A List of Philosophical Schools Of Thought

Analytic Philosophy - A broad philosophical tradition characterized by an emphasis on clarity

and argument (often achieved via modern formal logic and analysis of language) and a respect
for the natural sciences. The more specific set of developments of early 20th-century philosophy
that were the historical antecedents of the broad sense: e.g., the work of Bertrand Russell,
Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. E. Moore, Gottlob Frege, and logical positivists.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_philosophy

Argumentation theory - The interdisciplinary study of how conclusions can be reached through
logical reasoning; that is, claims based, soundly or not, on premises. It includes the arts and
sciences of civil debate, dialogue, conversation, and persuasion. It studies rules of inference,
logic, and procedural rules in both artificial and real world settings.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentation_theory

Behaviorism - an approach to psychology that combines elements of philosophy, methodology,

and theory. It emerged in the early twentieth century as a reaction to "mentalistic" psychology,
which often had difficulty making predictions that could be tested using rigorous experimental
methods. The primary tenet of behaviorism, as expressed in the writings of John B. Watson, B.
F. Skinner, and others, is that psychology should concern itself with the observable behavior of
people and animals, not with unobservable events that take place in their minds. The behaviorist
school of thought maintains that behaviors as such can be described scientifically without
recourse either to internal physiological events or to hypothetical constructs such as thoughts and
beliefs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behaviorism

Connectionism - A set of approaches in the fields of artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology,

cognitive science, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind, that models mental or behavioral
phenomena as the emergent processes of interconnected networks of simple units. The term was
introduced by Donald Hebb in the 1940's. There are many forms of connectionism, but the most
common forms use neural network models.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectionism
Constructivism - a theory of knowledge (epistemology) that argues that humans generate
knowledge and meaning from an interaction between their experiences and their ideas. It has
influenced a number of disciplines, including psychology, sociology, education and the history
of science. During infancy, it was an interaction between human experiences and their reflexes or
behavior-patterns. Jean Piaget called these systems of knowledge schemata. Constructivism is
not a specific pedagogy, although it is often confused with constructionism, an educational
theory developed by Seymour Papert, inspired by constructivist and experiential learning ideas
of Piaget.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_%28philosophy_of_education%29

Constructionism - A theory inspired by the constructivist theory that individual learners construct
mental models to understand the world around them. Constructionism advocates student-
centered, discovery learning where students use information they previously know to acquire
more knowledge. This is done through participation in project-based learning where students are
able to make connections between different ideas and areas of knowledge that the teacher helps
them to form: “In the constructionist paradigm, the teacher’s role is not to lecture or provide
structured activities that guide students, step by step...Instead, teachers in a constructionist
classroom are called to function as facilitators who coach learners as they blaze their own paths
toward personally meaningful goals.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructionism_%28learning_theory%29

Dialectical Materialism - a philosophy of science and nature, based on the writings of Karl Marx
and Friedrich Engels, and developed largely in Russia and the Soviet Union. It was inspired by
dialectic and materialist philosophical traditions. The main idea of dialectical materialism lies in
the concept of the evolution of the natural world and the emergence of new qualities of being at
new stages of evolution. As Z. A. Jordan notes, "Engels made constant use of the metaphysical
insight that the higher level of existence emerges from and has its roots in the lower; that the
higher level constitutes a new order of being with its irreducible laws; and that this process of
evolutionary advance is governed by laws of development which reflect basic properties of
'matter in motion as a whole'."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectical_materialism

Dualism - In philosophy of mind, dualism is a view about the relationship between mind and
matter which claims that mind and matter are two ontologically separate categories. Mind-body
dualism claims that neither the mind nor matter can be reduced to each other in any way.
Western dualist philosophical traditions (as exemplified by Descartes) equate mind with the
conscious self and theorize on consciousness on the basis of mind/body dualism. In philosophy
of science, dualism often refers to the dichotomy between the "subject" (the observer) and the
"object" (the observed).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dualism

