Android Epistemology (American Association for Artificial Intelligence) - Hardcover

Ford, Kenneth M.; Glymour, Clark; Hayes, Patrick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262061848 ISBN 13: 9780262061841

Publisher: MIT Press, 1995

Synopsis

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. 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.

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Synopsis:

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 capabilities 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 endeavour: 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 16 essays by both computer scientists and philosophers collected in this volume includes substantial contributions to android epistemology, as well as examinations, defenses elaborations and challenges to the very idea.

About the Author:

Kenneth M. Ford is Founder and Director of the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) in Pensacola. Clark Glymour is Alumni University Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University and Senior Research Scientist at Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. He is the author of The Mind's Arrows: Bayes Nets and Graphical Causal Models in Psychology (MIT Press), Galileo in Pittsburgh, and other books. Patrick J. Hayes is a Senior Research Scientist at IHMC.

About this edition

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0262061848
• ISBN 13: 9780262061841
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 334