Artificial Intelligence: The Case Against [Paperback]

Acknowledgements.  Introduction Rainer P. Born and Ilse Born-Lechleitner  1. Computational Psychology and Interpretation Theory Hilary Putnam  2. Minds, Brains and Programs John R. Searle  3. Misrepresenting Human Intelligence Hubert L. Dreyfus  4. Parameters of Cognitive Efficiency  A New Approach to Measuring Human Intelligence Friedhart Klix  5. The Decline and Fall of the Mechanist Metaphor S. G. Shanker  6. A Wittgensteinian View of Artificial Intelligence Otto Neumaier  7. What is Explained by AI Models? Alfred Kobsa  8. Split Semantics: Provocations Concerning Theories of Meaning and Philosophy in General Rainer P. Born.  Further Reading.  Index.

The purpose of this book, originally published in 1987, was to contribute to the advance of artificial intelligence (AI) by clarifying and removing the major sources of philosophical confusion at the time which continued to preoccupy scientists and thereby impede research. Unlike the vast majority of philosophical critiques of AI, however, each of the authors in this volume has made a serious attempt to come to terms with the scientific theories that have been developed, rather than attacking superficial straw men which bear scant resemblance to the complex theories that have been developed. For each is convinced that the philosophers responsibility is to contribute from his own special intellectual point of view to the progress of such an important field, rather than sitting in lofty judgement dismissing the efforts of their scientific peers.

The aim of this book is thus to correct some of the common misunderstandings of its subject. The technical term Artificial Intelligence has created considerable unl#Ï