PhD position, ‘Computationally realistic architectures for a Bayesian brain’

PhD position ‘Computationally realistic architectures for a Bayesian brain’ Faculty of Social Sciences Vacancy number: 24.21.13 Closing date: 14 July 2013 This PhD project aims to advance our understanding of the computational foundations of probabilistic inference and learning in the brain. According to current theory, even only approximately computing probabilistic …

Got Salmon?

Wesley Salmon often mentioned, or implicitly referred to, the “overcoming psychological uneasiness” conception of scientific explanation (e.g., 1984: 12-13).  Do any readers know whether anyone has actually ever held the view Salmon characterizes?  Did Salmon ever attribute it to anyone or otherwise cite anyone as having been sympathetic to it?  …

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