My name is Miguel Sanchez and I plan to be doing edits on the page of Artificial Intelligence. Our future is gearing more and more towards machines running our lives so I felt it was a very moving topic. I have found three scholarly articles, listed below that will guide me in editing the wiki page on AI. I specifically plan to focus on the section of philosophy and ethics to add and expand the section on computationalism.
My scholarly articles are:
1) http://www.jstor.org/stable/20024925 edit
Bolter, David J. "Artificial Intelligence." Daedalus 113.3 (1983): 1-18. JSTOR. JSTOR. Web. 22 Feb. 2015.
Abstract: Nature Vs. Nurture The two main questions behind AI are; can the machine think, and is it intelligent? In the online article by David Bolter titles Artificial intelligence he focuses on the philosophical idea of Nature vs. Nurture. Philosophy is defined as the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, to which Nature vs. Nurture; the idea of how much of our understandings are hereditary and how much is taken from our surroundings seems to describe the idea of philosophy perfectly. Bolter opens up the article with a definition of AI research and how they hope to implement the mind of a human into a machine by mapping out its functions the same way that software works on a computer. He explains that the Department of Defense provides a great amount of support to develop these programs with obvious reasons why. Midway through his article he explains that the artificial intelligence goals have developed into machines achieving the complete assimilation of man and machine, while opponents of AI likeHerbert Dreyfus and Joseph Weizenbaum, find this completely absurd or dangerous or both. I have not gotten a chance to examine my other two articles but I will do so later on this week. New Sources For Wiki:
2) http://www.jstor.org/stable/27759223 edit
Henley, Tracy B. "Natural Problems And Artificial Intelligence." Behavior And Philosophy (1990): 43-56. JSTOR. JSTOR. Web. 22 Feb. 2015. - Abstract: What is AI? What is it Used for and the natural problems associated with it? Henley Opens up the article by referring to AI as major innovations for business endeavors everywhere because of its promise of automated expertise. Henley quickly describes how militaries are looking into funding the developments of expert systems, which are infinitely long term investments, and if they prove to be truly intelligent could serve unlimited possibilities for the military and certain industries. Intelligence in the military or industrial settings means bottom line performance for what gets the job done best, in relation to what the consumer is paying for the research and developments. Henley then goes on to display why our understanding of actual AI is misrepresented. First problem with our understanding of AI is that there is no solidified definition of what intelligence really is. And secondly, the use of expert systems in the military as well as in industrial environments have established what some may define as inadequate guidelines to judging expert systems correctly.
3) http://www.jstor.org/stable/192417 edit
Thagard, Paul. "Artificial Intelligence, Psychology, and the Philosophy of Discovery." Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (1982) 166-175 JSTOR. JSTOR, Web. 22 Feb. 2015. - Abstract: Displays the connection between AI and cognitive psychology. Begins by stating that relations relevant to discovery of AI are that science is done by human thinkers and second that the mind can be understood as a computational device in other words known as computationalism. Feels that it is in AI that mechanisms can be exactly specified and explored so AI is used as a theoretical device to develop ideas on cognitive science. Also demonstrates connections among artificial intelligence, psychology, and the philosophy of discovery. This article mainly focuses on answering the question of whether or not artificial intelligence is relevant to the philosophy of science. This article seems a bit biased in some pages but overall seems to provide a good basis for why AI is relevant to cognitive science which also revolves around the question of whether or not a human brain can be displayed as a computer program in machines.