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SUMMARY:Ohio University Philosophy Forum Public Lecture: Dr. Cameron Buckn
 er
LOCATION:Scripps Hall 111\, 10 Park Place\, Athens\, Ohio 45701
DESCRIPTION:Thirty-First Annual Ohio University Philosophy Forum\n\nGenera
 tive Deep Neural Networks as models of imagination\, creativity\, and pla
 nning”\n\nA Public Lecture by Dr. Cameron Buckner\, University of Florida
 \n\nThursday\, November 5th\, 2026\, 4:00PM - 6:00PM\, Scripps Hall 111\n
 \nLECTURE ABSTRACT: In current debates in Artificial Intelligence\, deep 
 learning researchers have noted a historical kinship to the view in philo
 sophy called "empiricism"\, which holds that abstract knowledge is produc
 ed by learning from experience. Critics of deep learning have in turn tak
 en up mantle of philosophical "rationalism"\, which denies that the most 
 sophisticated forms of human cognition can be derived from learning. The 
 stakes of this philosophical debate are vividly illustrated in a disagree
 ment between the empiricist David Hume and the rationalist Jerry Fodor ov
 er the role that the imagination plays in rational cognition\, which cent
 ers on the question as to whether statistical learning procedures could b
 e bootstrapped to perform distinctively human forms of creativity. Fodor 
 alleged that empiricists are unable to explain how minds synthesize examp
 les for use in reasoning\, compose novel concepts from simpler concepts\,
  engage in consequence-sensitive planning\, or distinguish between causal
  and intentional relations amongst thoughts. Fodor applauds Hume for obse
 rving that rational cognition involves all these creative operations\, bu
 t criticizes Hume’s delegation of these operations to the faculty of the 
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