I am a lecturer at the University of Southampton.
I research the nature, scope and epistemic role of perception - both natural and artificial.
I explore the role perception plays in securing knowledge of others' minds.
I provide a primarily epistemological distinction between perceptual and inferential knowledge, which revolves around the nature of warrant-conferring inductive inference.
Recently I have extended this research into the domain of machine learning - in particular artificial neural networks. I aim to understand the sense in which these systems are supposed to be opaque or uninterpretable. The puzzle stems from the fact that…
I am a lecturer at the University of Southampton.
I research the nature, scope and epistemic role of perception - both natural and artificial.
I explore the role perception plays in securing knowledge of others' minds.
I provide a primarily epistemological distinction between perceptual and inferential knowledge, which revolves around the nature of warrant-conferring inductive inference.
Recently I have extended this research into the domain of machine learning - in particular artificial neural networks. I aim to understand the sense in which these systems are supposed to be opaque or uninterpretable. The puzzle stems from the fact that we have complete knowledge of each system's structure, training data and training history. Yet designers of such systems claim that their workings are in some sense inexplicable.