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Why there is no symbol grounding problem?In Robert Cummins (ed.), Representations, Targets, and Attitudes, Mit Press. 1996.
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144Philosophy and AI: Essays at the Interface (edited book)MIT Press. 1991.Philosophy and AI presents invited contributions that focus on the different perspectives and techniques that philosophy and AI bring to the theory of...
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393"How does it work" versus "what are the laws?": Two conceptions of psychological explanationIn Robert A. Wilson & Frank C. Keil (eds.), The Shadows and Shallows of Explanation, Mit Press. 2000.In the beginning, there was the DN (Deductive Nomological) model of explanation, articulated by Hempel and Oppenheim (1948). According to DN, scientific explanation is subsumption under natural law. Individual events are explained by deducing them from laws together with initial conditions (or boundary conditions), and laws are explained by deriving them from other more fundamental laws, as, for example, the simple pendulum law is derived from Newton's laws of motion.
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223Representations, Targets, and AttitudesMIT Press. 1996."This is an important new Cummins work.
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Areas of Specialization
| Philosophy of Mind |
| Philosophy of Biology |
| Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
| 17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
| Philosophy of Mind |
| Philosophy of Biology |
| Philosophy of Cognitive Science |