Ultimate Objectives of Artificial Intelligence

A critical examination of the advancing intellectual developments in artificial intelligence and evaluation of their salient philosophical and psychological implications. This book contains a wealth of research and theory across major domains of cognition that support the broad intellectual artificial intelligence objective of developing a structured and detailed unified science of human and computational intelligence.

The significant philosophical and psychological implications that derive from pursuing an extraordinary intellectual objective of developing an abstract science of intelligence supported by specific theory and research will be of special interest to creative scholars in the disciplines of the sciences of cognition. By considering philosophical and psychological implications derived directly from current theory and research, this book is distinguished from speculative books lacking in intellectual grounding.

MORTON WAGMAN is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and is a Diplomate in Counseling Psychology, American Board of Professional Psychology. He was honored as Distinguished Psychologist by the American Psychological Association in 1990. His most recent books include The General Unified Theory of Intelligence (Praeger, 1997), Cognitive Science and the Symbolic Operations of Human and Artificial Intelligence (Praeger, 1997), Human Intellect and Cognitive Science (Praeger, 1996), The Sciences of Cognition (Praeger, 1995), Cognitive Psychology and Artificial Intelligence (Praeger, 1993), Cognitive Science and Concepts of Mind (Praeger, 1991), Artificial Intelligence and Human Cognition (Praeger, 1991), and The Dilemma and the Computer (Praeger, 1984).