David Strohmaier
Biographic Data
| ID | 871314 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Strohmaier |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Strohmaier |
| SIGNATURE | STROHMAIER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1430-8212 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ontology, neural networks, and the social sciences
The ontology of social objects and facts remains a field of continued controversy. This situation complicates the life of social scientists who seek to make predictive models of social phenomena. For the purposes of modelling a social phenomenon, we would like to avoid having to make any controversial ontological commitments. The overwhelming majority of models in the social sciences, including statistical models, are built upon ontological assum…
Choosing for Changing Selves
As we change throughout the course of our lives, so do our values. People who once studied philosophy for the love of wisdom now publish it in pursuit of tenure. As decision theorists continue to grapple with the dynamic nature of choosing agents, Richard Pettigrew's Choosing for Changing Selves offers a general and ambitious recipe for agents with changing values. Whether in the pursuit of wisdom or as a foil for future publications, the book of…
Organisations as Computing Systems
Organisations are computing systems. The university's sports centre is a computing system for managing sports teams and facilities. The tenure committee is a computing system for assigning tenure status. Despite an increasing number of publications in group ontology, the computational nature of organisations has not been recognised. The present paper is the first in this debate to propose a theory of organisations as groups structured for computi…
Social-Computation-Supporting Kinds
Social kinds are heterogeneous. As a consequence of this diversity, some authors have sought to identify and analyse different kinds of social kinds. One distinct kind of social kinds, however, has not yet received sufficient attention. I propose that there exists a class of social-computation-supporting kinds, or SCS-kinds for short. These SCS-kinds are united by the function of enabling computations implemented by social groups. Examples of suc…
Group Membership and Parthood
Despite having faced severe criticism in the past, mereological approaches to group ontology, which argue that groups are wholes and that groups members are parts, have recently managed a comeback. Authors such as Katherine Ritchie and Paul Sheehy have applied neo-Aristotelian mereology to groups, and Katherine Hawley has defended mereological approaches against the standard objections in the literature. The present paper develops the mereologica…
Threescore and Ten: Fire, Place, and Loss in the West
He died protecting his pines. It was spring, 1948, and Aldo Leopold was spending time with his family at their beloved cabin they called Shack. Over the years, he had planted close to 30,000 trees and shrubs on the property, trying to resuscitate a tired Wisconsin sand farm into some semblance of ecological health.2 Leopold was keenly aware of fire's natural role in ecosystems, but sometimes there's more to fire and living with fire than energy f…
Group Membership and Parthood
Despite having faced severe criticism in the past, mereological approaches to group ontology, which argue that groups are wholes and that groups members are parts, have recently managed a comeback. Authors such as Katherine Ritchie and Paul Sheehy have applied neo-Aristotelian mereology to groups, and Katherine Hawley has defended mereological approaches against the standard objections in the literature. The present paper develops the mereologica…
Organisations as Computing Systems
Organisations are computing systems. The university's sports centre is a computing system for managing sports teams and facilities. The tenure committee is a computing system for assigning tenure status. Despite an increasing number of publications in group ontology, the computational nature of organisations has not been recognised. The present paper is the first in this debate to propose a theory of organisations as groups structured for computi…
Threescore and Ten: Fire, Place, and Loss in the West
He died protecting his pines. It was spring, 1948, and Aldo Leopold was spending time with his family at their beloved cabin they called Shack. Over the years, he had planted close to 30,000 trees and shrubs on the property, trying to resuscitate a tired Wisconsin sand farm into some semblance of ecological health.2 Leopold was keenly aware of fire's natural role in ecosystems, but sometimes there's more to fire and living with fire than energy f…
Group Membership and Parthood
Despite having faced severe criticism in the past, mereological approaches to group ontology, which argue that groups are wholes and that groups members are parts, have recently managed a comeback. Authors such as Katherine Ritchie and Paul Sheehy have applied neo-Aristotelian mereology to groups, and Katherine Hawley has defended mereological approaches against the standard objections in the literature. The present paper develops the mereologica…
Social-Computation-Supporting Kinds
Social kinds are heterogeneous. As a consequence of this diversity, some authors have sought to identify and analyse different kinds of social kinds. One distinct kind of social kinds, however, has not yet received sufficient attention. I propose that there exists a class of social-computation-supporting kinds, or SCS-kinds for short. These SCS-kinds are united by the function of enabling computations implemented by social groups. Examples of suc…
Ontology, neural networks, and the social sciences
The ontology of social objects and facts remains a field of continued controversy. This situation complicates the life of social scientists who seek to make predictive models of social phenomena. For the purposes of modelling a social phenomenon, we would like to avoid having to make any controversial ontological commitments. The overwhelming majority of models in the social sciences, including statistical models, are built upon ontological assum…
Choosing for Changing Selves
As we change throughout the course of our lives, so do our values. People who once studied philosophy for the love of wisdom now publish it in pursuit of tenure. As decision theorists continue to grapple with the dynamic nature of choosing agents, Richard Pettigrew's Choosing for Changing Selves offers a general and ambitious recipe for agents with changing values. Whether in the pursuit of wisdom or as a foil for future publications, the book of…
Organisations as Computing Systems
Organisations are computing systems. The university's sports centre is a computing system for managing sports teams and facilities. The tenure committee is a computing system for assigning tenure status. Despite an increasing number of publications in group ontology, the computational nature of organisations has not been recognised. The present paper is the first in this debate to propose a theory of organisations as groups structured for computi…
Epistemology (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Ontology (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Data science (2 works) · Embodied and Extended Cognition (2 works) · Engineering (2 works)