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John J. McCarthy

Researcher at University of Kentucky

Publications -  391
Citations -  46678

John J. McCarthy is an academic researcher from University of Kentucky. The author has contributed to research in topics: Skeletal muscle & Muscle hypertrophy. The author has an hindex of 95, co-authored 376 publications receiving 43700 citations. Previous affiliations of John J. McCarthy include University of Massachusetts Amherst & Plymouth State University.

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Some philosophical problems from the standpoint of artificial intelligence

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the problem of reasoning about whether a strategy will achieve a goal in a deterministic world and present a method to construct a sentence of first-order logic which will be true in all models of certain axioms if and only if a certain strategy can achieve a certain goal.
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Circumscription—A form of non-monotonic reasoning

TL;DR: The authors formalizes such conjectural reasoning and shows that the objects they can determine to have certain properties or relations are the only objects that do, which is a common assumption in human and intelligent computer programs.

Faithfulness and reduplicative identity

TL;DR: The UMass and Rutgers Correspondence Theory seminars were particularly important for the development of this work as discussed by the authors, and the comments, questions, and suggestions from the participants in the (eventually joint) UMass/Rutgers correspondence theory seminars are particularly important.
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Recursive functions of symbolic expressions and their computation by machine, Part I

TL;DR: A programming system called LISP (for LISt Processor) developed for the IBM 704 computer by the Artificial Intelligence group at M.I.T. was designed to facilitate experiments with a proposed system called the Advice Taker, whereby a machine could be instructed to handle declarative as well as imperative sentences and could exhibit "common sense" in carrying out its instructions.
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Applications of circumscription to formalizing common-sense knowledge

TL;DR: A new and more symmetric version of the circumscription method of nonmonotonic reasoning first described in (McCarthy 1980) and some applications to formalizing common sense knowledge are presented.