Epistemology - The branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and scope of knowledge and
is also referred to as "theory of knowledge". It questions what knowledge is and how it can be
acquired, and the extent to which knowledge pertinent to any given subject or entity can be
acquired. Much of the debate in this field has focused on the philosophical analysis of the nature
of knowledge and how it relates to connected notions such as truth, belief, and knowledge as the
justification of true beliefs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology

Essentialism - A belief that things have a set of characteristics that make them what they are, and
that the task of science and philosophy is their discovery and expression. It is the view that, for
any specific entity (such as an animal, a group of people, a physical object, a concept), there is a
set of attributes which are necessary to its identity and function. In Western thought the concept
is found in the work of Plato and Aristotle. Platonic idealism is the earliest known theory of how
all known things and concepts have an essential reality behind them (an "Idea" or "Form"), an
essence that makes those things and concepts what they are.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essentialism

Empiricism - The theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience. Stimulated by the
rise of experimental science, it developed in the 17th and 18th centuries, expounded in particular
by John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empiricism

Evolutionary Epistemology (growth of knowledge) - a theory that applies the concepts of

biological evolution to the growth of human knowledge, and argues that units of knowledge
themselves, particularly scientific theories, evolve according to selection. In this case, a theory—
like the germ theory of disease—becomes more or less credible according to changes in the body
of knowledge surrounding it. One of the hallmarks of evolutionary epistemology is the notion
that empirical testing does not justify the truth of scientific theories, but rather that social and
methodological processes select those theories with the closest "fit" to a given problem. The
mere fact that a theory has survived the most rigorous empirical tests available does not, in the
calculus of probability, predict its ability to survive future testing. All theories are true only
provisionally, regardless of the degree of empirical testing they have survived.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_epistemology

Existentialism - A term applied to the philosophy of certain late 19th- and 20th-century thinkers
who, despite profound doctrinal differences, shared the belief that philosophical thinking begins
with the human subject — not merely the thinking subject, but the acting, feeling, living human
individual. In existentialism, the individual's starting point is characterized by what has been
called "the existential attitude", or a sense of disorientation and confusion in the face of an
apparently meaningless or absurd world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism

Fallibilism - the philosophical principle that human beings could be wrong about their beliefs,
expectations, or their understanding of the world, and yet still be justified in holding their
incorrect beliefs. The recognition that there are no authoritative sources of knowledge, nor any
reliable means of justifying knowledge as true. Some fallibilists argue that absolute certainty
about knowledge is impossible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallibilism

Falsificationism- A scientific philosophy based on the requirement that hypotheses must be

falsifiable in order to be scientific; if a claim is not able to be refuted it is not a scientific claim.
Falsifiability or refutability of a statement, hypothesis, or theory is an inherent possibility to
prove it to be false. A statement is called falsifiable if it is possible to conceive an observation or
an argument which proves the statement in question to be false.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability#Falsificationism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability

Formal Logic - The use and study of valid reasoning. The study of logic features most
prominently in the subjects of philosophy, mathematics, and computer science.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic

The Frankfurt School - A school of social theory and philosophy associated in part with the
Institute for Social Research at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Founded during the interwar
period, the School consisted of dissidents who felt at home in none of the existent capitalist,
fascist, or communist systems of the time. Many of these theorists believed that traditional theory
could not adequately explain the turbulent and unexpected development of capitalist societies in
the twentieth century. Critical of both capitalism and Soviet socialism, their writings pointed to
the possibility of an alternative path to social development.
Although sometimes only loosely affiliated, Frankfurt School theorists spoke with a common
paradigm in mind; they shared the Marxist Hegelian premises and were preoccupied with similar
questions. To fill in the perceived omissions of classical Marxism, they sought to draw answers
from other schools of thought, hence using the insights of anti-positivist sociology,
psychoanalysis, existential philosophy, and other disciplines. The school's main figures sought to
learn from and synthesize the works of such varied thinkers as Kant, Hegel, Marx, Freud, Weber,
Simmel, and Lukács.

