In this article, I outline the three main philosophical lessons that we may learn from Turing's work, and how they lead to a new philosophy of information. After a brief introduction, I discuss his work on the method of levels of abstraction (LoA), and his insistence that questions could be meaningfully asked only by specifying the correct LoA. I then look at his second lesson, about the sort o...

Bayes' rule shows how one might rationally change one's beliefs in the light of evidence. It is the foundation of a statistical method called Bayesianism. In health care research, Bayesianism has its advocates but the dominant statistical method is frequentism. There are at least two important philosophical differences between these methods. First, Bayesianism takes a subjectivist view of proba...

It has been suggested that philosophers should adopt a methodology largely inspired by mathematics and the “mathematical” virtues of rigor, clarity, precision are also fundamental philosophical virtues. In reply, this paper argues some excellent philosophy lacks these too much emphasis on mathematical excludes potentially valuable forms discourse makes profession less diverse than it be. Unduly...

We report anisotropic thermal expansion of the parent, AEFe2As2 (AE = Ba, Sr, and Ca), compounds. Above the structural/antiferromagnetic phase transition anisotropy of the thermal expansion coefficients is observed, with the coefficient along the a-axis being significantly smaller than the coefficient for the c-axis. The high temperature (200 K ≤ T ≤ 300 K) coefficients themselves have similar ...

Daniel Dennett’s Intuition pumps and other tools for thinking is his most exciting, original, and rigorous work since Darwin’s dangerous idea (1995), published almost twenty years ago. It is also Dennett’s most sustained and explicit discussion, in print, of his distinctive philosophical method. Dennett is notorious for eschewing the standard methodology of his discipline: analytic philosophy’s...

Лейбниц - автор интересной философской концепции, в основе которой идея предустановленной Богом гармонии мира и учение о монадах. Цель статьи показать, как состояние науки того времени повлияло на осмысление феномена жизни, предложенное немецким философом. Leibniz is the author of interesting philosophical concept in base which are idea harmony preset by God and doctrine monads. The purpose art...