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Toward a History of Epistemic Things: Synthesizing Proteins in the Test Tube
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In this paper, the authors present a survey of the state-of-the-art methods to solve the problem of self-defence and self-preservation in the context of artificial intelligence.Abstract:
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Thinking about Mechanisms
TL;DR: Thinking in terms of mechanisms provides a new framework for addressing many traditional philosophical issues: causality, laws, explanation, reduction, and scientific change.
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The Politics of Life Itself
TL;DR: The biological existence of human beings has become political in novel ways as mentioned in this paper, and the object, target and stake of this new 'vital' politics are human life itself, which has become one of the most important sites for ethical judgements and techniques.
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Knowledge Building: Theory, Pedagogy, and Technology
Abstract: There are substantial similarities between deep learning and the processes by which knowledge advances in the disciplines. During the 1960s efforts to exploit these similarities gave rise to learning by discovery, guided discovery, inquiry learning, and Science: A Process Approach (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1967). Since these initial reform efforts, scholars have learned a great deal about how knowledge advances. A mere listing of keywords suggests the significance and diversity of ideas that have come to prominence since the 1960s: approaches have changed in response to some of these developments; there is a greater emphasis on collaborative rather than individual inquiry, the tentative nature of empirical laws is more often noted, and argumentation has become an important part of some approaches. But the new " knowledge of knowledge " has much larger educational implications: Ours is a knowledge-creating civilization. A growing number of " knowledge societies " (Stehr, 1994), are joined in a deliberate effort to advance all the frontiers of knowledge. Sustained knowledge advancement is seen as essential for social progress of all kinds and for the solution of societal problems. From this standpoint the fundamental task of education is to enculturate youth into this knowledge-creating civilization and to help them find a place in it. In light of this challenge, both traditional education, with its emphasis on knowledge transmission, and the newer constructivist methods, appear as limited in scope if not entirely missing the point. Knowledge building, as elaborated in this chapter, represents an attempt to refashion education in a fundamental way, so that it becomes a coherent effort to initiate students into a knowledge creating culture. Accordingly, it involves students not only
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Enacting the social
TL;DR: The power of social science and its methods is discussed in this paper, where the authors argue that social science can help to make social reality and social worlds, but its methods are still stuck in the enactment of nineteenth-century, nation-state-based politics.
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How to Talk About the Body? the Normative Dimension of Science Studies:
TL;DR: This paper explored the work of Isabelle Stengers and Vinciane Despret in that respect and showed how it can be used to rethink the articulation between the various levels that make up a body.