Following Marx, they were concerned with the conditions that allow for social change and the
establishment of rational institutions. Their emphasis on the "critical" component of theory was
derived significantly from their attempt to overcome the limits of positivism, materialism, and
determinism by returning to Kant's critical philosophy and its successors in German idealism,
principally Hegel's philosophy, with its emphasis on dialectic and contradiction as inherent
properties of human reality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School

Functionalism - a theory of the mind in contemporary philosophy, developed largely as an

alternative to both the identity theory of mind and behaviorism. Its core idea is that mental states
(beliefs, desires, being in pain, etc.) are constituted solely by their functional role – that is, they
are causal relations to other mental states, numerous sensory inputs, and behavioral
outputs. Functionalism is a theoretical level between the physical implementation and behavioral
output.Therefore, it is different from its predecessors of Cartesian dualism (advocating
independent mental and physical substances) and
Skinnerian behaviorism and physicalism (declaring only physical substances) because it is only
concerned with the effective functions of the brain, through its organization or its "software
programs".
Since mental states are identified by a functional role, they are said to be realized on multiple
levels; in other words, they are able to be manifested in various systems, even perhaps
computers, so long as the system performs the appropriate functions. While computers are
physical devices with electronic substrate that perform computations on inputs to give outputs, so
brains are physical devices with neural substrate that perform computations on inputs which
produce behaviors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functionalism_(philosophy_of_mind)

Idealism - An approach to philosophy that regards mind, spirit, or ideas as the most fundamental
kinds of reality, or at least as governing our experience of the ordinary objects in the world.
Idealism is opposed to materialism, naturalism, and realism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idealism

Informal logic - An attempt to develop a logic that can assess and analyze the arguments that
occur in natural language (“everyday,” “ordinary language”) discourse.A branch of logic whose
task is to develop non-formal standards, criteria, procedures for the analysis, interpretation,
evaluation, criticism and construction of argumentation. Informal logic is associated with critical
thinking and the interdisciplinary inquiry known as argumentation theory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal_logic
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-informal/

Logical Positivism - A 20th century philosophical movement holding that all meaningful
statements are either analytic or conclusively verifiable or at least confirmable by observation
and experiment and that metaphysical theories are therefore strictly meaningless —called also
logical empiricism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_positivism

Marxism - A philosophical worldview and method of societal analysis that focuses on class
relations and societal conflict, that uses a materialist interpretation of historical development, and
a dialectical view of social transformation. Marxist methodology uses economic and
sociopolitical inquiry and applies that to the critique and analysis of the development of
capitalism and the role of class struggle in systemic economic change.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism

Materialism - The position that nothing exists except matter — things that can be measured or
known through the senses. Materialists deny the existence of spirit, and they look for physical
explanations for all phenomena.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialism

Mathematical logic - a subfield of mathematics exploring the applications of formal logic to

mathematics. Topically, mathematical logic bears close connections to metamathematics, the
foundations of mathematics, and theoretical computer science. The unifying themes in
mathematical logic include the study of the expressive power of formal systems and the
deductive power of formal proof systems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_logic

Memetics -  A theory of mental content based on an analogy with Darwinian evolution.

Proponents describe memetics as an approach to evolutionary models of cultural information
transfer.  The meme, analogous to a gene, was conceived as a "unit of culture" (an idea, belief,
pattern of behaviour, etc.) which is "hosted" in the minds of one or more individuals, and which
can reproduce itself, thereby jumping from mind to mind. Thus what would otherwise be
regarded as one individual influencing another to adopt a belief is seen as an idea-replicator
reproducing itself in a new host. As with genetics, a meme's success may be due to its
contribution to the effectiveness of its host.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetics

Metaphysics - a traditional branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the fundamental

nature of being and the world that encompasses it, although the term is not easily defined.
Traditionally, metaphysics attempts to answer two basic questions in the broadest possible terms:
What is ultimately there? What is it like?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics

Methodological Nominalism - Karl Popper splits the ambiguous term realism into essentialism
and realism. He uses essentialism whenever he means the opposite of nominalism, and realism
only as opposed to idealism. Popper himself is a realist as opposed to an idealist, but a
methodological nominalist as opposed to an essentialist. For example, statements like "a puppy is
a young dog" should be read from right to left, as an answer to "What shall we call a young dog";
never from left to right as an answer to 'What is a puppy?'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essentialism

