Android Epistemology

by Ford, Kenneth M.; Glymour, Clark N.; Hayes, Patrick J.

• ISBN13: 9780262061841
• ISBN10: 0262061848
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-10-01
• Publisher: Aaai Pr

Summary

" 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
The Prehistory of Android Epistemology	p. 3
Machine as Mind	p. 23
The Vitalists' Last Stand	p. 41
Could a Robot Be Creative - And Would We Know?	p. 51
From Cognitive Systems to Persons	p. 73
Could, How Could We Tell if, and Why Should - Androids Have Inner Lives?	p. 93
Android Epistemology: An Essay on Interpretation and Intentionality	p. 123
Taking Embodiment Seriously: Nonconceptual Content and Robotics	p. 141
Imagination and Situated Cognition	p. 167
Towards Constructivist Unification of Machine Learning and Parallel Distributed Processing	p. 183
Towards A Sentential 'Reality' for the Android	p. 215
Towards the Ethical Robot	p. 243
The Ethics of Autonomous Learning Systems	p. 253
How to Settle an Argument	p. 267
Machine Stereopsis: A Feedforward Network for Fast Stereo Vision with Movable Fusion Plane	p. 279
Alienable Rights	p. 307
Index	p. 313
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