Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!geacrd!cbs From: cbs@geacrd.UUCP (Chris Syed) Newsgroups: comp.society.futures Subject: philosophy and AI Message-ID: <292@geacrd.UUCP> Date: 6 Jun 88 16:06:22 GMT Article-I.D.: geacrd.292 Reply-To: cbs@geacrd.UUCP (Chris Syed) Distribution: na Organization: Geac Computers, Toronto CANADA Lines: 14 From the 'what I read on my summer vacation' corner... I'm halfway through a book which touches on the whole topic of the relationships among cognitive psych, AI, philosophy, etc. It's called _The Computational Philosophy of Science_, by Paul Thagard of SUNY Binghampton. Cambridge Mass : MIT Press, 1988. He goes into the utility of writing programs to simulate mental processes, & goes one beyond Kuhn xor Popper in proposing a method for the phil. of sci. It seems to be a pretty comprehensive & readable textbook, with tutorials at the back & a good bibliography. {Hey, I can't help it. I'm a librarian.} "The older a word, the deeper it reaches." - Wittgenstein. {mnetor,yunexus,utgpu} !geac!geacrd!cbs (Chris Syed)