Galit and I discuss the independent roles of prediction and explanation in scientific models, their history and eventual separation in the philosophy of science, how they can inform each other, and how statisticians like Galit view the current deep learning explosion.
Support the Show Talia and I discuss her work on how our visual system is organized topographically, and divides into three main categories: big...
Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Mazviita Chirimuuta is a philosopher at the University of Edinburgh. Today we...
Nicole and I discuss how a signature for visual memory can be coded among the same population of neurons known to encode object identity,...