Book details of 'Philosophy and Ai: Essays at the Interface'

Title	Philosophy and Ai: Essays at the Interface
Author(s)	Robert Cummins, John Pollock
ISBN	0262031809
Language	English
Published	January 1992
Publisher	MIT Press

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Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
Of the fields outside of computer science, psychology is the one most often linked with artificial intelligence work. Philosophy is perceived to be too impractical to be of use in the difficult search for a thinking machine. Yet one of the four classical divisions of philosophy is logic. The definition of intelligence itself may be most productively explored in the realm of epistemology (the study of knowledge). Philosophy, in the western world, has also become much more concerned with such "scientific" factors as testability, repeatability and proof. These essays may be at the interface between philosophy and artificial intelligence, but most approach it from the computerized side. (An advanced knowledge of number theory and predicate calculus is recommended.) The dozen papers cover a range of topics in the more theoretical aspects of AI. The quality, though, is high, and the work is well worth while even at this date. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1996
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