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1From Probability to Consilience: How Explanatory Values Implement Bayesian ReasoningTrends in Cognitive Sciences 24 (12): 981-993. 2020.Recent work in cognitive science has uncovered a diversity of explanatory values, or dimensions along which we judge explanations as better or worse. We propose a Bayesian account of these values that clarifies their function and shows how they fit together to guide explanation-making. The resulting taxonomy shows that core values from psychology, statistics, and the philosophy of science emerge from a common mathematical framework and provide insight into why people adopt the explanations they …Read more
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21An Interview-Based Study of Pioneering Experiences in Teaching and Learning Complex Systems in Higher EducationComplexity 2018 (5): 1-11. 2008.
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3Private versus public: A dual model for resource-constrained conflict representationsBehavioral and Brain Sciences 45. 2022.Pietraszewski's representation scheme is parsimonious and intuitive. However, internal mental representations may be subject to resource constraints that prefer more unusual systems such as sparse coding or compressed sensing. Pietraszewski's scheme may be most useful for understanding how agents communicate. Conflict may be driven in part by the complex interplay between parsimonious public representations and more resource-efficient internal ones.
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15Learning Communicative Acts in Children's Conversations: A Hidden Topic Markov Model Analysis of the CHILDES CorporaTopics in Cognitive Science 14 (2): 388-399. 2022.Topics in Cognitive Science, Volume 14, Issue 2, Page 388-399, April 2022.
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473Exploration and exploitation of Victorian science in Darwin’s reading notebooksCognition 159 (C): 117-126. 2017.Search in an environment with an uncertain distribution of resources involves a trade-off between exploitation of past discoveries and further exploration. This extends to information foraging, where a knowledge-seeker shifts between reading in depth and studying new domains. To study this decision-making process, we examine the reading choices made by one of the most celebrated scientists of the modern era: Charles Darwin. From the full-text of books listed in his chronologically-organized read…Read more
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620Cora DiamondThe Harvard Review of Philosophy 8 (1): 69-81. 2000.An interview conducted at the University of Virginia in October 1999, covering Diamond's work on Wittgenstein, nonsense and riddles, moral realism and skepticism, Peter Singer and animal rights, and the role of literature in philosophy. Also collected in "Philosophers in Conversation: Interviews from the Harvard Review of Philosophy", S. Phineas Upham (Editor), Routledge (2002).
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Carnegie Mellon UniversityProfessor
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Indiana University, BloomingtonRegular Faculty
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Santa Fe InstituteExternal Faculty (Part-time)
Bellefield, Pennsylvania, United States of America