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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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The Scientific Approach to Risk and the Risk Concept of Science [PDF]
Sociální Pedagogika, 2015 The paper “The Scientific Approach to Risk and the Risk Concept of Science” attempts to analyze the relationship between two problematic concepts of empiricism in present-day science (primitive empiricism, brutal empiricism), two characteristics of ...
Bohuslav
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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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Identifikasi Kecukupan Tata Kelola Sampah Di Kawasan Malioboro
Asas wa Tandhim, 2022 This study investigates the need for sustainable waste management in the Malioboro area of Yogyakarta city. Because the accuracy of perspective, approach, program choice, and technical implementation as well as support capacity in the field that has not ...
Yosef Satrianus Budiman +2 more
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What’s Wrong with Aim-Oriented Empiricism? [PDF]
Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum, 2015 For four decades it has been argued that we need to adopt a new conception of science called aim-oriented empiricism. This has far-reaching implications and repercussions for science, the philosophy of science, academic inquiry in general, the ...
Nicholas Maxwell
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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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Intentionality versus Constructive Empiricism [PDF]
, 2011 By focussing on the intentional character of observation in science, we argue that Constructive Empiricism – B.C. van Fraassen’s much debated and explored view of science – is inconsistent.
Buekens, F.A.I. +5 more
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Radical empiricism, empirical modelling and the nature of knowing [PDF]
, 2005 This paper explores connections between Radical Empiricism (RE), a philosophic attitude developed by William James at the beginning of the 20th century, and Empirical Modelling (EM), an approach to computer- based modelling that has been developed by the
Beynon, Meurig
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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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