Philosophy and Machine Learning - Workshop @ NIPS 2011

Call for contributions

Researchers who want to contribute should submit a 4-page extended abstract of their work (using the NIPS style guide) by e-mail to Marcello Pelillo (pelillo@dsi.unive.it) by 23 October 2011

 

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Connections to epistemology and philosophy of science
• Essentialism vs anti-essentialism
• Foundations of probability and causality
• Abstraction and generalization
• Connections to decision and game theory
• Similarity and categorization
• Algorithmic information theory and the nature of information

The organizers will review all submissions. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by 13 November 2011.