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Agent-based Models and Confirmation Theory
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Reduction and Emergence (LMU) - December 13, 2014 16:15 - 48 minutes - VideoIs it possible to develop a confirmation theory for agent-based models? The are good reasons to be skeptical: Classical confirmation theory explains how empirical evidence bears on the truth of hypotheses and theories, while agent-based models are almost always idealized and hence known to be fal...
Agent-based Models and Confirmation Theory
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Reduction and Emergence (LMU) - December 13, 2014 16:15 - 48 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIs it possible to develop a confirmation theory for agent-based models? The are good reasons to be skeptical: Classical confirmation theory explains how empirical evidence bears on the truth of hypotheses and theories, while agent-based models are almost always idealized and hence known to be fal...
The Structural Evolution of Morality
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Reduction and Emergence (LMU) - December 13, 2014 11:20 - 51 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 ratingOne general problem faced by attempts to explain the origins of morality using traditional rational choice theory is that the demands of rationality and the demands of morality often fail to coincide. This can happen in at least three different ways. Sometimes our moral intuitions recommend actio...
The Structural Evolution of Morality
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Reduction and Emergence (LMU) - December 13, 2014 11:20 - 51 minutes - VideoOne general problem faced by attempts to explain the origins of morality using traditional rational choice theory is that the demands of rationality and the demands of morality often fail to coincide. This can happen in at least three different ways. Sometimes our moral intuitions recommend actio...
Minding Norms. Mechanisms and Dynamics of Social Order in Agent Societies
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Reduction and Emergence (LMU) - December 12, 2014 16:15 - 47 minutes - VideoDespite ubiquity and universality, norms are still awaiting for a general comprehensive theory. In the presentation, a conceptual, theoretical, and computational framework will be proposed to provide a general account of norms, enabling us to investigate: (a) differences and commonalities among s...
Minding Norms. Mechanisms and Dynamics of Social Order in Agent Societies
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Reduction and Emergence (LMU) - December 12, 2014 16:15 - 47 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDespite ubiquity and universality, norms are still awaiting for a general comprehensive theory. In the presentation, a conceptual, theoretical, and computational framework will be proposed to provide a general account of norms, enabling us to investigate: (a) differences and commonalities among s...
The Formation of Epistemic Networks
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Reduction and Emergence (LMU) - December 12, 2014 11:20 - 49 minutes - VideoOne important area of study for social epistemology is the social structure epistemic groups -- who communicates their knowledge with whom? Significant research has been done on better and worse communication networks, but less has been done on how a group comes to have one network or another. In...
The Formation of Epistemic Networks
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Reduction and Emergence (LMU) - December 12, 2014 11:20 - 49 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 ratingOne important area of study for social epistemology is the social structure epistemic groups -- who communicates their knowledge with whom? Significant research has been done on better and worse communication networks, but less has been done on how a group comes to have one network or another. In...
Collective Accuracy: Agent Based & Emergent vs Statistical and Assumed
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Reduction and Emergence (LMU) - December 11, 2014 16:00 - 1 hour - Video ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn the past two decades, agent-based models (ABMs) have become ubiquitous in philosophy and various sciences. ABMs have been applied, for example, to study the evolution of norms and language, to understand migration patterns of past civilizations, to investigate how population levels change in e...
Collective Accuracy: Agent Based & Emergent vs Statistical and Assumed
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Reduction and Emergence (LMU) - December 11, 2014 16:00 - 1 hour - VideoIn the past two decades, agent-based models (ABMs) have become ubiquitous in philosophy and various sciences. ABMs have been applied, for example, to study the evolution of norms and language, to understand migration patterns of past civilizations, to investigate how population levels change in e...
Chaos beyond the Butterfly Effect
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Reduction and Emergence (LMU) - January 10, 2014 19:00 - 56 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe sensitive dependence on initial condition associated with chaotic models, the so-called "Butterfly Effect", imposes limitations on the models’ predictive power. These limitations have been widely recognized and extensively discussed. In this lecture, Roman Frigg will draw attention to an addi...
Chaos beyond the Butterfly Effect
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Reduction and Emergence (LMU) - January 10, 2014 19:00 - 56 minutes - VideoThe sensitive dependence on initial condition associated with chaotic models, the so-called "Butterfly Effect", imposes limitations on the models’ predictive power. These limitations have been widely recognized and extensively discussed. In this lecture, Roman Frigg will draw attention to an addi...
String Theory and the Scientific Method
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Reduction and Emergence (LMU) - December 10, 2013 19:00 - 54 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFor the last thirty years, string theory has played a highly influential role in fundamental physics without having found empirical confirmation. The presentation will analyze reasons for the high degree of trust many physicists have developed in a theory that, according to classical standards of...
String Theory and the Scientific Method
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Reduction and Emergence (LMU) - December 10, 2013 19:00 - 54 minutes - VideoFor the last thirty years, string theory has played a highly influential role in fundamental physics without having found empirical confirmation. The presentation will analyze reasons for the high degree of trust many physicists have developed in a theory that, according to classical standards of...
Cross-Level Linkages in Neurobiology
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Reduction and Emergence (LMU) - November 16, 2013 15:55 - 50 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 rating[Conf.] Reduction and emergence play a central role in the relations of scientific theories and disciplines. Unfortunately, the discussion about reduction and emergence suffers from two uncertainties at once. On the one hand the concepts of reduction and especially emergence are not precisely def...
Cross-Level Linkages in Neurobiology
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Reduction and Emergence (LMU) - November 16, 2013 15:55 - 50 minutes - Video[Conf.] Reduction and emergence play a central role in the relations of scientific theories and disciplines. Unfortunately, the discussion about reduction and emergence suffers from two uncertainties at once. On the one hand the concepts of reduction and especially emergence are not precisely def...
