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Alan Love
Alan Love is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Philosophy and Winton Chair in the Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, as well as the Director of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science.
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Purpose is not only a question of meaning. For philosopher Alan Love, it is also a question of life, agency, function, and scientific method.
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Science used to be broad because so few people could afford to do it. Now that more people can participate, the structures need to evolve too. Philosopher Alan Love explains.
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Our ability to build machine intelligence has outrun our ability to understand it. Professor Alan Love, director of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, thinks biology can help close that gap.
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We’ve been asking whether we have a purpose. Philosopher Alan Love says the better question is: what kind of purpose can we identify, document, and explain?
