Abstract. Adaptive evolution is often described as natural selection acting on the genetic variation that affects ecological performance. This description

Jun Otsuka’s trialist ontology posits the causal model as a third-layer entity representing inter-world laws. This paper challenges Otsuka’s framework by focusing on a key yet overlooked element, abdu...

Prof. Jun Otsuka, Ph.D. (CAS Fellow/Zen University, Japan) | Chair: Dr. Tom Sterkenburg (CAS Young Center/LMU)

Prof. Jun Otsuka, Ph.D. (CAS Fellow/Zen University, Japan) | Chair: Dr. Tom Sterkenburg (CAS Young Center/LMU)

"Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind." — Imre Lakatos Statistics isn't just a collection of mathematical techniques—it'...

Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - The Role of Mathematics in Evolutionary Theory

This article proposes a new conceptual framework called collective predictive coding as a model of science (CPC-MS) to formalize and understand scientific activities. Building on the idea of CPC originally developed to explain symbol emergence, CPC-MS ...

Jun Otsuka’s book Thinking about Statistics (Routledge, 2023 ) bridges the gap between statistics and philosophy. It does this by delineating the conceptual ...

Session 2 Fall 2024: What does it mean to understand AI?

Jun Otsuka’s excellent book, Thinking about Statistics - the Philosophical Foundations (Otsuka 2023) is mostly organized around the idea that different statistical approaches can be illuminated by lin...