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Notes on knowledge, indifference and redundancy / by Esteban Cespedes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Céspedes, Esteban, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (139 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
- Summary:
- What is knowledge? In what sense is the environment of a cognitive system more than a mere source of information? What are the roles of relevance and indifference for a characterisation of knowledge? How are knowledge and action related? These issues are considered and discussed in this book. Although it does not offer an account of knowledge, this work addresses a diverse range of important topics concerning that notion, seeking to connect them in a unifying way.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter One
- Levels of Emergence and Overdetermination
- Complexity and Two Features of Emergence
- Chapter Two
- Cognitivism
- Emergence and Connectionism
- The Enactive Approach
- Radical Enactivism
- Knowledge and Differentiation
- Chapter Three
- Interpretation, Representation and the Emergence of Concepts
- Cognitive Semantics
- Agreement and Indifference
- Chapter Four
- Signalling Games and Information
- Redundant Information
- Consciousness, Experience and Signals
- Chapter Five
- Chapter Six
- Chapter Seven
- Formulation of the Principle and Multiple Partitions
- The Principal Principle
- Ignorance
- Chapter Eight
- The Causal Relation
- The General Notion of Causal Redundancy
- Symmetric Overdetermination
- Asymmetric Overdetermination
- Early Preemption
- Late Preemption
- Chapter Nine
- Multi-level Causation
- Mathematical Overdetermination
- Constitutive Overdetermination
- Overdetermination in Physics and Biology
- The Problem of Many Hands
- Chapter Ten
- Principles for Variable Choice
- Proportionality and Context
- Chapter Eleven
- Evidential Decision Theory
- Causal Decision Theory
- Decisional Overdetermination
- Newcomb's Problem and the Prisoners' Dilemma
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 5, 2017).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-9334-X
- OCLC:
- 987252943
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