Naomi Reshotko, Socratic Virtue

Liberal Arts and Distance Education : Can Socratic Virtue ( αρετε ) and

"The diversity of cultures in this world is really important. It's the richness that we have which, in fact, will save us from being caught up in one big idea." 1 " Globalization must not be a new version of colonialism. It must respect the diversity of cultures which, within the universal harmony of peoples, are life's interpretative keys." Pope John Paul II 2 " If people use this system [of s...

Naomi Oreskes

Models in science may be used for various purposes: organizing data, synthesizing information, and making predictions. However, the value of model predictions is undermined by their uncertainty, which arises primarily from the fact that our models of complex natural systems are always open. Models can never fully specify the systems that they describe, and therefore their predictions are always...

Socratic Trees

We consider the method of Socratic proofs (SP-method). SP-method enables a formal explication of the idea of solving logical problems (i.e problems of entailment/ derivability/ theoremhood) by pure questioning, that is, by transforming the relevant initial question into consecutive questions without making any use of answers to the questions just transformed. Our aim is to give a method of tran...

Socratic Proofs

Socratic Learning

Modern machine learning techniques often use discriminative models that require large amounts of labeled data. Since generating labeled training data sets is expensive, an alternative approach is to use a generative model, which leverages a simple heuristic to weakly label data. Domain experts prefer using generative models because they “tell a story” about their data. Unfortunately, generative...