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Empiricism without Magic: Transformational Abstraction in Deep Convolutional Neural Networks [PDF]
Synthese, 2018 In artificial intelligence, recent research has demonstrated the remarkable potential of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs), which seem to exceed state-of-the-art performance in new domains weekly, especially on the sorts of very difficult ...
Buckner, Cameron
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Neither Logical Empiricism nor Vitalism, but Organicism: What the Philosophy of Biology Was [PDF]
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 2015 Philosophy of biology is often said to have emerged in the last third of the twentieth century. Prior to this time, it has been alleged that the only authors who engaged philosophically with the life sciences were either logical empiricists who sought to
Gawne, Richard, Nicholson, Daniel J.
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On Knowing and Seeing: Groundwork for a New Empiricism
Grazer Philosophische Studien, 2021 This is a discussion note on Michael Ayers’ Knowing and Seeing. Groundwork for a New Empiricism.
Mira Magdalena Sickinger
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Radical empiricism and machine learning research
Journal of Causal Inference, 2021 I contrast the “data fitting” vs “data interpreting” approaches to data science along three dimensions: Expediency, Transparency, and Explainability. “Data fitting” is driven by the faith that the secret to rational decisions lies in the data itself.
J. Pearl
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Making Black Women Scientists under White Empiricism: The Racialization of Epistemology in Physics
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 2020 In this article I take on the question of how the exclusion of Black American women from physics impacts physics epistemologies, and I highlight the dynamic relationship between this exclusion and the struggle for women to reconcile “Black woman” with ...
C. Prescod-Weinstein
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The Profiling Potential of Computer Vision and the Challenge of Computational Empiricism [PDF]
FAT, 2019 Computer vision and other biometrics data science applications have commenced a new project of profiling people. Rather than using 'transaction generated information', these systems measure the 'real world' and produce an assessment of the 'world state' -
Jake Goldenfein
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Critical Inquiry, 2020 The article focuses on coronavirus disease caused by bacterium Yersinia pestis which had killed people in Europe and mentions state of ground-zero empiricism Topics discussed include death of people who have been tested positive for the Covid-19 ...
L. Daston
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Sulla genesi impersonale dell’esperienza
Philosophy Kitchen, 2016 Unlike classical empiricism, radical or transcendental empiricism poses, as the genetic basis of experience, a strictly impersonal plane. The “pure experience”, which lays at the heart of experience as a subject-object relation, is a transcendental ...
Rocco Ronchi
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Conventionalism and the Impoverishment of the Space of Reasons: Carnap, Quine and Sellars
Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy, 2015 This article examines how Quine and Sellars develop informatively contrasting responses to a fundamental tension in Carnap’s semantics ca. 1950. Quine’s philosophy could well be styled ‘Essays in Radical Empiricism’; his assay of radical empiricism is ...
Kenneth R Westphal
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Od Bacona do Hume’a – istota i odcienie empiryzmu w nowożytnej Anglii
Filozofia Publiczna i Edukacja Demokratyczna, 2012 The aim of the article is to give a brief overview of English empiricism, particularly in modern philosophy. The paper will firstly examine the pre-enlightenment thought of F. Bacon, upon which it will discuss the empiricism of J. Locke, G.
Bolesław Andrzejewski
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