Emergence and Explanation
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Reduction and Emergence (LMU) - November 16, 2013 14:40 - 28 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 rating[Conf.] Reduction and emergence play a central role in the relations of scientific theories and disciplines. Unfortunately, the discussion about reduction and emergence suffers from two uncertainties at once. On the one hand the concepts of reduction and especially emergence are not precisely def...
Emergence and Explanation
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Reduction and Emergence (LMU) - November 16, 2013 14:40 - 28 minutes - Video[Conf.] Reduction and emergence play a central role in the relations of scientific theories and disciplines. Unfortunately, the discussion about reduction and emergence suffers from two uncertainties at once. On the one hand the concepts of reduction and especially emergence are not precisely def...
Scarecrow’s Brain and Homunculi: Neurobiological Reductionism as Ensoulment-Objectification Process Seen Through Anthropological Lenses
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Reduction and Emergence (LMU) - November 16, 2013 13:50 - 33 minutes - Video[Conf.] Reduction and emergence play a central role in the relations of scientific theories and disciplines. Unfortunately, the discussion about reduction and emergence suffers from two uncertainties at once. On the one hand the concepts of reduction and especially emergence are not precisely def...
Scarecrow’s Brain and Homunculi: Neurobiological Reductionism as Ensoulment-Objectification Process Seen Through Anthropological Lenses
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Reduction and Emergence (LMU) - November 16, 2013 13:50 - 33 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 rating[Conf.] Reduction and emergence play a central role in the relations of scientific theories and disciplines. Unfortunately, the discussion about reduction and emergence suffers from two uncertainties at once. On the one hand the concepts of reduction and especially emergence are not precisely def...
Heterogeneity and Emergence in the Social Sciences
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Reduction and Emergence (LMU) - November 16, 2013 11:05 - 30 minutes - Video[Conf.] Reduction and emergence play a central role in the relations of scientific theories and disciplines. Unfortunately, the discussion about reduction and emergence suffers from two uncertainties at once. On the one hand the concepts of reduction and especially emergence are not precisely def...
Heterogeneity and Emergence in the Social Sciences
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Reduction and Emergence (LMU) - November 16, 2013 11:05 - 30 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 rating[Conf.] Reduction and emergence play a central role in the relations of scientific theories and disciplines. Unfortunately, the discussion about reduction and emergence suffers from two uncertainties at once. On the one hand the concepts of reduction and especially emergence are not precisely def...
How Can One and the Same Thing be Subject to Different Theories? On the Proper Logic for Non-Reductive Monism
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Reduction and Emergence (LMU) - November 16, 2013 09:50 - 40 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 rating[Conf.] Reduction and emergence play a central role in the relations of scientific theories and disciplines. Unfortunately, the discussion about reduction and emergence suffers from two uncertainties at once. On the one hand the concepts of reduction and especially emergence are not precisely def...
How Can One and the Same Thing be Subject to Different Theories? On the Proper Logic for Non-Reductive Monism
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Reduction and Emergence (LMU) - November 16, 2013 09:50 - 40 minutes - Video[Conf.] Reduction and emergence play a central role in the relations of scientific theories and disciplines. Unfortunately, the discussion about reduction and emergence suffers from two uncertainties at once. On the one hand the concepts of reduction and especially emergence are not precisely def...
Technical Aspects of Reduction and Multiple Realizability
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Reduction and Emergence (LMU) - November 16, 2013 09:00 - 30 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 rating[Conf.] Reduction and emergence play a central role in the relations of scientific theories and disciplines. Unfortunately, the discussion about reduction and emergence suffers from two uncertainties at once. On the one hand the concepts of reduction and especially emergence are not precisely def...
Technical Aspects of Reduction and Multiple Realizability
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Reduction and Emergence (LMU) - November 16, 2013 09:00 - 30 minutes - Video[Conf.] Reduction and emergence play a central role in the relations of scientific theories and disciplines. Unfortunately, the discussion about reduction and emergence suffers from two uncertainties at once. On the one hand the concepts of reduction and especially emergence are not precisely def...
"Reversed Reduction" in Gibbsian Statistical Mechanics
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Reduction and Emergence (LMU) - November 15, 2013 15:55 - 33 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 rating[Conf.] Reduction and emergence play a central role in the relations of scientific theories and disciplines. Unfortunately, the discussion about reduction and emergence suffers from two uncertainties at once. On the one hand the concepts of reduction and especially emergence are not precisely def...
"Reversed Reduction" in Gibbsian Statistical Mechanics
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Reduction and Emergence (LMU) - November 15, 2013 15:55 - 33 minutes - Video[Conf.] Reduction and emergence play a central role in the relations of scientific theories and disciplines. Unfortunately, the discussion about reduction and emergence suffers from two uncertainties at once. On the one hand the concepts of reduction and especially emergence are not precisely def...
Holography and the Emergence of Gravity
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Reduction and Emergence (LMU) - November 15, 2013 14:40 - 40 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 rating[Conf.] Reduction and emergence play a central role in the relations of scientific theories and disciplines. Unfortunately, the discussion about reduction and emergence suffers from two uncertainties at once. On the one hand the concepts of reduction and especially emergence are not precisely def...
Holography and the Emergence of Gravity
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Focus Reduction and Emergence (LMU) - November 15, 2013 14:40 - 40 minutes - Video[Conf.] Reduction and emergence play a central role in the relations of scientific theories and disciplines. Unfortunately, the discussion about reduction and emergence suffers from two uncertainties at once. On the one hand the concepts of reduction and especially emergence are not precisely def...
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