Dear Cambridge Philosophers of Science, Our second CamPoS talk is tomorrow (as I write), Wednesday the 17th of May. We have Alison Gopnik from UC-Berkeley talking about 'The theory theory 2.0: Bayesian models, causal inference and cognitive development'.
Her abstract follows. As usual, CamPoS meets in the basement of HPS (Seminar Room 2) from 1-2:30. Sincerely, Brian Pitts Abstract: I will report the latest ideas and results in our research exploring how children develop and revise intuitive theories. Two lines of research show, first, that young children can infer over hypotheses, abstract relations, and “framework theories” from data, as well as inferring specific cause effect relationships, and second that varieties of sampling used in machine learning can provide a good account of how this is possible at the algorithmic level. -- J. Brian Pitts Senior Research Associate Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge [email protected] Ph.D., Philosophy/History & Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame Ph.D., Physics, University of Texas at Austin _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
