Learning Epistemology

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LearningEpistemology.com teaches computational epistemology intuitively using narrated animation and interactive explanations.

This site is part of Seth Casana's Masters thesis for the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University. The source of the lesson material comes from the research of Kevin Kelly, a philosophy professor at CMU. The material is presented in a more traditional format in his manuscript entitled "Learning, Simplicity, Truth, and Misinformation". Related research by Kelly can be found on his homepage.

The material below was used in an experimental study to measure the presentation's teaching effectiveness. The results of that study, as well as improvements to the theory itself, have made some of the material below out of date. The Version 2 storyboard is available to view, but no animation has been created yet.

Questions and comments are always welcome.

Justification of Ockham's Razor from Truth-Finding Efficiency

  1. Introduction: How can a fixed bias discover arbitrary truths?
  2. Analogy: How fixed advice can help you find things
  3. Example: Ockham's Method and Marble Counting
  4. Example: How Ockham is the most efficient method
  5. Theory: Truth-finding games

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