[FRIAM] science privilege — fork from acid epistemology

[Frank Wimberly]

I'll venture a comment.  My last position at Carnegie Mellon was as a
"Principal Scientist" in the Philosophy Department. My colleagues over the
years had developed algorithms for inferring causal models based on
observational data.  Didn't someone here recently say that correlation is
not causation?  My job was to implement the algorithms and to develop
online user interfaces to make them available to practicing scientists.  My
colleagues were bonafide philosophers of science.  I think I've already
mentioned their book "Causation, Prediction, and Search".  See
http://www.phil.cmu.edu/tetrad for details.

Frank

Frank C. Wimberly
505 670-9918
Santa Fe, NM

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020, 11:06 AM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry, Glen.  I didn't mean to imply any kind of argument in the matter.
> The comment just interested me, and I thought you might have information to
> share with me.  It wasn't clear that I could even support the more general
> proposition, the one I thought you were making, let alone the more specific
> one that you actually made.
>
> Nick
>
> Nicholas Thompson
> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
> Clark University
> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of u?l? ?
> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2020 10:58 AM
> To: FriAM <friam at redfish.com>
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] science privilege — fork from acid epistemology
>
> I'm not going to answer because that's irrelevant. The challenge is
> whether or not conversations like this impact the science done by those who
> have them.
>
> On 3/12/20 9:56 AM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
> > Ah!  When you say that the benefit of philosophy to science is
> "straightforward", what do you have in mind?
> --
> ☣ uǝlƃ
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