From Socrates to Expert Systems: The Limits of Calculative Rationality

Abstract

This paper examines the general epistemological assumptions of artificial intelligenc technology, and tecent work int he deelopment of expert systems. These sustems are limited because of a failure to recognize the real character of expert understnading, which is acquired as the fifth step of a five-step process. A review of the successs and failures of various specific expert system programs confirms this analysis. This is a paer included in .. an article