Cognitive Carpentry A Blueprint for How to Build a Person
| Author/creator | Pollock, John L. Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge : MIT Press |
| Description | 354 p. 09.000 x 06.000 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Summary | Annotation In his groundbreaking new book, John Pollock establishes an outpost at the crossroadswhere artificial intelligence meets philosophy. Specifically, he proposes a general theory ofrationality and then describes its implementation in OSCAR, an architecture for an autonomousrational agent he claims is the first AI system capable of performing reasoning that philosopherswould regard as epistemically sophisticated.A sequel to Pollock's How toBuild a Person, this volume builds upon that theoretical groundwork for the implementationof rationality through artificial intelligence. Pollock argues that progress in AI has stalledbecause of its creators' reliance upon unformulated intuitions about rationality. Instead, he basesthe OSCAR architecture upon an explicit philosophical theory of rationality, encompassing principlesof practical cognition, epistemic cognition, and defeasible reasoning. One of the results is theworld's first automated defeasible reasoner capable of reasoning in a rich, logicalenvironment.Underlying Pollock's thesis is a conviction that the tenets ofartifical intelligence and those of philosophy can be complementary and mutually beneficial. And,while members of both camps have in recent years grown skeptical of the very possibility of "symbolprocessing" AI, Cognitive Carpentry establishes that such an approach to AI canbe successful. A Bradford Book |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780262515740 |
| ISBN | 0262515741 (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780262515740 |
| Stock number | 0262515741 00015994 |
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