Annals of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science

Annals of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science

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Print ISSN : 0453-0691
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Volume 9, Issue 1

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SCIENCE, NORMS, AND BRAINS On a Cognitive Approach to the Paradigm of Knowing

Peter P. KIRSCHENMANN

1996 Volume 9 Issue 1 Pages 1-15
Published: March 05, 1996
Released on J-STAGE: March 26, 2009

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4288/jafpos1956.9.1

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Many advocates of a cognitive approach to science, a form of naturalism, claim that it possesses normative dimensions or yields normative insights. I critically examine such claims, focusing on P. M. Churchland's radical neurocomputational approach. I point out that his approach cannot provide an epistomic, but only a pragmatic, distinction between good and bad explanations and that particular claims of his-e. g., that simplicity is an epistemic virtue because “simple networks generalize better”-are hardly tenable. Before discussing such normative issues, I give a general and critical account of his views on scientific and other forms of cognition. I submit that his choice of neuroscientific and connectionist ideas is an a priori normative answer to the circularity problem, facing naturalistic approaches; that his elaboration of these ideas tends to transcend his eliminative materialism and, in fact, involves a dualism of neural mechanisms and learning algorithms.

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A Note on The Functions Which Are Not Polynomial Time Computable From Their Graphs

Asae MOCHIZUKI, Juichi SHINODA

1996 Volume 9 Issue 1 Pages 17-21
Published: March 05, 1996
Released on J-STAGE: March 26, 2009

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4288/jafpos1956.9.17

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IS-A Relation, the Principle of Comprehension and the Doctrine of Limitation of Size

Toshiharu WARAGAI

1996 Volume 9 Issue 1 Pages 23-34
Published: March 05, 1996
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4288/jafpos1956.9.23

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Quantum Logic in the Framework of Linear Logic

Akira OIDE

1996 Volume 9 Issue 1 Pages 35-46
Published: March 05, 1996
Released on J-STAGE: March 26, 2009

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4288/jafpos1956.9.35

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On Popper's Metaphysical Realism in Memory of Sir Karl Popper

Keiichiro KAMINO

1996 Volume 9 Issue 1 Pages 47-57
Published: March 05, 1996
Released on J-STAGE: March 26, 2009

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4288/jafpos1956.9.47

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