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“steve petersen”

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  • Dennett's Real Patterns in Science and Nature

    Edited by Tyler Millhouse, Don Ross, Steve Petersen ...
    How the concept of a pattern, as understood in information science and applied in contemporary AI, can address deep questions in science and philosophy.The explosive growth of AI and machine learning in recent decades is predicated on the recognition and exploitation of patterns in data. Of course, scientists have engaged in their own—less automated—processes of pattern recognition since the birth ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Probably Approximately Correct

    Nature's Algorithms for Learning and Prospering in a Complex World

    by Leslie Valiant ...
    From a leading computer scientist, a unifying theory that will revolutionize our understanding of how life evolves and learns.How does life prosper in a complex and erratic world? While we know that nature follows patterns -- such as the law of gravity -- our everyday lives are beyond what known science can predict. We nevertheless muddle through even in the absence of theories of how to act. But ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • How Physics Makes Us Free

    by J. T. Ismael ...
    In 1687 Isaac Newton ushered in a new scientific era in which laws of nature could be used to predict the movements of matter with almost perfect precision. Newton's physics also posed a profound challenge to our self-understanding, however, for the very same laws that keep airplanes in the air and rivers flowing downhill tell us that it is in principle possible to predict what each of us will do ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Matter and Consciousness, third edition

    by Paul M. Churchland ...
    An updated edition of an authoritative text showing the relevance for philosophy of mind of theoretical and experimental results in the natural sciences.In Matter and Consciousness, Paul Churchland presents a concise and contemporary overview of the philosophical issues surrounding the mind and explains the main theories and philosophical positions that have been proposed to solve them. Making the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Making Things Happen

    A Theory of Causal Explanation

    by James Woodward ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science
    In Making Things Happen, James Woodward develops a new and ambitious comprehensive theory of causation and explanation that draws on literature from a variety of disciplines and which applies to a wide variety of claims in science and everyday life. His theory is a manipulationist account, proposing that causal and explanatory relationships are relationships that are potentially exploitable for ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Science

    Edited by Paul Humphreys ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This handbook provides both an overview of state-of-the-art scholarship in philosophy of science, as well as a guide to new directions in the discipline. Section I contains broad overviews of the main lines of research and the state of established knowledge in six principal areas of the discipline, including computational, physical, biological, psychological and social sciences, as well as general ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Plato's Camera

    How the Physical Brain Captures a Landscape of Abstract Universals

    by Paul M. Churchland ...
    A noted philosopher draws on the empirical results and conceptual resources of cognitive neuroscience to address questions about the nature of knowledge.In Plato's Camera, eminent philosopher Paul Churchland offers a novel account of how the brain constructs a representation—or "takes a picture"—of the universe's timeless categorical and dynamical structure. This construction process, which begins ... Read more

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  • Emergence

    by Paul Humphreys ...
    Interest in emergence amongst philosophers and scientists has grown in recent years, yet the concept continues to be viewed with skepticism by many. In this book, Paul Humphreys argues that many of the problems arise from a long philosophical tradition that is overly committed to synchronic reduction and has been overly focused on problems in philosophy of mind. He develops a novel account of ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Understanding Perspectivism

    Scientific Challenges and Methodological Prospects

    Edited by Michela Massimi, Casey D. McCoy ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
    This edited collection is the first of its kind to explore the view called perspectivism in philosophy of science. The book brings together an array of essays that reflect on the methodological promises and scientific challenges of perspectivism in a variety of fields such as physics, biology, cognitive neuroscience, and cancer research, just as a few examples. What are the advantages of using a ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Scientific Modeling

    Edited by Tarja Knuuttila, Natalia Carrillo, Rami Koskinen ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
    Models and modeling have played an increasingly important role in philosophy, going back to the nineteenth century. While philosophical interest in models has been remarkably lively over the last two decades, there are still many underexplored questions. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Scientific Modeling is an outstanding reference source and guide to this fast-growing area and is the ... Read more

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  • A Drive to Survive

    The Free Energy Principle and the Meaning of Life

    by Kathryn Nave ...
    How the purposive behavior of living systems outstrips the constraints of the free energy principle.Since 2005, Karl Friston’s proposal that the principle of free energy minimization underpins the purposive behavior of living agents has evolved through thousands of publications. This principle’s central move is to formalize the drive for self-preservation in terms of a single probabilistic ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • The New Mechanical Philosophy

    by Stuart Glennan ...
    The New Mechanical Philosophy argues for a new image of nature and of science--one that understands both natural and social phenomena to be the product of mechanisms, and that casts the work of science as an effort to discover and understand those mechanisms. Drawing on an expanding literature on mechanisms in physical, life, and social sciences, Stuart Glennan offers an account of the nature of ... Read more

    $23.79 USD