Artificial Intelligence in Psychology Interdisciplinary Essays

ISBN: 9780262521406

页数: 198

定价: 27.00

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Preface
Thepaperscolieeted here -- all??? b itten beiw~n/982
and 1988 -- explore various aspects of the relevance of ar tiheial
intelligence to psychology.
B??????cause they focus on differing sp~ifics under this general
unifying theme??? they originally appea~d in a wide range of
sources and were addressed to distinct audiences Some are
drawn from professionalioumals: of philosophy??? of psychology???
and of biology Of the two written for a non-academic audience???
one appea~d in the non specialist journal of the New York
Academy of Sciences??? the other in a I~ture-series organ~ed by
the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London) A few we~
compo~d for deliberately interdisciplinary publications: vol+
umes on education??? on scientific th~ry??? and on adaptation in ill-
defined systems And one is an extract/rum a longer chapter in
my recent monograph??? Computer Models o~ Mind: Computational
Approaches in Theoretical Psychology [goden??? 1988J The only
paper written before 1982 (Chapter 5) dates from 1970??? and was
included also in my previous collection??? Minds and Mechanisms
{Boden??? 1981al.
The h???troductlon (Chapter 1) is newly written for this volume???
and provides a general philosophical context for the essays that
follow It includes a brlef sketch and discussion of eonn~tion-
???sin??? a r~ent development mentioned in ~veral chapters (espe
tinily Chapter 4) which is sometimes said -- wrongly to show
that artificial intelligence is psychologically irrelevant
I have made only minor textual revisions to the papers them-
selves. Contextual references to the original sources have been
removed: two brief insertions have been added to Chapter 5. and
~me long paragraphs divided; Chapter 7 is a conflation of two