I think you have hit upon the crux of the matter in your last paragraph: the authors are in no way trying to find the best solution. I can’t speak for the authors you cite, but the questions asked by philosophers are different than, “what is the best answer?” They are more along the lines of, “How do we generate our answers anyways?” and “What might follow?” This may lead to an admittedly harmful lack of urgency in updating beliefs.
Because I enjoy making analogies: Science provides the map of the real world; philosophy is the cartography. An error on a map must be corrected immediately for accuracy’s sake; an error in efficient map design theory may take a generation or two to become immediately apparent.
Finally, you use Pearl as the champion of AI theory, but he is equally a champion of philosophy. As misguided as your citations may have been (as philosophers), Pearl’s work is equally well-guided in redeeming philosophers. I don’t think you have sufficiently addressed the cherrypicking charge: if your cited articles are strong evidence that philosophers don’t consider each other’s viewpoints, then every article in which philosophers do sufficiently consider each other’s viewpoints is weak evidence of the opposite.
I think you have hit upon the crux of the matter in your last paragraph: the authors are in no way trying to find the best solution. I can’t speak for the authors you cite, but the questions asked by philosophers are different than, “what is the best answer?” They are more along the lines of, “How do we generate our answers anyways?” and “What might follow?” This may lead to an admittedly harmful lack of urgency in updating beliefs.
Because I enjoy making analogies: Science provides the map of the real world; philosophy is the cartography. An error on a map must be corrected immediately for accuracy’s sake; an error in efficient map design theory may take a generation or two to become immediately apparent.
Finally, you use Pearl as the champion of AI theory, but he is equally a champion of philosophy. As misguided as your citations may have been (as philosophers), Pearl’s work is equally well-guided in redeeming philosophers. I don’t think you have sufficiently addressed the cherrypicking charge: if your cited articles are strong evidence that philosophers don’t consider each other’s viewpoints, then every article in which philosophers do sufficiently consider each other’s viewpoints is weak evidence of the opposite.