PhilML reading group
PhilML reading group
The PhilML reading group discusses current topics in the philosophy of machine learning with a special focus on the philosophy of science. Organized by Timo Freiesleben, Ben Höltgen, and Sebastian Zezulka.
- Schurz, G. (2017). No Free Lunch Theorem, Inductive Skepticism, and the Optimality of Meta-induction. Philosophy of Science, 84(5), 825-839. doi:10.1086/693929.
- Liu, K., & Meng, X. L. (2016). There is individualized treatment. Why not individualized inference?. Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application, 3, 79-111.
- Birch, J., & Buskell, A. (2022). ‘How We Got Stuck: The Origins of Hierarchy and Inequality’. Mind & Language, 37(4), 751–759.
- Leonelli, Sabina. “What distinguishes data from models?.” European Journal for Philosophy of Science 9.2 (2019): 1-27.
- Laudan, L. (1990). Demystifying underdetermination. Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science, 14(1990), 267-297.
- Hasson, Uri, Samuel A. Nastase, and Ariel Goldstein. “Direct fit to nature: an evolutionary perspective on biological and artificial neural networks.” Neuron 105.3 (2020): 416-434.
- Dawid, P. (2017). On individual risk. Synthese, 194(9), 3445-3474.
- Hu, L. (2021). Tech Ethics: Speaking Ethics to Power, or Power Speaking Ethics?. Journal of Social Computing, 2(3), 238-248.
- Arkoudas, K. (2023). ChatGPT is no stochastic parrot. But it also claims that 1 is greater than 1. Medium.
- Schölkopf, B. (2022). Causality for machine learning. In Probabilistic and Causal Inference: The Works of Judea Pearl (pp. 765-804).
- Desai, J., Watson, D., Wang, V., Taddeo, M., & Floridi, L. (2022). The epistemological foundations of data science: a critical review. Synthese, 200(6), 469.
- Lee, M. S. A., Floridi, L., & Singh, J. (2021). Formalising trade-offs beyond algorithmic fairness: lessons from ethical philosophy and welfare economics. AI and Ethics, 1(4), 529-544. AND Atkinson, A. B. (2011). The restoration of welfare economics. American Economic Review, 101(3), 157-161.
- Vredenburgh, K. (2022). The right to explanation. Journal of Political Philosophy, 30(2), 209-229.
- Lehman, J., Clune, J., Misevic, D., Adami, C., Altenberg, L., Beaulieu, J., … & Yosinski, J. (2020). The surprising creativity of digital evolution: A collection of anecdotes from the evolutionary computation and artificial life research communities. Artificial life, 26(2), 274-306.