Moral Fallibilism - a specific subset of the broader epistemological fallibilism (see above). In the
debate between moral subjectivism and moral objectivism, moral fallibilism holds out a third
plausible stance: that objectively true moral standards may exist, but that they cannot be reliably
or conclusively determined by humans. This avoids the problems associated with the flexibility
of subjectivism by retaining the idea that morality is not a matter of mere opinion, whilst
accounting for the conflict between differing objective moralities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallibilism

Naturalism - the "idea or belief that only natural (as opposed to supernatural or spiritual) laws
and forces operate in the world." Adherents of naturalism (i.e., naturalists) assert that natural
laws are the rules that govern the structure and behavior of the natural universe, that the
changing universe at every stage is a product of these laws.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalism_%28philosophy%29

Nihilism -  A philosophical doctrine that suggests the negation of one or more reputedly
meaningful aspects of life. The Greek philosopher and Sophist, Gorgias (C. 485 BCE-380 BCE),
is perhaps the first to consider the Nihilistic belief. Existential nihilism argues that life is without
objective meaning, purpose, or intrinsic value. Moral nihilists assert that morality does not
inherently exist, and that any established moral values are abstractly contrived. Nihilism can also
take epistemological or ontological/metaphysical forms, meaning respectively that, in some
aspect, knowledge is not possible or that reality does not actually exist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism

Nominalism - A metaphysical view in philosophy according to which general or abstract terms

and predicates exist, while universals or abstract objects, which are sometimes thought to
correspond to these terms, do not exist. There are at least two main versions of nominalism. One
version denies the existence of universals – things that can be instantiated or exemplified by
many particular things (e.g., strength, humanity). The other version specifically denies the
existence of abstract objects – objects that do not exist in space and time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominalism

Objectivism - One of several doctrines holding that all reality is objective and external to the
mind and that knowledge is reliably based on observed objects and events. An emphasis on
objects rather than feelings or thoughts in literature or art.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivity_%28philosophy%29

Ontology - The philosophical study of the nature of being, becoming, existence, or reality, as
well as the basic categories of being and their relations. Traditionally listed as a part of the major
branch of philosophy known as metaphysics, ontology deals with questions concerning what
entities exist or can be said to exist, and how such entities can be grouped, related within a
hierarchy, and subdivided according to similarities and differences. In computer and information
science, an ontology is a formal framework for representing knowledge. This framework names
and defines the types, properties, and interrelationships of the entities in a domain of discourse.
The entities are conceptualizations (limited abstractions) of phenomena. An ontology
compartmentalizes the variables needed for some set of computations, and establishes the
relationships between them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_%28information_science%29

Philosophy of language - A branch of philosophy concerned with four central problems: the
nature of meaning, language use, language cognition, and the relationship between language and
reality. For continental philosophers, however, the philosophy of language tends to be dealt with,
not as a separate topic, but as a part of logic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_language
Philosophy of science - a branch of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and
implications of science. The central questions concern what counts as science, the reliability of
scientific theories, and the purpose of science. This discipline overlaps with metaphysics,
ontology and epistemology, for example, when it explores the relationship between science and
truth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_science

Positivism - A philosophical system that holds that every rationally justifiable assertion can be
scientifically verified or is capable of logical or mathematical proof, and that therefore rejects
metaphysics and theism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positivism

Postmodernism - A broad movement that developed in the mid- to late 20th century across
philosophy, the arts, architecture and criticism which marked a departure from modernism.
While encompassing a broad range of ideas, postmodernism is typically defined by an attitude of
skepticism, irony or distrust toward grand narratives, ideologies and various tenets of
universalism, including objective notions of reason, human nature, social progress, moral
universalism, absolute truth, and objective reality. Instead, it asserts to varying degrees that
claims to knowledge and truth are products of social, historical or political discourses or
interpretations, and are therefore contextual or socially constructed. Accordingly, postmodern
thought is broadly characterized by tendencies to epistemological and moral relativism,
pluralism, irreverence and self-referentiality.

