Aspects of Artificial Intelligence

Description

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 psychology through issues in cognitive psychology and sociobiology (concerning the mental capabilities of other species) to ideas related to artificial intelligence and to computer science. While primary emphasis will be placed upon theoretical, conceptual and epistemological aspects of these problems and domains, empirical, experimental and methodological studies will also appear from time to time. The present volume illustrates the approach represented by this series. It addresses fundamental questions lying at the heart of artificial intelligence, including those of the relative virtues of computational and of non-computational conceptions of language and of mind, whether AI should be envisioned as a philosophical or as a scientific discipline, the theoretical character of patterns of inference and modes of argumenta­ tion (especially, defeasible and inductive reasoning), and the relations that may obtain between AI and epistemology. Alternative positions are developed in detail and subjected to vigorous debate in the justifiable expectation that - here as elsewhere - critical inquiry provides the most promising path to discovering the truth about ourselves and the world around us. lH.F. Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Semantics of Clocks....Pages 3-31 Front Matter....Pages 33-33 The Pseudorealization Fallacy and the Chinese Room Argument....Pages 35-53 In Praise of Narrow Minds: The Frame Problem....Pages 55-80 Syntactic Semantics: Foundations of Computational Natural-Language Understanding....Pages 81-131 Signs and Minds: An Introduction to the Theory of Semiotic Systems....Pages 133-161 Logic for the New AI....Pages 163-192 Front Matter....Pages 193-193 Artificial Intelligence is Philosophy....Pages 195-207 Artificial Intelligence as an Experimental Science....Pages 209-250 Defeasible Reasoning: A Philosophical Analysis in Prolog....Pages 251-288 When is Reasoning Nonmonotonic?....Pages 289-308 Artificial Intelligence and Effective Epistemology....Pages 309-322 Maintaining an Inductive Database....Pages 323-335 Front Matter....Pages 337-337 Automating Creativity....Pages 339-365 Back Matter....Pages 367-385