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Acting and Reflecting - The Interdisciplinary Turn in Philosophy (Hardcover, 1990 ed.)
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Acting and Reflecting - The Interdisciplinary Turn in Philosophy (Hardcover, 1990 ed.)
Series: Synthese Library, 211
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In the fall of 1985 Carnegie Mellon University established a
Department of Philosophy. The focus of the department is logic
broadly conceived, philos- ophy of science, in particular of the
social sciences, and linguistics. To mark the inauguration of the
department, a daylong celebration was held on April 5, 1986. This
celebration consisted of two keynote addresses by Patrick Sup- pes
and Thomas Schwartz, seminars directed by members of the
department, and a panel discussion on the computational model of
mind moderated by Dana S. Scott. The various contributions, in
modified and expanded form, are the core of this collection of
essays, and they are, I believe, of more than parochial interest:
they turn attention to substantive and reflective interdis-
ciplinary work. The collection is divided into three parts. The
first part gives perspec- tives (i) on general features of the
interdisciplinary enterprise in philosophy (by Patrick Suppes,
Thomas Schwartz, Herbert A. Simon, and Clark Gly- mour) , and (ii)
on a particular topic that invites such interaction, namely
computational models of the mind (with contributions by Gilbert
Harman, John Haugeland, Jay McClelland, and Allen Newell). The
second part con- tains (mostly informal) reports on concrete
research done within that enter- prise; the research topics range
from decision theory and the philosophy of economics through
foundational problems in mathematics to issues in aes- thetics and
computational linguistics. The third part is a postscriptum by
Isaac Levi, analyzing directions of (computational) work from his
perspective.
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