The term postmodernism has been applied both to the era following modernity and to a host of
movements within that era (mainly in art, music, and literature) that reacted against tendencies in
modernism. Postmodernism includes skeptical critical interpretations of culture, literature, art,
philosophy, history, linguistics, economics, architecture, fiction, feminist theory, and literary
criticism. Postmodernism is often associated with schools of thought such as deconstruction and
post-structuralism, as well as philosophers such as Jean-François Lyotard and Jacques Derrida,
Frederic Jameson.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism

Pragmatism - An approach that assesses the truth of meaning of theories or beliefs in terms of the
success of their practical application. Pragmatism is a rejection of the idea that the function of
thought is to describe, represent, or mirror reality. Instead, pragmatists develop their philosophy
around the idea that the function of thought is as an instrument or tool for prediction, action, and
problem solving. Pragmatists contend that most philosophical topics — such as the nature of
knowledge, language, concepts, meaning, belief, and science — are all best viewed in terms of
their practical uses and successes rather than in terms of representative accuracy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatism
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pragmatism/

Rationalism - A belief or theory that opinions and actions should be based on reason and
knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response. The theory that reason rather
than experience is the foundation of certainty in knowledge. A theory that reason is in itself a
source of knowledge superior to and independent of sense perceptions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalism

Realism (aka Philosophical Realism) - An approach to philosophy that regards external objects
as the most fundamentally real things, with perceptions or ideas as secondary. Realism is thus
opposed to idealism. Materialism and naturalism are forms of realism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_realism

Realism (aka Platonic Realism) - the theory of reality developed by Plato, and explained in his
theory of Forms. Platonic realism states that the visible world of particular things is a shifting
exhibition, like shadows cast on a wall by the activities of their corresponding universal Ideas or
Forms. Whereas the visible world of particulars is unreal, the Forms occupy the unobservable yet
true reality and are real.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_realism

Relativism -  (1) The concept that points of view have no absolute truth or validity, having only
relative, subjective value according to differences in perception and consideration. (2) The
doctrine that knowledge, truth, and morality exist in relation to culture, society, or historical
context, and are not absolute. (3) The philosophical position that all points of view are equally
valid, and that all truth is relative to the individual. This means that all moral positions, all
religious systems, all art forms, all political movements, etc., are truths that are relative to the
individual. (4)  Relativism is sometimes identified (usually by its critics) as the thesis that all
points of view are equally valid. In ethics, this amounts to saying that all moralities are equally
good; in epistemology it implies that all beliefs, or belief systems, are equally true. Critics of
relativism typically dismiss such views as incoherent since they imply the validity even of the
view that relativism is false.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativism
http://www.iep.utm.edu/relativi/
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/relativism/
Scientism - A belief in the universal applicability of the scientific method and approach, and the
view that empirical science constitutes the most authoritative worldview or most valuable part of
human learning to the exclusion of other viewpoints.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientism

Semiotics - The study of meaning-making, the philosophical theory of signs and symbols. This
includes the study of signs and sign processes, indication, designation, likeness, analogy,
metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication. Semiotics often is divided into three
branches: (1) Semantics: relation between signs and the things to which they refer; their meaning
(2) Syntactics: relations among signs in formal structures, and (3) Pragmatics: relation between
signs and sign-using agents.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotics

Skepticism - the theory that certain knowledge is impossible. One of the main tasks of
epistemology is to find an answer to the charge of some extreme skeptics that no knowledge is
possible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skepticism

Solipsism - the theory that the self is all that can be known to exist. As an epistemological
position, solipsism holds that knowledge of anything outside one's own mind is unsure; the
external world and other minds cannot be known, and might not exist outside the mind. As a
metaphysical position, solipsism goes further to the conclusion that the world and other minds do
not exist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism

