Thinking Clearly .

With Sean Bechofer, I am teaching a class (or “module” as we say over here) on Knowledge Representation. It’s a “third year” (i.e., senior undergraduate) class. I don’t know what to expect.

However, it’s the first class I’m doing as a lecturer, in the UK, and in CS! Verra exciting. (I’d prefer philosophy, still, I think. I was tempted to talk a bit about the Meno, but I don’t want the course to get canceled.)

The class meets at 16:00 (4PM) Thurs and Fri at 9:00. I have no idea why.

I’ve done my first two lectures: the first is a general intro, and the second presents What is a Knowledge Representation?. I thought the first lecture went better than the second, though it all needs fine tuning and both were fine. (50 minutes is not a long time; at all).

I think the What is a KR paper is a great read. If you are reading this post, you probably ought to read that paper. It pounds on some key insights (e.g., a KR is not a data structure; KR is a medium for human expression; etc.) which often get forgotten, or were never known.

Meno. Can you tell me, Socrates, whether virtue is acquired by teaching or by practice; or if neither by teaching nor practice, then whether it comes to man by nature, or in what other way?

In what sense do we value freedom?

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