Logic & Philosophy of Science Colloquium

Naturalizing Epistemology means creating the theoretical foundations and prototype methods for an effective science of knowledge system. Three emphases would distinguish scientific epistemology from existing disciplines. (1) The comparative reliability of alternative types of perceptual/cognitive systems with respect to abstract environment types. (2) The comparative analysis of "concept" sets which mediate object recognition and classification. (3) The establishment of correspondence meaning of signals via functional efficacy, with particular concern for the type of meaning in normative signals. I shall argue that the "Lewis-Skyrms" signaling game embedded in a spatially explicit, agent-based modelling framework allows systematic and independently replicable investigation of these questions.