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Gilles Deleuze – What is Philosophy? [audio]

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Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was a French philosopher who made significant contributions to the field of Continental philosophy. He was born in Paris and studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, where he later taught for many years. Deleuze's work is characterized by his emphasis on difference and multipl

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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing

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At present, it isn’t easy to find a topic more relevant and rapidly developing than the philosophy of artificial intelligence. Philosophers have been …

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Philosophy Is an Art

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For Margaret Macdonald, philosophical theories are akin to stories, meant to enlarge certain aspects of human life

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How can Philosophy help in our Modern World?

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In our modern world, many believe that philosophy is outdated, that we have arrived at science, which can solve all of our problems… Continue reading on Becoming Human: Artificial Intelligence Magazine »

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Notes on a New Philosophy of Empirical Science (2011)

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This book presents a methodology and philosophy of empirical science based on large scale lossless data compression. The compression philosophy can justify complex models because of the large quantity of data being modeled (if the target database is 100 Gb, it is easy to justify a 10 Mb model).

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Structuralism as a Philosophy of Mathematics

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For mathematical insight, according to the structuralist imperative, investigate mathematical structure and consider mathematical concepts only as invariant under isomorphism.

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Reaching the Unix philosophy's logical extreme with WebAssembly

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Reaching the Unix Philosophy's Logical Extreme with Webassembly - Xe's Blog

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