On April 24, there is an online workshop featuring emerging young philosophers in the Asian region. My PhD student Soto Michida will give a talk entitled "A Deep Learning Perspective on Teleosemantics." He is doing fantastic work. Check it out!
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少ない・・・？コミュ力おばけだと思ってました．
Very nice by Jun Otsuka @junotk.bsky.social and Hayato Saigo: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
about causal interventions/do calculus via string diagram surgery
"If you read only one book on the philosophy of statistics, make it this one. Otsuka’s compact yet comprehensive treatment (under 190 pages) provides a uniquely integrated view of the major statistical frameworks that shape modern data science and AI."
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Our process causation paper is published in Synthese! We propose that process causation (a la Salmon, Dowe, MDC new mechanists) can be modeled using a category-theoretic framework.
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Thank you for sharing and recommending the book!
This is a very good book, and you can read it for free!
All titles of Cambridge Elements in the Philosophy of Biology, including mine The Role of Mathematics in Evolutionary Theory, are downloadable for free till the 25th.
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Thank YOU for the wonderful talk! It was such a pleasure and an honor to have you in the Japanese phil sci community. I hope you enjoy the rest of your stay!
In Sendai where our fantastic host @junotk.bsky.social opens up the meeting of the Japanese Phil of Science Association (ita founding members include physicist Yukawa, I am told) and to these days includes lots of logicians and scientists alike. Excellent opening talk by @terumiyake.bsky.social
Packed day at the Japanese Phil Scie Association with brilliant talks by @junotk.bsky.social on rethinking the ontology associated with statistical models and Hanti Lin on realism and machine learning. Huge thanks to @junotk.bsky.social for stellar organisation and unrivalled hospitality. 💫
It was such a great honor to host Prof. Michela Massimi’s @michelamassimi.bsky.social special lecture at the Japanese Philosophy of Science Association. Her talk was truly inspiring for thinking about a more human-centered form of science—something much needed today.
A real joy to visit Taipei and to meet in person the incredible community of philosophers of science in South East Asia as well as hanging around with my old friend @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social and new colleagues too. Huge thanks to Karen Yan our wonderful host here 💫
Methodological legacy: microcinematography combined with quantitative measurement. Conceptual legacy: contact inhibition of locomotion. Applicability and fecundity: neural crest cell migration, neuronal cell dispersion, and cancer invasion
New article! Alan Love @mcps-philsci.bsky.social & I reflect on methodological & conceptual legacies of M. Abercrombie: quantitative measurement of cell behavior & concept of contact inhibition of locomotion. Published in @devbiol.bsky.social eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
This perspective leads to rich and intriguing implications—for example, the importance of diversity in science, and Kuhnian paradigm shifts as phase transitions in Bayesian updating with singular models.
I really enjoyed working on this project with such an inspiring team of scientists! (3/n, n=3)
The central idea is that the scientific community can be viewed as a Metropolis–Hastings algorithm that approximates the posterior probability. (2/n)
New paper out in Royal Society Open Science!
In this paper, we propose a novel Bayesian framework to model scientific practice as a whole, based on Taniguchi's theory of Collective Predictive Coding. (1/n)
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Thanks for sharing!
Co-authored with my students Tomoyuki Hayashi & Tatsuya Yoshii, and my colleague Hayato Saigo. Forthcoming in Synthese!
New preprint out! We use string diagrams to quantitatively model process causality (à la Salmon) and tackle issues like the Principle of Common Cause, explanatory irrelevance, and more—turns out process causation might be cooler than you thought.
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The title page of the article: "Mechanisms and Principles: Two Approaches to Scientific Generalization," just published in European Journal for Philosophy of Science
Officially published in EJPS! Alan Love @mcps-philsci.bsky.social and I discuss two forms of generalization: evolutionarily conserved mechanisms involving specific types of entities and abstract principles that are instantiated by heterogeneous entities #philsci link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Précis of Thinking About Statistics
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URL to the article: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I'm so grateful to the reviewers for their thoughtful critiques and to the editor, Masashi Kasaki, for this great opportunity!
