Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Method

Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Method examines the remarkable advances made in the field of AI over the past twenty years discussing their profound implications for philosophy.Taking a clear non-technical approach Donald Gillies focuses on two key topics within AI: machine learning in the Turing tradition and the development of logic programming and its connection with non-monotonic logic. Demonstrating how current views on scientific method are challenged by this recent research he goes on to suggest a new framework for the study of logic. Finally Professor Gillies draws on work by such seminal thinkers as Bacon Gödel Popper Penrose and Lucas to address the hotly contested question of whether computers might become intellectually superior to human beings.