James Davidson

James Norman Davidson, 1911-1972.

Hacking Davidson

Scheme,” Donald Davidson argues against the logical possibility of conceptual schemes. Believing it a remnant of the incomplete eradication of dogma in the empiricist tradition, Davidson wishes to undermine what he believes is the source of talk of conceptual relativism: the third dogma of scheme-content duality. Building on Quine, he constructs an argument intended to illustrate the peculiar p...

Eric Davidson

is instrumental against infection. The prize was given to the lab chief, Jules Hoffmann. But the first author on the paper, Bruno Lemaitre, has argued that he initiated the project and planned it, that he made the discovery that mutations in the Toll pathway rendered a fly impotent against infection, that he wrote up the first version of the paper and that Hoffmann’s scientific contribution to ...

Interview with Eric Davidson.

This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting galley proof before it is published in its final citable form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which coul...

Research Statement -ian Davidson

Research Interests My research allows computers to solve complex problems associated with inferring patterns from data. This places my work in the data mining (DM) and machine learning (ML) fields of artificial intelligence (AI) which contain interesting problems and a range of fascinating currently used and potentially applicable computational techniques. The larger scale contribution of my re...