Browsing Philosophy by Subject "Philosophy of science"
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An Algorithmic Interpretation of Quantum Probability
(2014-07-09)The Everett (or relative-state, or many-worlds) interpretation of quantum mechanics has come under fire for inadequately dealing with the Born rule (the formula for calculating quantum probabilities). Numerous attempts ... -
How Many Minds Do We Need? Toward A One-System Account of Human Reasoning
(2015-12-16)To explain data from the reasoning and decision-making literature, dual-process theorists claim that human reasoning is divided: Type-1 processes are fast, automatic, associative, and evolutionarily old, while Type-2 ... -
Merging the Natural with the Artificial: The Nature of a Machine and the Collapse of Cybernetics
(2015-08-28)This thesis is concerned with the rise and fall of cybernetics, understood as an inquiry regarding the nature of a machine. The collapse of this scientific movement, usually explained by external factors such as lack of ... -
Situating Objectivity: A Feminist Conceptualization
(2015-12-16)This dissertation focuses on the ideal of objectivity in science. My aim is to understand and situate how objectivity has been conceptualized in the philosophy of science, and to question whether these conceptualizations ...