AI and Blackness: Toward Moving Beyond Bias and Representation

Beyond point and level systems: moving toward child-centered programming.

Many residential treatment facilities and child inpatient units in the United States have been structured by way of motivational programming such as the point and/or level systems. On the surface, they appear to be a straightforward contingency management tool that is based on social learning theory and operant principles. In this article, the authors argue that the assumptions upon which point...

Representation, Analytic Pragmatism and AI

Our contribution aims at individuating a valid philosophical strategy for a fruitful confrontation between human and artificial representation. The ground for this theoretical option resides in the necessity to find a solution that overcomes, on the one side, strong AI (i.e. Haugeland) and, on the other side, the view that rules out AI as explanation of human capacities (i.e. Dreyfus). We try t...

Bias and Beyond

It is becoming increasingly clear that galaxy bias is complicated , with evidence indicating that it can be time-dependent, morphology-dependent, scale-dependent, non-linear and non-deterministic. We discuss strategies for overcoming these complications and performing precision cos-mological tests with upcoming redshift surveys. The relative distribution of galaxies and mass is of increasing co...

Toward "harder" medical humanities: moving beyond the "two cultures" dichotomy.

Using the current international debate surrounding the incorporation of medical humanities into medical curricula as a starting point, the authors address both the legitimacy and didactics of teaching medical humanities to medical students. They highlight the paradox of the increasing prevalence of medical humanities in medical curricula and the often critical reception humanities courses recei...

Toward and beyond lysosomes.