The Metaphysical Nature of the Non-adequacy Claim An Epistemological Analysis of the Debate on Probability in Artificial Intelligence /

• Main Author: Piscopo, Carlotta (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, 464
• Subjects: Engineering.; Epistemology.; Artificial intelligence.; Computational intelligence.; Computational Intelligence.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

Over the last two decades, the field of artificial intelligence has experienced a separation into two schools that hold opposite opinions on how uncertainty should be treated. This separation is the result of a debate that began at the end of the 1960’s when AI first faced the problem of building ma...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Historical and philosophical background
• Uncertainty in AI and the debate on probability
• The non-adequacy claim in the literature
• The metaphysical character of the non-adequacy claim
• Claim.