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>From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Is dialectical thought an "informal logic"?
Message-ID: <5759@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 29 Nov 91 17:36:16 GMT
References: <5724@skye.ed.ac.uk> <5kH5BB1w164w@depsych.Gwinnett.COM>
Reply-To: jeff@aiai.UUCP (Jeff Dalton)
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In article <5kH5BB1w164w@depsych.Gwinnett.COM> rc@depsych.Gwinnett.COM (Richard Carlson) writes:
>jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) writes:
>> It may surprise you, but discourse is a real growth area in
>> AI right now.  (Or at least that's how it looks from Edinburgh.)
>
>What journals does it appear in? 

I'm not sure, because I'm not actually involved in such things
myself.  If I run across something, I'll try to remember to tell
you.

>It was in part to find such ongoing research enterprises that I
>started reading this Newsgroup.

Many people doing AI research think this newsgroup is worthless,
full of nothing by pointless, endless discussions of "boring"
philosophical issues.  You might try comp.ai, comp.ai.digest,
and comp.ai.nlang-know-rep.

Indeed, I wonder if anyone would be allowed to do an AI Phd on
a philosophical topic or whether it would be regarded as "not AI".


