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Instructors: Prof. Dr. phil. Alfred Nordmann
Event type:
Seminar
Org-unit: Dept. 02 - Institute of Philosophy
Displayed in timetable as:
H.Collins
Subject:
Crediting for:
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Course Contents:
The seminar will appreciate the philosophical contributions by sociologist of scientific knowledge Harry Collins (born 1943). These concern implicit and explicit knowledge where explicit knowledge is related to the possibility of its mechanization, routinization, automation. This concerns the relationship of humans and machines, artificial and human experts. This becomes evident from the titles of Collins's main works:
- Changing Order. Replication and Induction in Scientific Practice, The University of Chicago Press, 1985.
- Artificial Experts: Social Knowledge and Intelligent Machines, Cambridge, Mass: MIT press, 1990. Explains the nature and limits of intelligent machines, especially expert systems.
- (mit Martin Kusch) The Shape of Actions: What Humans and Machines Can Do, MIT Press, 1998.
- (mit Robert Evans) Rethinking Expertise, University of Chicago Press, 2007.
- Tacit and Explicit Knowledge, University of Chicago Press, 2010
Further Grading Information:
This course will be offered in English - the readings are in English as will be much of the discussion (students are at liberty to contribute to the discussion in German).
Official Course Description:
The seminar will appreciate the philosophical contributions by sociologist of scientific knowledge Harry Collins (born 1943). These concern implicit and explicit knowledge where explicit knowledge is related to the possibility of its mechanization, routinization, automation. This concerns the relationship of humans and machines, artificial and human experts. This becomes evident from the titles of Collins's main works:
- Changing Order. Replication and Induction in Scientific Practice, The University of Chicago Press, 1985.
- Artificial Experts: Social Knowledge and Intelligent Machines, Cambridge, Mass: MIT press, 1990. Explains the nature and limits of intelligent machines, especially expert systems.
- (mit Martin Kusch) The Shape of Actions: What Humans and Machines Can Do, MIT Press, 1998.
- (mit Robert Evans) Rethinking Expertise, University of Chicago Press, 2007.
- Tacit and Explicit Knowledge, University of Chicago Press, 2010
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