Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 34, No. 90.
            Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London
                   Hosted by King's Digital Lab
                       www.dhhumanist.org
                Submit to: humanist@dhhumanist.org




        Date: 2020-06-08 08:31:59+00:00
        From: Willard McCarty 
        Subject: artificial neural networks?

I need to correspond with someone who has a solid critical but not
dismissive view and overview of the applications of artificial neural
networks (ANNs) to various disciplines. I'm not particularly interested
in the ANN as a model of the brain, rather more in it as a tool that
somehow isolates phenomena under investigation from the tacit
assumptions of the enquirer. To put the matter somewhat crudely, does
application of ANNs lead to greater objectivity, and if so in what
sense? How cautiously do we need to proceed along such lines?

Many thanks for any help -- and esp for suggestions of potential sources
of wisdom on this topic.

Yours,
WM
--
Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/),
Professor emeritus, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College
London; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
(www.tandfonline.com/loi/yisr20) and Humanist (www.dhhumanist.org)




_______________________________________________
Unsubscribe at: http://dhhumanist.org/Restricted
List posts to: humanist@dhhumanist.org
List info and archives at at: http://dhhumanist.org
Listmember interface at: http://dhhumanist.org/Restricted/
Subscribe at: http://dhhumanist.org/membership_form.php

Editor: Willard McCarty (King's College London, U.K.; Western Sydney University, Australia)
Software designer: Malgosia Askanas (Mind-Crafts)

This site is maintained under a service level agreement by King's Digital Lab.