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Author : Kevin T. Kelly
Release : 1987
Genre : Convergence
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Book Synopsis Convergence to the Truth and Nothing But the Truth by : Kevin T. Kelly
Download or read book Convergence to the Truth and Nothing But the Truth written by Kevin T. Kelly. This book was released on 1987. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vincent F. Hendricks
Release : 2013-03-09
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis The Convergence of Scientific Knowledge by : Vincent F. Hendricks
Download or read book The Convergence of Scientific Knowledge written by Vincent F. Hendricks. This book was released on 2013-03-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is this, this ain't something else, this is this -Robert De Niro, Deerhunter his book may to some extent be viewed as the continuation of my T Doctoral thesis Epistemology, Methodology and Reliability. The dissertation was, first of all, a methodological study of the reliable performance of the AGM-axioms (Alchourr6n, Gardenfors and Makin son) of belief revision. Second of all the dissertation included the first steps toward an epistemology for the limiting convergence of knowledge for scientific inquiry methods of both discovery and assessment. The idea of methodological reliability as a desirable property of a scientific method was introduced to me while I was a visiting Ph. D. -student at the Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University in Pitts burgh, Pennsylvania, USA in 1995-96. Here I became acquainted with formal learning theory. Learning theory provides a variety of formal tools for investigating a number of important issues within epistemology, methodology and the philosophy of science. Especially with respect to the problem of induc tion, but not exclusively. The Convergence of Scientific Knowledge-a view from the limit utilizes a few concepts from formal learning theory to study problems in modal logic and epistemology. It should be duely noted that this book has virtually nothing to do with formal learning theory or inductive learning problems.
Author : P. J. R. Millican
Release : 1996-11-28
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Machines and Thought by : P. J. R. Millican
Download or read book Machines and Thought written by P. J. R. Millican. This book was released on 1996-11-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first of two volumes of essays in commemoration of Alan Turing, whose pioneering work in the theory of artificial intelligence and computer science continues to be widely discussed today. A distinguished international cast of contributors focus on the three seminal ideas associated with his name: the Turing test, the Turing machine, and the Church-Turing thesis.
Author : Peter Millican
Release : 1996-11-28
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Machines and Thought by : Peter Millican
Download or read book Machines and Thought written by Peter Millican. This book was released on 1996-11-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first of two volumes of essays in commemoration of Alan Turing, whose pioneering work in the theory of artificial intelligence and computer science continues to be widely discussed today. A group of prominent academics from a wide range of disciplines focus on three questions famously raised by Turing: What, if any, are the limits on machine 'thinking'? Could a machine be genuinely intelligent? Might we ourselves be biological machines, whose thought consists essentially in nothing more than the interaction of neurons according to strictly determined rules? The discussion of these fascinating issues is accessible to non-specialists and stimulating for all readers. Also available in paperback is the companion volume: Connectionism, Concepts, and Folk Psychology, edited by Andy Clark and Peter Millican. While Volume 1 concentrates on Turing's main innovations in artificial intelligence, Volume 2 looks more broadly at his intellectual legacy in philosophy and cognitive science.
Author : Kevin T. Kelly
Release : 1996-01-04
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis The Logic of Reliable Inquiry by : Kevin T. Kelly
Download or read book The Logic of Reliable Inquiry written by Kevin T. Kelly. This book was released on 1996-01-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many proposed aims for scientific inquiry--to explain or predict events, to confirm or falsify hypotheses, or to find hypotheses that cohere with our other beliefs in some logical or probabilistic sense. This book is devoted to a different proposal--that the logical structure of the scientist's method should guarantee eventual arrival at the truth given the scientist's background assumptions. Interest in this methodological property, called "logical reliability," stems from formal learning theory, which draws its insights not from the theory of probability, but from the theory of computability. Kelly first offers an accessible explanation of formal learning theory, then goes on to develop and explore a systematic framework in which various standard learning theoretic results can be seen as special cases of simpler and more general considerations. This approach answers such important questions as whether there are computable methods more reliable than Bayesian updating or Popper's method of conjectures and refutations. Finally, Kelly clarifies the relationship between the resulting framework and other standard issues in the philosophy of science, such as probability, causation, and relativism. His work is a major contribution to the literature and will be essential reading for scientists, logicians, and philosophers
