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2016
Bunge, Mario (2016): How Does It Work?. In: Philosophy of the Social Sciences 34 (2), S. 182-210. DOI: 10.1177/0048393103262550

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0048393103262550

Abstract: This article addresses the following problems: What is a mechanism, how canit be discovered, and what is the role of the knowledge of mechanisms in scientific explanation and technological control? The proposed answers are these. A mechanism is one of the processes in a concrete system that makes it what it is— for example, metabolism in cells, interneuronal connections in brains, work in factories and offices, research in laboratories, and litigation in courts of law. Because mechanisms are largely or totally imperceptible, they must be conjectured. Once hypothesized they help explain, because a deep scientific explanation is an answer to a question of the form, “How does it work, that is, what makes it tick—what are its mechanisms?” Thus, by contrast with the subsumption of particulars under a generalization, an explanation proper consists in unveiling some lawful mechanism, as when political stability is explainedby either coercion, public opinion manipulation, or democratic participation. Finding mechanisms satisfies not only the yearning for understanding, but also the need for control.

Keywords: explanation, function, mechanism, philosophy of the social sciences, process, system, systemism
2009
Picard, Rosalind W. (2009) : Robots with emotional intelligence: 2009 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI): 2009 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI): New York, NY, US: Association for Computing Machinery

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/1514095.1514098

Abstract: This keynote talk will illustrate a basic set of skills of emotional intelligence, how they are important for robots and agents that interact with people, and how our research at MIT addresses part of the problem of giving robots such skills. One of the most important skills is the ability to perceive and understand expressions of emotion, which I will highlight by demonstrating new technologies developed to read joint facial-head movements in real-time and associate these with complex affective-cognitive states, and technologies to read paralinguistic vocal cues from speech. I will also show some non-traditional ways robots might sense and learn about human emotion, and ways they can respond to what they sense that can help or hurt people. I will discuss social and ethical issues these technologies raise. Finally, I will present some new possibilities for robots to both learn from people and help teach skills of emotional intelligence to people, especially to those with nonverbal learning impairments who often want to learn these skills, including many people with diagnoses of autism spectrum disorders such as Aspergers Syndrome.

Keywords: Affective computing, affective-cognitive state, Artificial intelligence, Aspergers Syndrome, Autism, Autism spectrum disorder, behavioural sciences, computer aided instruction, deception detection, Educational robots, emotion expression, emotion perception, emotion recognition, emotion understanding, Emotional Intelligence, empathic technology, ethical aspects, ethical issue, facial expression recognition, facial-head movement, human emotion learning, human emotion sensing, human-robot interaction, ieee xplore, image motion analysis, intelligent robots, Laboratories, learning (artificial intelligence), Media, medical disorders, MIT, Moral & Ethik, nonverbal learning impairment, paralinguistic vocal cue, physiological sensing, prosody analysis, robot emotional intelligence, Robot sensing systems, skills teaching, social issue, speech processing, system, Teaching

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