Android Epistemology by Ken Ford, Clark Glymour, Patrick J. Hayes

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"Were they reborn into a modern university, Plato and Aristotle and Leibniz would most suitably take up appointments in the department of computer science."

Epistemology has traditionally been the study of human knowledge and rational change of human belief. Android epistemology is the exploration of the space of possible machines and their capacities for knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, desires, and for action in accord with their mental states. From the perspective of android epistemology, artificial intelligence and computational cognitive psychology form a unified endeavor: artificial intelligence explores any possible way of engineering machines with intelligent features, while cognitive psychology focuses on reverse engineering the most intelligent systems we know: us. The editors argue that contemporary android epistemology is the fruition of a long tradition in philosophical theories of knowledge and mind.

The sixteen essays by both computer scientists and philosophers collected in this volume include substantial contributions to android epistemology, as well as examinations, defenses, elaborations, and challenges to the very idea.

Contributors: Kalyan Shankar Basu. Margaret Boden. Selmer Bringsjord. Ronald L. Chrisley. Paul Churchland. Cary G. deBessonet. Ken Ford. James Gips. Clark Glymour. Antoni Gomila. Patrick J. Hayes. A. F. Umar Khan. Henry Kyburg. Marvin Minsky. Anatol Rapoport. Herbert Simon. Christian Stary. Lynn Andrea Stein.

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Contributing computer scientists and philosophers examine, defend, elaborate, and challenge the idea that machines can be designed to reason, create, and act on preferences and desires. They incorporate material from the fields of artificial intelligence, robotics, neural networks, linguistics, and cognitive psychology in discussions on the representationalist hypothesis, computer vision and pattern recognition, reflexive mental characteristics, and the robotic use of memory and imagination in planning goal-directed motion. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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• ISBN: 0262061848
• Publisher: AAAI Press
• Pub. Date: August 1995
• Condition:

Comments from the Seller: Menlo, California 1995 Hardcover Good. No Jacket Nice copy. little wear, some highlighting, a notation inside cover, and faint pen mark on cover. Makes a solid reading copy. Chapters entitled: The prehistory of android epistemology / Clark Glymour, Kenneth Ford & Patrick Hayes--Machine as mind / Herbert A. Simon--The vitalists' last stand / Anatol Rapoport--Could a robot be creative, and would we know? / Margaret A. Boden--From cognitive systems to persons / 8vo-over 7?"-9?" tall. Book.

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