chertok%ucbkim%Berkeley@sri-unix.UUCP (09/20/84)
From: chertok%ucbkim@Berkeley (Paula Chertok)
BERKELEY COGNITIVE SCIENCE PROGRAM
Fall 1984
Cognitive Science Seminar -- IDS 237A
TIME: Tuesday, September 25, 11 - 12:30
PLACE: 240 Bechtel Engineering Center
DISCUSSION: 12:30 - 2 in 200 Building T-4
SPEAKER: John McCarthy, Computer Science Department,
Stanford University
TITLE: What is common sense thinking?
ABSTRACT: Common sense thinking includes a certain
collection of knowledge and certain reason-
ing ability. Expert knowledge including
scientific knowledge fits into the framework
provided by common sense. Common sense
knowledge includes facts about the conse-
quences of actions in the physical and
psychological worlds, facts about the pro-
perties of space, time, causality and physi-
cal and social objects. Common sense rea-
soning includes both logical deductive and
various kinds of non-monotonic reasoning.
Much common sense knowledge is not readily
expressible in words, and much that can be
usually isn't.
The lecture will attempt to survey common
sense knowledge and common sense reasoning.
It will be oriented toward expressing the
knowledge in languages of mathematical logic
and expressing the reasoning as deduction
plus formal non-monotonic reasoning.