Overfitting and Heuristics in Philosophy
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In his Rutgers Lectures, Timothy Williamson explains how contemporary philosophy suffers from a widespread pathology known as overfitting to natural and social scientists, but little understood by most philosophers. Overfitting involves an insufficiently critical attitude towards data, which leads to over-complicated theories designed to fit what are in fact errors in the data. In philosophy, the data typically comprise verdicts on hypothetical or...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0197779212
ISBN13:9780197779217
Release Date:September 2024
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:312 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 5.4" x 7.8"
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