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8Hume's Sceptical Doubts concerning InductionIn Reading Hume on Human Understanding: Essays on the First Enquiry, Oxford University Press. 2001.
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8Machines and Thought: The Legacy of Alan Turing, Volume 1 (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 1996.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 m…Read more
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7Machines and Thought: The Legacy of Alan Turing, Volume I (edited book)Clarendon Press. 1996.This is the first of two volumes of essays on the intellectual legacy of Alan Turing, whose pioneering work in artificial intelligence and computer science made him one of the seminal thinkers of the century. A distinguished international cast of contributors focus on the three famous ideas associated with his name: the Turing test, the Turing machine, and the Church-Turing thesis. 'a fascinating series of essays on computation by contributors in many fields' Choice
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4Hume's 'scepticism'about inductionIn Alan Bailey & Dan O'Brien (eds.), The Continuum Companion to Hume, Continuum. 2012.
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2Connectionism, Concepts, and Folk Psychology: The Legacy of Alan Turing, Volume 2 (edited book)Clarendon Press. 1996.This is the second of two volumes of essays in commemoration of Alan Turing, who pioneered computing theory in the middle of this century. A distinguished international cast of contributors offer original investigations of key theories in contemporary philosophy of mind and cognitive science, celebrating Turing's intellectual legacy in these fields. All essays are specially written for this volume.
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1Since all inductive inference is equally The main aim of the two definitions of Since all inductive inference is equally The main aim of the two definitions of irrational, there is no consistent basis for irrational, there is no consistent basis for causation is to clarify the meaning of the causation is to clarify the meaning of the drawing any demarcation between drawing any demarcation between concept of concept of “ “necessity necessity” ”, in accordance with , in accordance with scientific …Read more
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Hume on modalityIn Otávio Bueno & Scott A. Shalkowski (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Modality, Routledge. 2018.
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Hume’s Chief ArgumentIn Lorne Falkenstein (ed.), Hume and the Contemporary 'Common Sense' Critique of Hume, Oxford University Press. 2016.The common tendency to characterize Hume’s philosophy as simply “skeptical,” “naturalist,” “empiricist,” or “irreligious” is a mistake. Rather, his philosophy is best seen as responding to a number of specific issues that captured his attention in the 1730s, mostly involving causation and thus explaining his particular enthusiasm for applying the Copy Principle to that idea. Other enthusiasms that shaped Book 1 of the Treatise later faded, but the “Chief Argument” around causation—and causal/ind…Read more
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The Legacy of Alan Turing, Volumes 1 and 2. Volume 1: Machines and ThoughtMind 108 (429): 187-195. 1999.
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Content, Thoughts, and Definite DescriptionsAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 64 167-220. 1990.
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Reading Hume on Human Understanding: Essays on the First EnquiryPhilosophical Quarterly 54 (214): 180-183. 2004.
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Connectionism, Concepts, and Folk Psychology: The Legacy of Alan Turing, Volume Ii (edited book)Clarendon Press. 1999.This is the second of two volumes of essays on the ideas of Alan Turing, whose pioneering work in artificial intelligence and computer science made him one of the seminal thinkers of the century. A distinguished international cast of contributors offer original investigations of key issues in contemporary philosophy of mind and cognitive science, celebrating Turing's intellectual legacy in these fields. 'fascinating...we can all learn by reading these essays because they encourage us to explore …Read more