The Logical Aspect of the Frame Problem and Its Implications: Temporal Reasoning and Relevance

https://doi.org/10.25100/pfilosofica.v0i55.12082
Razonamiento temporal y relevancia

Article Sidebar

PDF (Español) XML (Español)

Published: Sep 15, 2022
Updated: 2022-09-15
Issue: No. 55 (2022): Praxis Filosófica No. 55 julio-diciembre 2022
Section Articles

Publcation metrics

383




 


Main Article Content

Authors

  María Inés Silenzi Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales (IIESS). Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). Universidad Nacional del Sur (UNS)
  Luis Gonzalo García García Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Abstract

Although the so-called frame problem generated multiple debates at the end of last century, it is still a fundamental problem for the advancement of Cognitive Science, in general, and for Artificial Intelligence, in particular. In this work, and restricting us to the logical aspect of the problem, we postulate that the actual and underlying discussion to this aspect revolves around how to determine what does not change in terms of actions and properties into a formal logical system. It is on this aspect, and based on its difficulties (i) definitional and (ii) resolutive, that in this work we will argue that the so-called "temporary criterion" can not only be estimated as one of the main theoretical requirements to (i) solve it, but also to (ii) make its main difficulty more explicit, namely, “what is relevant” in the face of change over time. In this way, we argue that temporal-logical reasoning is necessary to construct any fully satisfactory solution to the logical aspect of the frame problem understood as the way in which, immediately, we determine relevance in the face of change.


 

Keywords
  • Frame problem
  • Logical aspect
  • Temporal reasoning
  • Relevance
  • Change
Author Biographies

María Inés Silenzi, Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales (IIESS). Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). Universidad Nacional del Sur (UNS)

María Inés Silenzi is a Doctor, graduate and professor in Philosophy from the National University of the South (UNS, Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires, Argentina). She currently develops research tasks as Associate Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) and teaching tasks at the Universidad Nacional del Sur in the chair "Epistemology and research methodology". Her research areas are oriented towards the philosophy of Cognitive Sciences in general, and more particularly towards those philosophical problems pending investigation such as the frame problem. She is the director of the research project "Analysis of the various uses of empirical evidence to support or attack philosophical positions". affective neuroscience and phenomenology” and the research project (UNS) “Rationality and deliberation: Philosophical foundations and formal models”.

Luis Gonzalo García García , Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Luis Gonzalo García García has a degree in Philosophy from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP), and a master's degree in Education and ICT from the same university. He is currently a member of the Mind and Language Interdisciplinary Research Group (PUCP) and the Art and Aesthetics Research Group (GAE-PUCP). He has developed his undergraduate thesis on the frame problem and researches topics related to Artificial Intelligence, philosophy of mind, logic, philosophy of science and aesthetics. He has been working as a lecturer in logic, philosophy of science, ancient and medieval philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP).

References

Bell, J. (1990). Why the frame problem is not a problem. AI Communications 3(1), 3-10.

Brown, F. M. (Ed.). (1987). The frame problem in artificial intelligence: Proceedings of the 1987 workshop. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.

Chow, S. J. (2013). What’s the problem with the frame problem? Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 4(2), 309-331. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-013-0137-4

Crockett, L. (1994). The Turing test and the frame problem. AI´s mistaken understanding of intelligence. Ablex. http://www.lib.ysu.am/disciplines_bk/604e61ec847b6c36a986726209a2c099.pdf

De Sousa, R. (2011). Emotional Truth. Oxford University Press.

Dennett, D. (1984). Cognitive wheels: The frame problem of AI. En C. Hookway (Ed.), Minds, machines & evolution (pp. 129-152). Cambridge University Press. http://cinc.uaem.mx/~bruno/material/dennet_93_cognitiveWheels.pdf

Evans, D. (2002). The search hypothesis of emotions. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 53(4), 497–509. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/53.4.497

Fodor, J. (2008). LOT 2: The language of thought revisited. Oxford Clarendon Press.

Haselager, W. & van Rappard, J. (1998). Connectionism, systematicity, and the frame problem. Minds and machines, 8(2), 161-179. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008281603611

Haugeland, J. (1985). Artificial intelligence: The very idea. The MIT Press.

