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The Popperian Podcast #25 – Donald Gillies – ‘The Philosophy of Medical Discovery’

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How I Got From LSC to Focus on Medicine in My Later Career

I think the kind of general approach I learned at LSC as a graduate student. Poplar, Nakatosh and Coon continued to really apply that sort of general approach to the subject. Then I got interested in artificial intelligence - this was something Bopolektorz and Coon hadn't studied because it hadn't been invented. It was very interesting to look at what was going on in artificial intelligence and see whether the ideas of BopoleKtorz applied there or whether they needed to be modified. So that's an example. And then the last thing I got involved in was medicine. There were all sorts of practical reasons actually. In the 1990s, there was

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