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75Technologically scaffolded atypical cognition: the case of YouTube’s recommender systemSynthese 199 (1): 835-858. 2020.YouTube has been implicated in the transformation of users into extremists and conspiracy theorists. The alleged mechanism for this radicalizing process is YouTube’s recommender system, which is optimized to amplify and promote clips that users are likely to watch through to the end. YouTube optimizes for watch-through for economic reasons: people who watch a video through to the end are likely to then watch the next recommended video as well, which means that more advertisements can be served t…Read more
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970Extended Cognition and Propositional MemoryPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 92 (3): 691-714. 2015.The philosophical case for extended cognition is often made with reference to ‘extended-memory cases’ ; though, unfortunately, proponents of the hypothesis of extended cognition as well as their adversaries have failed to appreciate the kinds of epistemological problems extended-memory cases pose for mainstream thinking in the epistemology of memory. It is time to give these problems a closer look. Our plan is as follows: in §1, we argue that an epistemological theory remains compatible with HEC…Read more
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527Trust and TrustworthinessPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research (2): 377-394. 2022.A widespread assumption in debates about trust and trustworthiness is that the evaluative norms of principal interest on the trustor’s side of a cooperative exchange regulate trusting attitudes and performances whereas those on the trustee’s side regulate dispositions to respond to trust. The aim here will be to highlight some unnoticed problems with this asymmetrical picture – and in particular, how it elides certain key evaluative norms on both the trustor’s and trustee’s side the satisfaction…Read more
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68Simion and Kelp on trustworthy AIAsian Journal of Philosophy 2 (1): 1-8. 2023.AbstractSimion and Kelp offer a prima facie very promising account of trustworthy AI. One benefit of the account is that it elegantly explains trustworthiness in the case of cancer diagnostic AIs, which involve the acquisition by the AI of a representational etiological function. In this brief note, I offer some reasons to think that their account cannot be extended — at least not straightforwardly — beyond such cases (i.e., to cases of AIs with non-representational etiological functions) withou…Read more
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72A Telic Theory of TrustOxford University Press. 2024.A Telic Theory of Trust approaches trust as a kind of aimed performance, capable of not only success but also of competence and aptness. J. Adam Carter shows how this illuminate the nature of trust, the difference between good and bad trusting, and practices of cooperation in general.
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1Opinion | Who's Afraid of Genetic Engineering?The New York Times. 1998.Jimmy Carter Op-Ed article scores new import proposals being drafted under auspices of 1992 biodiversity treaty that would place import restrictions on all genetically engineered products in developing and industrialized countries by early as 1999; accuses antibiodiversity team of exceeding its mandate and of spreading misleading information that all genetically modified organisms are threats to public health and environment while ignoring benefits; says if imports of genetically modified produc…Read more
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21Socially Extended Epistemology (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2018.This volume explores the epistemology of distributed cognition, the idea that groups of people can generate cognitive systems that consist of all participating members. Can distributed cognitive systems generate knowledge in a similar way to individuals? If so, how does this kind of knowledge differ from normal, individual knowledge?
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48Introduction to Special Issue: Scepticism and Epistemic AngstSynthese 198 (15): 3517-3519. 2021.No abstract available.
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7The Moral Psychology of Pride (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield International. 2017.This book demonstrates pride's unique profile in philosophical theory as both an emotion and an element of human virtue, and includes a range of represented perspectives: psychology; philosophy; sociology; and anthropology.
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54Bi-Level Virtue Epistemology: A DefenceCambridge University Press. forthcoming.No abstract available.
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7_Talking Books_ sets out to show how some of the leading children's authors of the day respond to these and other similar questions. The authors featured are _ Neil Ardley, Ian Beck, Helen Cresswell, Gillian Cross, Terry Deary, Berlie Doherty, Alan Durant, Brian Moses, Philip Pullman, Celia Rees, Norman Silver, Jacqueline Wilson, and Benjamin Zephaniah_. They discuss with great enthusiasm: *their childhood reading habits *how they came to be published *how they write on a daily basis *how a part…Read more