The hume machine: can association networks do more than formal rules ?
2005
Teil, Geneviève | Latour, Bruno | Systèmes Agraires Développement : Activités, Produits, Territoires (SADAPT) ; Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon (INA P-G) | Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation i3 (CSI i3) ; Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) ; Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation (I3) ; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) | Stefano Franchi | Güven Güzeldere
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Mostrar más [+] Menos [-]Inglés. In this article, we push the cognitive and information-science consequences of the new sociology of science and technology as far as they will go. Since there is no coherence stronger than a circumstantial network condensed or summarized into forms, structures and microtheories; since the computer, once it has shed its anthropomorphic and epistemological projections, is already capable of dealing with significant association networks; and since there are no computer programs on the market for researchers in the social sciences who deal with a great number of heterogeneous textual sources, we propose to construct a machine capable of revitalizing Hume and Condillac's unfashionable philosophical program of associationism, by giving it the material base it hitherto lacked.
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