Kevin T Kelly
Biographic Data
| ID | 1002208 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin T Kelly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin T |
| FAMILY NAME | Kelly |
| SIGNATURE | KELLY K T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carnegie Mellon University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Realism, rhetoric, and reliability
Plessner's Philosophical Anthropology. Perspectives and Prospects
Helmuth Plessner (1892-1985) was one of the founders of philosophical anthropology, and his book The Stages of the Organic and Man, first published in 1928, has inspired generations of philosophers, biologists, social scientists, and humanities scholars. This volume offers the first substantial introduction to Plessner’s philosophical anthropology in English, not only setting it in context with such familiar figures as Bergson, Cassirer, and Merl…
Plessner's Philosophical Anthropology: Perspectives and Prospects
A geo-logical solution to the lottery paradox, with applications to conditional logic
A New Solution to the Puzzle of Simplicity
Explaining the connection, if any, between simplicity and truth is among the deepest problems facing the philosophy of science, statistics, and machine learning. Say that an efficient truth finding method minimizes worst case costs en route to converging to the true answer to a theory choice problem. Let the costs considered include the number of times a false answer is selected, the number of times opinion is reversed, and the times at which the…
The logic of success
Etude du probleme de la verification, de la justification et de la confirmation de l'hypothese, a la lumiere du paradigme relationnel de la philosophie des sciences traditionnelle. Adoptant une epistemologie computationnelle, l'A. examine les notions de sous determination, scheme conceptuel, revolution et defaisaibilite, d'une part, et evalue la these de Church face au probleme de Hume, d'autre part.
Pro-Choice: The Promise of Technology
Transcendental Deductions and Universal Architectures for Inductive Inferences
Learning Theory and the Philosophy of Science
This paper places formal learning theory in a broader philosophical context and provides a glimpse of what the philosophy of induction looks like from a learning-theoretic point of view. Formal learning theory is compared with other standard approaches to the philosophy of induction. Thereafter, we present some results and examples indicating its unique character and philosophical interest, with special attention to its unified perspective on ind…
The Logic of Reliable Inquiry
There are many proposed aims for scientific inquiry--to explain or predict events, to confirm or falsify hypotheses, or to find hypotheses that cohere with our other beliefs in some logical or probabilistic sense. This book is devoted to a different proposal--that the logical structure of the scientist’s method should guarantee eventual arrival at the truth given the scientist’s background assumptions. Interest in this methodological property, ca…
Convergence to the Truth and Nothing but the Truth
One construal of convergent realism is that for each clear question, scientific inquiry eventually answers it. In this paper we adapt the techniques of formal learning theory to determine in a precise manner the circumstances under which this ideal is achievable. In particular, we define two criteria of convergence to the truth on the basis of evidence. The first, which we call EA convergence, demands that the theorist converge to the complete tr…
Tetrad: Discovering Causal Structure
The Logic of Discovery
There is renewed interest in the logic of discovery as well as in the position that there is no reason for philosophers to bother with it. This essay shows that the traditional, philosophical arguments for the latter position are bankrupt. Moreover, no interesting defense of the philosophical irrelevance or impossibility of the logic of discovery can be formulated or defended in isolation from computation-theoretic considerations
A geo-logical solution to the lottery paradox, with applications to conditional logic
Plessner's Philosophical Anthropology. Perspectives and Prospects
Helmuth Plessner (1892-1985) was one of the founders of philosophical anthropology, and his book The Stages of the Organic and Man, first published in 1928, has inspired generations of philosophers, biologists, social scientists, and humanities scholars. This volume offers the first substantial introduction to Plessner’s philosophical anthropology in English, not only setting it in context with such familiar figures as Bergson, Cassirer, and Merl…
Learning Theory and the Philosophy of Science
This paper places formal learning theory in a broader philosophical context and provides a glimpse of what the philosophy of induction looks like from a learning-theoretic point of view. Formal learning theory is compared with other standard approaches to the philosophy of induction. Thereafter, we present some results and examples indicating its unique character and philosophical interest, with special attention to its unified perspective on ind…
A New Solution to the Puzzle of Simplicity
