Social Understanding by Jrgen Klver

Social Understanding by Jrgen Klver

The operation of understanding is the fundamental methodical procedure of hermeneutics and is usually seen as contradiction to scientific explanation by the usage of mathematical models. Yet understanding is the basic way in which humans organize their everyday practice, namely by understanding other people and social situations. In this book the authors demonstrate how an integration of hermeneutical understanding and scientific explanation can be done via the construction of suited geometrical models with neural networks of processes of understanding. In this sense the authors develop some kind of mathematical hermeneutics. Connecting links for the integration of the two methodical poles are the developments of particular models of Artificial Intelligence (AI), which are able to perform certain tasks of understanding.

From the reviews:

“This very slim volume is an amazing tour through the philosophy of science (and the humanities), artificial intelligence (AI), and simulationIt demonstrates impressive scholarship over a diverse collection of disciplines. … The book has only 250 pages of text, plus references and an index. It is organized in five chapters, each of which has a theme. … Research on STEM education can be as challenging as research on discipline--if better questions are asked. This book can help scholars do this.” (Anthony J. Duben, ACM Computing Reviews, December, 2011)

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ISBN 13	9789400734692
ISBN 10	9400734697
Title	Social Understanding
Author	Jrgen Klver
Series	Theory And Decision Library A
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Springer
Year published	2013-01-27
Number of pages	260
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