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Clark Glymour

Clark Glymour is Senior Research Scientist at IHMC and Alumni University Professor of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University.

Titles by This Author

The Mind's Arrows

Bayes Nets and Graphical Causal Models in Psychology
By Clark Glymour

In recent years, small groups of statisticians, computer scientists, and philosophers have developed an account of how partial causal knowledge can be used to compute the effect of actions and how causal relations can be learned, at least by computers. The representations used in the emerging theory are causal Bayes nets or graphical causal models.

Causation, Prediction, and Search, Second Edition

By Peter Spirtes, Clark Glymour and Richard Scheines

What assumptions and methods allow us to turn observations into causal knowledge, and how can even incomplete causal knowledge be used in planning and prediction to influence and control our environment? In this book Peter Spirtes, Clark Glymour, and Richard Scheines address these questions using the formalism of Bayes networks, with results that have been applied in diverse areas of research in the social, behavioral, and physical sciences.

Thinking Things Through

An Introduction to Philosophical Issues and Achievements
By Clark Glymour

Titles by This Editor

Thinking about Android Epistemology

Edited by Kenneth M. Ford, Clark Glymour and Patrick Hayes

For millennia, "from Aristotle to almost yesterday," the great problems of philosophy have all been about people: questions of epistemology and philosophy of mind have concerned human capacities and limitations. Still, say the editors of Thinking about Android Epistemology, there should be theories about other sorts of minds, other ways that physical systems can be organized to produce knowledge and competence.

Android Epistemology

Edited by Kenneth M. Ford, Clark Glymour and Patrick Hayes

Android epistemology is the exploration of the space of possible machines and their capacities for knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, desires, and for action in accord with their mental states.