Humans and Machines
Hélène Hagège, Christopher Dartnell, Éric Martin, Jean Sallantin · IGI Global eBooks · 2010
Old and recent theories stress that any understanding of the processes by which humans can learn requires to fully appreciate the relationships between the “nature of learning” and the “learning of nature.” From a constructivist viewpoint, acquiring knowledge is, like any human activity, dissociable neither from its underlying project nor from the knowing subject. The authors of this chapter relate the lessons from philosophy, psychology, didactics and ethics to their work in computational scientific discovery that aims at empowering learning machines with the task of assisting human researchers (Dartnell, Martin, Hagège, & Sallantin, 2008). The chapter concludes with didactical and ethical considerations.