According to Clifford Geertz, the purpose of anthropology is not explain culture but explicate it. That should cause us rethink our relationship with machine learning. It is, we contend, perfectly possible that learning algorithms, which are unable explain, and could even be unexplainable themselves, can still critical use in a process explication. Thus, report on an experiment anthropological ...

The writer explores Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, where Smith presents a rich and provocative account of morality. The writer offers an explication of Smith's moral psychology as a stage theory of moral development, with the intention of generating critical points on both mattes of detail and larger implications.