Search Results - "Synthese (Dordrecht)"

Radical embodiment in two directions by Baggs, Edward, Chemero, Anthony

“…Radical embodied cognitive science is split into two camps: the ecological approach and the enactive approach. We propose that these two approaches can be…”
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What makes interdisciplinarity difficult? Some consequences of domain specificity in interdisciplinary practice by MacLeod, Miles

“…Research on interdisciplinary science has for the most part concentrated on the institutional obstacles that discourage or hamper interdisciplinary work, with…”
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First principles in the life sciences: the free-energy principle, organicism, and mechanism by Colombo, Matteo, Wright, Cory

“…The free-energy principle states that all systems that minimize their free energy resist a tendency to physical disintegration. Originally proposed to account…”
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Reward tampering problems and solutions in reinforcement learning: a causal influence diagram perspective by Everitt, Tom, Hutter, Marcus, Kumar, Ramana, Krakovna, Victoria

“…Can humans get arbitrarily capable reinforcement learning (RL) agents to do their bidding? Or will sufficiently capable RL agents always find ways to bypass…”
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The feeling of grip: novelty, error dynamics, and the predictive brain by Kiverstein, Julian, Miller, Mark, Rietveld, Erik

“…According to the free energy principle biological agents resist a tendency to disorder in their interactions with a dynamically changing environment by keeping…”
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General ecological information supports engagement with affordances for 'higher' cognition by Bruineberg, Jelle, Chemero, Anthony, Rietveld, Erik

“…In this paper, we address the question of how an agent can guide its behavior with respect to aspects of the sociomaterial environment that are not sensorily…”
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Conceptual challenges for interpretable machine learning by Watson, David S.

“…As machine learning has gradually entered into ever more sectors of public and private life, there has been a growing demand for algorithmic explainability…”
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Pragmatism, enactivism, and ecological psychology: towards a unified approach to post-cognitivism by Heras-Escribano, Manuel

“…This paper argues that it is possible to combine enactivism and ecological psychology in a single post-cognitivist research framework if we highlight the…”
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Epistemic justice as a condition of political freedom? by Fricker, Miranda

“…I shall first briefly revisit the broad idea of 'epistemic injustice', explaining how it can take either distributive or discriminatory form, in order to put…”
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Quantum holism: nonseparability as common ground by Ismael, Jenann, Schaffer, Jonathan

“…Quantum mechanics seems to portray nature as nonseparable, in the sense that it allows spatiotemporally separated entities to have states that cannot be fully…”
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Conceptual engineering, truth, and efficacy by Nado, Jennifer

“…Traditional views on philosophical methodology characterize our primary philosophical goal as production of a successful conceptual analysis. The notion of…”
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When to adjust alpha during multiple testing: a consideration of disjunction, conjunction, and individual testing by Rubin, Mark

“…Scientists often adjust their significance threshold (alpha level) during null hypothesis significance testing in order to take into account multiple testing…”
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Autism, epistemic injustice, and epistemic disablement: a relational account of epistemic agency by Catala, Amandine, Faucher, Luc, Poirier, Pierre

“…The contrast between third- and first-personal accounts of the experiences of autistic persons has much to teach us about epistemic injustice and epistemic…”
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The field and landscape of affordances: Koffka’s two environments revisited by Kiverstein, Julian, van Dijk, Ludger, Rietveld, Erik

“…The smooth integration of the natural sciences with everyday lived experience is an important ambition of radical embodied cognitive science. In this paper we…”
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Virtue signalling is virtuous by Levy, Neil

“…The accusation of virtue signalling is typically understood as a serious charge. Those accused usually respond (if not by an admission of fault) by attempting…”
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Self-supervision, normativity and the free energy principle by Hohwy, Jakob

“…The free energy principle says that any self-organising system that is at nonequilibrium steady-state with its environment must minimize its (variational) free…”
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Is memory for remembering? Recollection as a form of episodic hypothetical thinking by De Brigard, Felipe

“…Misremembering is a systematic and ordinary occurrence in our daily lives. Since it is commonly assumed that the function of memory is to remember the past,…”
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The explanation game: a formal framework for interpretable machine learning by Watson, David S., Floridi, Luciano

“…We propose a formal framework for interpretable machine learning. Combining elements from statistical learning, causal interventionism, and decision theory, we…”
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Axiomatic rationality and ecological rationality by Gigerenzer, Gerd

“…Axiomatic rationality is defined in terms of conformity to abstract axioms. Savage (The foundations of statistics, Wiley, New York, 1954 ) limited axiomatic…”
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Know-how, action, and luck by Pavese, Carlotta

“…A good surgeon knows how to perform a surgery; a good architect knows how to design a house. We value their know-how. We ordinarily look for it. What makes it…”
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