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May 2007
ISBN 0262083604
114 pp.
19 illus.
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Reliable Reasoning
Gilbert Harman and Sanjeev Kulkarni

In Reliable Reasoning, Gilbert Harman and Sanjeev Kulkarni-a philosopher and an engineer-argue that philosophy and cognitive science can benefit from statistical learning theory (SLT), the theory that lies behind recent advances in machine learning. The philosophical problem of induction, for example, is in part about the reliability of inductive reasoning, where the reliability of a method is measured by its statistically expected percentage of errors-a central topic in SLT.

Table of Contents
 Contents
 Series Foreward
 Introduction
1 The Problem of Induction
2 Induction and VC Dimension
3 Induction and ``Simplicity''
4 Neural Networks, Support Vector Machines, and Transduction
 References
 Index
 
 


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