Subjectivism -  The philosophical tenet that "our own mental activity is the only unquestionable
fact of our experience". In other words, subjectivism is the doctrine that knowledge is merely
subjective and that there is no external or objective truth. The success of this position is
historically attributed to Descartes and his methodic doubt. Subjectivism accords primacy to
subjective experience as fundamental of all measure and law. In extreme forms like Solipsism, it
may hold that the nature and existence of every object depends solely on someone's subjective
awareness of it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjectivism
Universal Darwinism - A term that refers to a variety of approaches that extend the theory of
Darwinism beyond its original domain of biological evolution on Earth. Universal Darwinism
aims to formulate a generalized version of the mechanisms of variation, selection and heredity
proposed by Charles Darwin, so that they can apply to explain evolution in a wide variety of
other domains, including psychology, economics, culture, medicine, computer science and
physics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Darwinism

Verificationism - The doctrine that a proposition is only cognitively meaningful if it can be

definitively and conclusively determined to be either true or false (i.e. verifiable or falsifiable). It
is also know as the Verifiability Criterion of Meaning or the Verification Principle. See also
Logical Positivism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verificationism

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Personal AIs in a Surveillance Society
Personal AIs in a Surveillance Society
Dec 24th
Two case studies that illustrate why humans may want to live in a simulation
Two case studies that illustrate why humans may want to live in a simulation
Dec 16th
Simulation Hypothesis References
Simulation Hypothesis References
Dec 16th 1
Discussion of Anthony Alessandrini's take on Critical Thinking
Discussion of Anthony Alessandrini's take on Critical Thinking
Dec 13th
Discussion of the Open Educational Resources (OER) Movement
Discussion of the Open Educational Resources (OER) Movement
Dec 12th
Passing the Knowledge Stock Down from One Generation to the Next
Passing the Knowledge Stock Down from One Generation to the Next
Dec 11th
Someone has rediscovered a simplified way to solve the quadratic equation!
Dec 9th
Holiday Music Classics
Holiday Music Classics
Dec 8th
AI Book Recommendations
AI Book Recommendations
Dec 6th
Playing for Change Play List
Playing for Change Play List
Dec 3rd
When you try to control costs, it can create a jobs problem.
When you try to control costs, it can create a jobs problem.
Nov 26th
Energy and Climate Change Reading List
Energy and Climate Change Reading List
Nov 26th
Bryan Ferry Does Dylan
Bryan Ferry Does Dylan
Nov 20th
AI and Kenneth Boulding's Theory of Societal Evolution
AI and Kenneth Boulding's Theory of Societal Evolution
Nov 20th
We should sit Peter Diamandis down with Greta Thunberg
We should sit Peter Diamandis down with Greta Thunberg
Nov 17th
More Volleys in the Superintelligence Debate
More Volleys in the Superintelligence Debate
Nov 1st
The Starbugs Do Dylan
The Starbugs Do Dylan
Oct 30th
The Future of AI and Automation: Stuart Russell versus Paul Krugman
The Future of AI and Automation: Stuart Russell versus Paul Krugman
Oct 26th 1
A Great Example Of Why Prediction Is Very Difficult
A Great Example Of Why Prediction Is Very Difficult
Oct 23rd
The Analogy Between Human and Machine Learning
The Analogy Between Human and Machine Learning
Oct 22nd
The Macroeconomics of the US Stock Market
Oct 17th
Stuart Russell's new standard model for guiding the development of machine intelligence
Stuart Russell's new standard model for guiding the development of machine intelligence
Oct 9th
Implementing Go Bots With Classic Search Algorithms
Implementing Go Bots With Classic Search Algorithms
Sep 22nd 1
Two Forms of Meritocracy: Exclusionary and Inclusionary
Two Forms of Meritocracy: Exclusionary and Inclusionary
Sep 14th
Two Major Undertakings for Humanity
Two Major Undertakings for Humanity
Sep 14th
Max Boisot's Filter Model of Data, Information, and Knowledge
Sep 11th
AlphaZero: DeepLearning, Tree Search, Reinforcement Learning, and Self-play
Sep 9th
How components of agent programs work.
Sep 8th
Learning Agents
Sep 7th 1
Utility-based Agents
Sep 7th
Goal-based Agents
Sep 7th
Model-based Reflex Agents
Sep 5th

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