Explaining the connection, if any, between simplicity and truth is among the deepest problems facing the philosophy of science, statistics, and machine learning. Say that an efficient truth finding method minimizes worst case costs en route to converging to the true answer to a theory choice problem. Let the costs considered include the number of times a false answer is selected, the number of times opinion is reversed, and the times at which the…
Realism, rhetoric, and reliability
Plessner's Philosophical Anthropology: Perspectives and Prospects
Convergence to the Truth and Nothing but the Truth
One construal of convergent realism is that for each clear question, scientific inquiry eventually answers it. In this paper we adapt the techniques of formal learning theory to determine in a precise manner the circumstances under which this ideal is achievable. In particular, we define two criteria of convergence to the truth on the basis of evidence. The first, which we call EA convergence, demands that the theorist converge to the complete tr…
The Logic of Discovery
There is renewed interest in the logic of discovery as well as in the position that there is no reason for philosophers to bother with it. This essay shows that the traditional, philosophical arguments for the latter position are bankrupt. Moreover, no interesting defense of the philosophical irrelevance or impossibility of the logic of discovery can be formulated or defended in isolation from computation-theoretic considerations
The Logic of Discovery
There is renewed interest in the logic of discovery as well as in the position that there is no reason for philosophers to bother with it. This essay shows that the traditional, philosophical arguments for the latter position are bankrupt. Moreover, no interesting defense of the philosophical irrelevance or impossibility of the logic of discovery can be formulated or defended in isolation from computation-theoretic considerations
Tetrad: Discovering Causal Structure
Convergence to the Truth and Nothing but the Truth
One construal of convergent realism is that for each clear question, scientific inquiry eventually answers it. In this paper we adapt the techniques of formal learning theory to determine in a precise manner the circumstances under which this ideal is achievable. In particular, we define two criteria of convergence to the truth on the basis of evidence. The first, which we call EA convergence, demands that the theorist converge to the complete tr…
The Logic of Reliable Inquiry
There are many proposed aims for scientific inquiry--to explain or predict events, to confirm or falsify hypotheses, or to find hypotheses that cohere with our other beliefs in some logical or probabilistic sense. This book is devoted to a different proposal--that the logical structure of the scientist’s method should guarantee eventual arrival at the truth given the scientist’s background assumptions. Interest in this methodological property, ca…
Learning Theory and the Philosophy of Science
This paper places formal learning theory in a broader philosophical context and provides a glimpse of what the philosophy of induction looks like from a learning-theoretic point of view. Formal learning theory is compared with other standard approaches to the philosophy of induction. Thereafter, we present some results and examples indicating its unique character and philosophical interest, with special attention to its unified perspective on ind…
Transcendental Deductions and Universal Architectures for Inductive Inferences
Pro-Choice: The Promise of Technology
The logic of success
Etude du probleme de la verification, de la justification et de la confirmation de l'hypothese, a la lumiere du paradigme relationnel de la philosophie des sciences traditionnelle. Adoptant une epistemologie computationnelle, l'A. examine les notions de sous determination, scheme conceptuel, revolution et defaisaibilite, d'une part, et evalue la these de Church face au probleme de Hume, d'autre part.
A New Solution to the Puzzle of Simplicity
Explaining the connection, if any, between simplicity and truth is among the deepest problems facing the philosophy of science, statistics, and machine learning. Say that an efficient truth finding method minimizes worst case costs en route to converging to the true answer to a theory choice problem. Let the costs considered include the number of times a false answer is selected, the number of times opinion is reversed, and the times at which the…
A geo-logical solution to the lottery paradox, with applications to conditional logic
Plessner's Philosophical Anthropology. Perspectives and Prospects
Helmuth Plessner (1892-1985) was one of the founders of philosophical anthropology, and his book The Stages of the Organic and Man, first published in 1928, has inspired generations of philosophers, biologists, social scientists, and humanities scholars. This volume offers the first substantial introduction to Plessner’s philosophical anthropology in English, not only setting it in context with such familiar figures as Bergson, Cassirer, and Merl…
Plessner's Philosophical Anthropology: Perspectives and Prospects
Realism, rhetoric, and reliability
Computer Science (10 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Mathematics (7 works) · Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Machine Learning and Algorithms (4 works) · Mathematical economics (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (3 works)