Ketelaar, T. & Todd, P. M. (2001). Framing our thoughts: Ecological rationality as evolutionary psychology’s answer to the frame problem. En H. R. Holcomb III (Ed.), Conceptual challenges in evolutionary psychology: Innovative research strategies (pp. 179-211). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0618-7_7

Majeed, R. (2019). What can information encapsulation tell us about emotional rationality? En L. Candiotto (Ed.), The value of emotions for knowledge (pp. 51-69). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15667-1_3

McCarthy J.& Hayes P. (1969). Some philosophical problems from the standpoint of artificial intelligence. En B. Meltzer, & D. Michie (Eds.), Machine intelligence 4 (pp. 463-502). Edinburgh University Press. http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/mcchay69.pdf

Morgenstern, L. (1996). The problem with solutions to the frame problem. En K. Ford, & Z. Pylyshyn (Eds.), The robot´s dilemma revisited: The frame problem in AI (pp. 99-133). Ablex. http://www-formal.stanford.edu/leora/fp.pdf

Mueller, E. T. (2006). Commonsense reasoning. Morgan Kaufmann. http://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-369388-4.X5054-1

Øhrstrøm, P., & Hasle, P. (1995). Temporal logic: From ancient ideas to artificial intelligence. Kluwer Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-37463-5

Prior, A. (1967). Past, present and future. Clarendon Press.

Pylyshyn, Z. W. (Ed.). (1987). The robot’s dilemma: The frame problem in artificial intelligence. Ablex.

Samuels, R. (2010). Classical computationalism and the many problems of cognitive relevance. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 41(3), 280–293. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2010.07.006

Shanahan, M. (1997). Solving the frame problem: A mathematical investigation of the common sense law of inertia. MIT Press.

Shanahan, M. (2016). The frame problem. En E. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/frame-problem/

Shanahan, M. (2019). Artificial intelligence. En M. Sprevak, & M. Colombo (Eds.), The routledge handbook of the computational mind (pp. 91-100). Routledge.

Shoham, Y. (1987). What is the frame problem? En F. Brown (Ed.), The frame problem in artificial intelligence (pp. 5-21). Morgan Kaufman Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-934613-32-3.50005-8

Silenzi, M. I. (2015). ¿En qué consiste el problema de marco? Confluencias entre distintas interpretaciones. Eidos, (22), 49-80. https://rcientificas.uninorte.edu.co/index.php/eidos/article/view/6381

Silenzi, M. I. (2021). Lógica temporal métrica aplicada al problema de marco [Frame problem] en inteligencia artificial. [Tesis de licenciatura, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú]. Repositorio Digital de Tesis y Trabajos de Investigación PUCP. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/20842

Sprevak, M. (2005). The frame problem and the treatment of prediction. En L. Magnani, & R. Dossena (Eds.), Computing, philosophy and cognition (pp. 349-359). King’s College Publications. https://marksprevak.com/pdf/paper/Sprevak---frame%20problem%20and%20prediction.pdf

Stein, L. A. (1990). An atemporal frame problem. International Journal of Expert Systems, 3(4), 371-381.

Vila, L. (2005). Formal theories of time and temporal incidence. En M. Fisher, D. Gabbay, & L. Vila (Eds.), Handbook of temporal reasoning in artificial intelligence (pp. 1-24). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1574-6526(05)80003-3

Xu, Y. & Wang, P. (2012). The frame problem, the relevance problem, and a package solution to both. Synthese, 187, 43–72. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41681621

How to Cite
Silenzi, M. I., & García García , L. G. . (2022). The Logical Aspect of the Frame Problem and Its Implications: Temporal Reasoning and Relevance. Praxis Filosófica, (55), 69–90. https://doi.org/10.25100/pfilosofica.v0i55.12082
Usage statistics

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.
Received 2022-04-10
Accepted 2022-07-29
Published 2022-09-15
Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

De acuerdo con nuestra política (Licencia Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) los artículos presentados y sometidos al proceso editorial en la revista Praxis Filosófica no tienen costo alguno para sus autores ni retribuciones económicas para la revista. El artículo de carácter inédito, producto de investigación o de algún proyecto que se presente a Praxis Filosófica, no podrá estar sometido a otro proceso de publicación durante el proceso que se lleve en nuestra revista.