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954The Curious Case of Uncurious CreationInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.This paper seeks to answer the question: Can contemporary forms of artificial intelligence be creative? To answer this question, I consider three conditions that are commonly taken to be necessary for creativity. These are novelty, value, and agency. I argue that while contemporary AI models may have a claim to novelty and value, they cannot satisfy the kind of agency condition required for creativity. From this discussion, a new condition for creativity emerges. Creativity requires curiosity, a…Read more
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107How to Explain How-PossiblyPhilosophers' Imprint 20 (13): 1-23. 2020.Explaining how something is possible is a familiar and epistemically important achievement in both science and ordinary life. But a satisfactory general account of how-possibly explanation has not yet been given. A crucial desideratum for a successful account is that it must differentiate a demonstration that something is possible from an explanation of how it is possible. In this paper, I offer an account of how-possibly explanation that fully captures this distinction. I motivate my account us…Read more
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
PhD, 2017
APA Central Division
Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America