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Philosophy Through Computer ScienceRoutledge. 2023.What do philosophy and computer science have in common? It turns out, quite a lot! In providing an introduction to computer science (using Python), Daniel Lim presents in this book key philosophical issues, ranging from external world skepticism to the existence of God to the problem of induction. These issues, and others, are introduced through the use of critical computational concepts, ranging from image manipulation to recursive programming to elementary machine learning techniques. In illum…Read more
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Bayesian coherentismSynthese 198 (10): 9563-9590. 2020.This paper considers a problem for Bayesian epistemology and proposes a solution to it. On the traditional Bayesian framework, an agent updates her beliefs by Bayesian conditioning, a rule that tells her how to revise her beliefs whenever she gets evidence that she holds with certainty. In order to extend the framework to a wider range of cases, Jeffrey (1965) proposed a more liberal version of this rule that has Bayesian conditioning as a special case. Jeffrey conditioning is a rule that tells …Read more
University Of Missouri
Department Of Philosophy
Alumnus
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Science, Logic, and Mathematics |
Philosophy of Medicine |
Areas of Interest
Formal Epistemology |
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |
Philosophy of Religion |
PhilPapers Editorships
Coherentism |
Coherentism, Misc |
Epistemology of Specific Domains |