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258Social Ontology: Time to ComputeVestnik Tomskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta. Filosofiya, Sotsiologiya, Politologiya 1 (55): 36-46. 2020.Discussions on the alleged methodological specificity of social knowledge are fueled to not the least extent by a kind of retarded position of the latter against technological advancements of natural and information science based on exact methods and formal or quantitative languages. It is more or less obvious that applicability of exact scientific methods to social disciplines is highly dependent on a chosen conception of social reality, i. e., on social ontology. In the article, the author cri…Read more
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408INFERENCE AND REPRESENTATION: PHILOSOPHICAL AND COGNITIVE ISSUESVestnik Tomskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta. Filosofiya, Sotsiologiya, Politologiya 1 (58): 34-46. 2020.The paper is dedicated to particular cases of interaction and mutual impact of philosophy and cognitive science. Thus, philosophical preconditions in the middle of the 20th century shaped the newly born cognitive science as mainly based on conceptual and propositional representations and syntactical inference. Further developments towards neural networks and statistical representations did not change the prejudice much: many still believe that network models must be complemented with some extra …Read more
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160COMPUTATIONAL TREATMENT FOR LIFE SCIENCEVestnik Tomskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta. Filosofiya, Sotsiologiya, Politologiya 1 (61): 38-46. 2021.According to some critics, if biology is a kind of reverse engineering for the nature, it is quite poorly prepared for the task. Thus, the issue is more likely with its ontology. Multiple hypotheses and conjectures found in papers on methodological issues claim that living systems should be viewed as complex networks of signal-transmitting paths, both neural and non-neural, that feature modularity and feedback circuits and are prone to emergent properties and increasing complexity. If so, we are…Read more
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8Computational Knowledge Representation in Cognitive ScienceEpistemology and Philosophy of Science 56 (3): 138-152. 2019.Cognitive research can contribute to the formal epistemological study of knowledge representation inasmuch as, firstly, it may be regarded as a descriptive science of the very same subject as that, of which formal epistemology is a normative one. And, secondly, the notion of representation plays a constitutive role in both disciplines, though differing therein in shades of its meaning. Representation, in my view, makes sense only being paired with computation. A process may be viewed as computat…Read more
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15Perception, Logic and Plurality of Rational Representations of the WorldRussian Journal of Philosophical Sciences 62 (7): 37-53. 2019.The article covers such issues as the relevance of the theory of perception as a multi-level information processing, the methodological role of the concept of representation and the relation of neurodynamic structures to subjective experience. The author critically reviews the philosophical presumptions underlying the various concepts of “local rationality,” the core of which is constituted by the belief that large ethnic cultures generate or are based on their own rationality and their own logi…Read more
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9Philosophical Problems of Multi-Agent Systems ModelingRussian Journal of Philosophical Sciences 12 56-74. 2019.
Igor Mikhailov
Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
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Russian Academy of National Economy and Public AdministrationSenior Lecturer (Part-time)
Russian Federation
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