Ebook: Artificial Intelligence: Its Scope and Limits
Author: James H. Fetzer (auth.)
- Tags: Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics), Philosophy of Science, Interdisciplinary Studies
- Series: Studies in Cognitive Systems 4
- Year: 1990
- Publisher: Springer Netherlands
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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This series will include monographs and collections of studies devoted to the investigation and exploration of knowledge, information, and data processing systems of all kinds, no matter whether human, (other) animal, or machine. Its scope is intended to span the full range of interests from classical problems in the philosophy of mind and philosophical psycholo gy through issues in cognitive psychology and sociobiology (concerning the mental capabilities of other species) to ideas related to artificial in telligence and to computer science. While primary emphasis will be placed upon theoretical, conceptual, and epistemological aspects of these prob lems and domains, empirical, experimental, and methodological studies will also appear from time to time. The perspective that prevails in artificial intelligence today suggests that the theory of computability defines the boundaries of the nature of thought, precisely because all thinking is computational. This paradigm draws its inspiration from the symbol-system hypothesis of Newell and Simon and finds its culmination in the computational conception of lan guage and mentality. The "standard conception" represented by these views is subjected to a thorough and sustained critique in the pages of this book. Employing a distinction between systems for which signs are signif icant for the users of a system and others for which signs are significant for use by a system, I have sought to define the boundaries of what AI, in principle, may be expected to achieve.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
What is Artificial Intelligence?....Pages 3-27
Symbol Systems and Semiotic Systems....Pages 29-60
Theories of Language and Mentality....Pages 61-89
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
The Nature of Knowledge....Pages 93-126
Varieties of Knowledge....Pages 127-162
Expert Systems....Pages 163-191
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
Knowledge Representation....Pages 195-232
Program Verification....Pages 233-267
Minds, Bodies, and Machines....Pages 269-303
Back Matter....Pages 305-339
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
What is Artificial Intelligence?....Pages 3-27
Symbol Systems and Semiotic Systems....Pages 29-60
Theories of Language and Mentality....Pages 61-89
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
The Nature of Knowledge....Pages 93-126
Varieties of Knowledge....Pages 127-162
Expert Systems....Pages 163-191
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
Knowledge Representation....Pages 195-232
Program Verification....Pages 233-267
Minds, Bodies, and Machines....Pages 269-303
Back Matter....Pages 305-339
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