| Doyle, J. "The foundations of psychology: a logico-computational inquiry into the concept of mind," in R. Cummins and J. Pollock, eds., Philosophy and AI, MIT, 1991. |
....activity, one step in the more general process of reasoning in time. However, he sees the choice as a matter of preference, to be attacked as a problem in decision theory. If this choice is prescribed by the meanings of epistemic utilities (a la Levi 1980) or ordered preferences (a la Wellman Doyle 1991), then Doyle and I disagree over the ampliative nature of belief construction. This is because a represented preference would force a particular belief to be constructed solely in virtue of the meanings of the preferences applied to the meanings of preference sentences. There would not necessarily ....
Doyle, J. "The foundations of psychology: a logico-computational inquiry into the concept of mind," in R. Cummins and J. Pollock, eds., Philosophy and AI, MIT, 1991.
....8 14 95 15 capture. But characterizing this phenomenon functionally in such a way that everyone s intuition is satisfied is hard to do. Within AI and cognitive science, different proposals are motivated by tacit but definite differences about how faithful to the biological phenomena we want to be. Doyle (1991) defines the task of an abstract intelligence as ideal rationality. The connection of this view to biology is rather minimal it could be seen as an idealization of some aspects of human cognitive behavior. Newell (1991) defines the task as one of being able to achieve goals by acquiring and ....
Doyle, J. (1991). " The Foundations of Psychology: A Logico-Computational Inquiry into the Concept of Mind" Philosophy and AI, Essays At the Interface, edited by Robert Cummins and John Pollock, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass, 1991, pg. 39-78.
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