Perspectivism with Objectivity, Causal and Temporal

Logical Consistency and Objectivity in Causal Learning

Logical consistency and objectivity are cornerstones of science that distinguish it from cult and dogma. Scientists’ concern with objectivity has led to the dominance of associative statistics, which define the basic concept of independence on observations. The same concern with avoiding subjective beliefs has led many scientific journals to favor frequentist over Bayesian statistics. Our analy...

TCLP: a temporal causal link planner with disjunctive temporal relations

In this paper, we describe TCLP, a Temporal Causal Link Planner which takes into account the duration of actions and accepts disjunctive temporal relations, while still using the principles of traditional planners which assume actions are instantaneous. We have defined a model of action with duration, and translate any temporal disjunctive relation between 2 actions with duration into a set of ...

Temporal causal inference with stochastic audiovisual sequences

Integration of sensory information across multiple senses is most likely to occur when signals are spatiotemporally coupled. Yet, recent research on audiovisual rate discrimination indicates that random sequences of light flashes and auditory clicks are integrated optimally regardless of temporal correlation. This may be due to 1) temporal averaging rendering temporal cues less effective; 2) di...

Temporal Causal Strength Learning with Multiple Causes

When learning the relation between a cause and effect, how do people control for all the other factors that influence the same effect? Two experiments tested a hypothesis that people focus on events in which the target cause changes and all other factors remain stable. In both four-cause (Experiment 1) and eight-cause (Experiment 2) scenarios, participants learned causal relations more accurate...

Perspectivism in Social Psychology