Andrew Burnside
Biographic Data
| ID | 9293163 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Burnside |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Burnside |
| SIGNATURE | BURNSIDE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | New Jersey Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2754-1600 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The New Positivism
Big data and empirical social science share an often-subterraneous assumption, namely, positivism. Some of their jointly hidden premises are that experiences, preferences, and culture are all equally quantifiable, testable, and measurable. Further, their view is a reification of the status quo, a harmonistic view of society. On the other hand, the critical view espouses social antagonism , the view that society essentially consists of a struggle …
Vice and inadequacy
Motivated by increasingly superstitious usage and socially corrosive scandals surrounding the generative artificial intelligence models (e.g., GPT-4) of today, this paper draws on the work of canonical philosophical diagnostician of superstition, Baruch Spinoza, to develop a political-psychological accounting of AI minds and their consequences. Elaborating Spinoza’s naturalism and panpsychism, we show that the Spinozian view affirms that LLMs hav…
Spinoza and Descartes on Expression and Ideas
I make the case that Spinoza built on Descartes’s conception of what it means for a mind to have an idea by linking it with his concept of expression because ideas express realities in terms of a causation‐conception conditional (but not vice versa). Briefly, if an idea is caused by a being, then that being is conceived through that idea. Descartes thinks of our clearly and distinctly possessing an idea as a sufficient ground for our expression o…
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Spinoza and Descartes on Expression and Ideas
I make the case that Spinoza built on Descartes’s conception of what it means for a mind to have an idea by linking it with his concept of expression because ideas express realities in terms of a causation‐conception conditional (but not vice versa). Briefly, if an idea is caused by a being, then that being is conceived through that idea. Descartes thinks of our clearly and distinctly possessing an idea as a sufficient ground for our expression o…
The New Positivism
Big data and empirical social science share an often-subterraneous assumption, namely, positivism. Some of their jointly hidden premises are that experiences, preferences, and culture are all equally quantifiable, testable, and measurable. Further, their view is a reification of the status quo, a harmonistic view of society. On the other hand, the critical view espouses social antagonism , the view that society essentially consists of a struggle …
Vice and inadequacy
Motivated by increasingly superstitious usage and socially corrosive scandals surrounding the generative artificial intelligence models (e.g., GPT-4) of today, this paper draws on the work of canonical philosophical diagnostician of superstition, Baruch Spinoza, to develop a political-psychological accounting of AI minds and their consequences. Elaborating Spinoza’s naturalism and panpsychism, we show that the Spinozian view affirms that LLMs hav…
Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought (2 works) · Agnosticism (1 works) · Artificial life (1 works) · Big data (1 works) · Big Data Technologies and Applications (1 works) · Bureaucracy (1 works) · Causation (1 works) · Computational and Text Analysis Methods (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Conceptualization (1 works)