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Article Dans Une Revue Stanford Humanities Review Année : 1995

The Hume machine: Can associations do more than formal rules ?

Bruno Latour
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In this article, we push the cognitive and information-science consequences of the new sociology of science and technology as far as they will go. Since there is no coherence stronger than a circumstantial network condensed or summarized into forms, structures and microtheories; since the computer, once it has shed its anthropomorphic and epistemological projections, is already capable of dealing with significant association networks; and since there are no computer programs on the market for researchers in the social sciences who deal with a great number of heterogeneous textual sources, we propose to construct a machine capable of revitalizing Hume and Condillac’s unfashionable philosophical program of associationism, by giving it the material base it hitherto lacked.
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hal-04168056 , version 1 (21-07-2023)

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Geneviève Teil, Bruno Latour. The Hume machine: Can associations do more than formal rules ?. Stanford Humanities Review, 1995, 4 (2), pp.47-66. ⟨hal-04168056⟩
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