Aspects of Artificial Intelligence

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Prologue

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Semantics of Clocks

      • Brian Cantwell Smith

      Pages 3-31

3. Ontological Foundations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33

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   2. The Pseudorealization Fallacy and the Chinese Room Argument

      • James H. Moor

      Pages 35-53

   3. In Praise of Narrow Minds: The Frame Problem

      • J. Christopher Maloney

      Pages 55-80

   4. Syntactic Semantics: Foundations of Computational Natural-Language Understanding

      • William J. Rapaport

      Pages 81-131

   5. Signs and Minds: An Introduction to the Theory of Semiotic Systems

      • James H. Fetzer

      Pages 133-161

   6. Logic for the New AI

      • Bruce Maclennan

      Pages 163-192

4. Epistemological Dimensions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193

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   2. Artificial Intelligence is Philosophy

      • Clark Glymour

      Pages 195-207

   3. Artificial Intelligence as an Experimental Science

      • Bruce G. Buchanan

      Pages 209-250

   4. Defeasible Reasoning: A Philosophical Analysis in Prolog

      • Donald Nute

      Pages 251-288

   5. When is Reasoning Nonmonotonic?

      • Terry L. Rankin

      Pages 289-308

   6. Artificial Intelligence and Effective Epistemology

      • Kevin T. Kelly

      Pages 309-322

   7. Maintaining an Inductive Database

      • Richard A. Vaughan

      Pages 323-335

5. Epilogue

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 337-337

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   2. Automating Creativity

      • Richard Scheines

      Pages 339-365

6. Back Matter

   Pages 367-385

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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 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.

• Chinese room
• Prolog
• artificial intelligence
• epistemology
• intelligence
• philosophy
• semantics

• Dept. of Philosophy and Humanities, University of Minnesota, Duluth, USA

  James H. Fetzer

Policies and ethics