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Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Method Donald Gillies (Professor of the Philosophy of Science and Mathematics, Professor of the Philosophy of Science and Mathematics, King's College, London)

Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Method By Donald Gillies (Professor of the Philosophy of Science and Mathematics, Professor of the Philosophy of Science and Mathematics, King's College, London)

Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Method by Donald Gillies (Professor of the Philosophy of Science and Mathematics, Professor of the Philosophy of Science and Mathematics, King's College, London)

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Examining the advances made in the field of Artificial Intelligence, this work discusses their profound implications for philosophy. It shows how views on scientific method are challenged. Drawing on work by seminal thinkers, it addresses the question of whether computers might become intellectually superior to human beings.

Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Method Summary

Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Method by Donald Gillies (Professor of the Philosophy of Science and Mathematics, Professor of the Philosophy of Science and Mathematics, King's College, London)

Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Method examines the remarkable advances made in the field of AI over the past twenty years, discussing their profound implications for philosophy. Taking a clear, non-technical approach, Donald Gillies focuses on two key topics within AI: machine learning in the Turing tradition and the development of logic programming and its connection with non-monotonic logic. Demonstrating how current views on scientific method are challenged by this recent research, he goes on to suggest a new framework for the study of logic. Finally, Professor Gillies draws on work by such seminal thinkers as Bacon, Goedel, Popper, Penrose, and Lucas to address the hotly contested question of whether computers might become intellectually superior to human beings.

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An old-fashioned monograph: tightly argued, heavily referenced. * New Scientist *
if you are not a philosopher this book is worth reading - but for interest alone ... If you know any philosophers, however, you should make sure they read it. * Mike James, Scientific Computing World, June 1997 *
'...Donald Gillies's new book is a worthy addition to the literature...a fascinating and occasionally bold investigation of an ongoing, two-way interaction...Gillies has produced an insightful, well-written book, which will be welcomed as a useful contribution to contemporary debate by philosophers of logic, philosophers and historians of science, philosophers of AI, and AI researchers 'on the ground...' * Michael Wheeler, Univ. of Oxford. *

About Donald Gillies (Professor of the Philosophy of Science and Mathematics, Professor of the Philosophy of Science and Mathematics, King's College, London)

Donald Gillies is Professor of the Philosophy of Science and Mathematics at King's College, London. His books include An Objective Theory of Probability (1973), Revolutions in Mathematics (1992), and Philosophy of Science in the Twentieth Century (1993). He was the editor of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science from 1982 to 1985.

Table of Contents

Preface ; Acknowledgements ; Chapter 1: The Inductivist Controversy, or Bacon versus Popper ; 1.1 Bacon's Inductivism ; 1.2 Popper's Falsificationism ; 1.3 Kepler's Discovery of the Laws of Planetary Motion ; 1.4 The Discovery of the Sulphonamide Drugs ; Chapter 2: Machine Learning in the Turing Tradition ; 2.1 The Turing Tradition ; 2.2 The Practical Problem: Expert Systems and Feigenbaum's Bottleneck ; 2.3 Attribute-based Learning, Decision Trees, and Quinlan's ID3 ; 2.4 GOLEM as an example of Relational Learning ; 2.5 Bratko's summary of the successes of Machine Learning in the Turing Tradition, 1992 ; 2.6 GOLEM's Discovery of a Law of Nature ; Chapter 3: How Advances in Machine Learning affect the Inductivist Controversy ; 3.1 Bacon's Example of Heat ; 3.2 The Importance of Falsification ; 3.3 Bacon's Method has only recently come to be used ; 3.4 The Need for Background Knowledge ; Chapter 4: Logic and Programming and a New Framework for Logic ; 4.1 The Development of PROLOG ; 4.2 PROLOG as a Non-Monotonic Logic ; 4.3 Two Examples of Translations from One Logical System to Another ; 4.4 Logic = Inference + Control ; 4.5 PROLOG introduces Control into Deductive Logic ; 4.6 PROLOG and Certainty. Is Logic a priori or empirical? ; Chapter 5: Can there be an Inductive Logic? ; 5.1 The Divergence between Deductive and Inductive Logic (up to the early 1970s) ; 5.2 Inductive Logic as Inference + Control ; 5.3 Confirmation Values as Control in a Deductive Logic ; 5.4 The Empirical Testing of Rival Logics ; Chapter 6: Do Godel's Incompleteness Theorems place a Limit on Artificial Intelligence? ; 6.1 Anxieties caused by Advances in AI ; 6.2 Informal Exposition of Godel's Incompleteness Theorems ; 6.3 The Lucas Argument ; 6.4 Objections to the Lucas Argument: i) Possible Limitations on Self-Knowledge ; 6.5 Objections to the Lucas Argument: ii) Possible Additions of Learning Systems ; 6.6 Why Advances in Computing are more likely to Stimulate Human Thinking than to Render it Superfluous ; Notes References Index

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GOR007634151
9780198751595
0198751591
Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Method by Donald Gillies (Professor of the Philosophy of Science and Mathematics, Professor of the Philosophy of Science and Mathematics, King's College, London)
Donald Gillies (Professor of the Philosophy of Science and Mathematics, Professor of the Philosophy of Science and Mathematics, King's College, London)
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