dov Samet, Krister Segerberg, Yoav Shoham, John Sowa, Timothy Williamson
         
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VINCENT VENDER VIRKELIGHEDEN

Vincent F. Hendricks

January 2009
ISBN 978-87-92130-21-1

Filosofien er i virkeligheden i den grad som virkeligheden er i filosofien. Til tider kan det dog være svært nok at se skoven for bare træer. Her er 30,1 klummer med filosofi på tværs, hvor Vincent F. Hendricks tager et tema op fra hverdagen og, både indsigtsfuldt og underholdende, endevender det fra en logisk og filosofisk vinkel.

Nogle af klummerne er kendt fra dk4s tv-serie af samme navn.

"Grubleglæde. Det må være filosofiens sidestykke til spilleglæde eller fortælleglæde. Klummerne i Vincent vender virkeligheden er sprængfyldt med grubleglæde. Og så er bogen og filosofien i den netop helt ude og tage livtag med virkeligheden og dagligdagen - fra krigen i Irak over Obama i USA til Khader i Danmark. Befriende. Men også cool, drilsk og flabet på den rigtige måde. Filosofi, der kvikker og gør klog. Tankevækkende!"
- Anders Rou Jensen, journalist og forfatter
 

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THOUGHT2TALK


Vincent F. Hendricks

June 2007
ISBN 8799101378

 

Thought2Talk is a crash course on argument, reasoning and logical method honoring the Swedish poet and Bishop of Lund, Esaias Tegnér, who once said: "The words and thoughts of men are born together: To speak obscurely is to think obscurely." In 100 humorous yet erudite pages, Thought2Talk takes the reader through key concepts like statement, argument, validity, fallacy, modality and demonstration.
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EMBODYING TECHNOSCIENCE


Evan Selinger

December 2008
ISBN 8792130038

 

Embodying Technoscience is a critical examination of the problem of reductivism. Emphasizing the issue of embodiment, phenomenologists have long argued that scientific analysis and practices of technological innovation routinely are predicated upon characterizing fundamental dimensions of humanity in unduly simplistic and often false terms. Turing to debates about artificial intelligence, computational simulation, and human nature in which the problem of reductivism is a central point of dispute, Selinger demonstrates how, ironically, some of the very best attempts to avoid reductivism end up distorting how embodiment is experienced and can be studied.
         
         
IRONIC TECHNICS


Don Ihde

October 2008
ISBN 8792130186
 

 

Even before we humans became modern as homo sapiens sapiens we were busy inventing technologies.  But our technologies also invent us as humans. And as we reflect upon this process, too often our interpretations have taken utopian or dystopian directions: our technologies will make life infinitely better and lead us into utopian realms, or our technologies will condemn us to alienation or even destroy our humanity itself.  This set of essays, however, looks at the ironic dimensions of human-technology relations, at unpredicted, unexpected, surprizing outcomes.   Are we today in a ‘knowledge society’?  And, if so, are we wiser?   Can we ‘design’ intended uses into our technologies? Or, do they always surprise us with the unexpected?  Can we ‘technologize’ our very bodies”? Become ever more Cyborgean?  And have we or could we become ‘posthuman’?   Here, drawing from a rich history of technologies, Ironic Technics takes a critical look at these contemporary, but also ancient questions.?”

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EMBODIED TECHNICS

Don Ihde

January 2010
ISBN 8792130275

 

 

While some people think that our new technologies which texture our lifeworld disembody human experience, and while others think that eventually we will be able to ‘upload’ our very embodiment into these technologies, this collection of chapters takes a close postphenomenological account of a myriad of these technologies as we interface with them.   Beginning with cinema and the “Matrix Trilogy”, then on to both ancient and new musical instrumenta-lities, romping with robots, venturing into radical imaging technologies which depict phenomena beyond human sensory capacity, and working with both information technologies and a deep history of writing technologies, Don Ihde brings his skills at doing variations to explore the role of human embodiment with technics. He argues that the new technologies both extend and transform our experience of embodiment. And the multistable trajectories of these new technics present possibilities often not yet explored.  

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philosophical probings: eSSAYS ON VON WRIGHT'S LATER WORK


Edited by
Frederick Stoutland

January 2009
ISBN 8792130208

 

This book gives an illuminating account of significant features of von Wright’s later work while showing philosophers wrestling on their own with philosophical issues central to his investigations. The six essays in part I are penetrating discussions of his changing views of norms, his claims about the varieties of goodness, his account of action, and his standpoint on the nature of future contingents. Part II contains von Wright’s “Logic and Philosophy in the Twentieth Century” with commentary from diverse points of view by seven distinguished philosopher-logicians, who offer a rich feast of reflection on the role logic might play in philosophy in the 21st century.
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