A formal theory of commonsense psychology: how people think people think

摘要

In introducing commonsense psychology, this book motivates readers to consider computational psychology. It describes the foundational building blocks of such computations. It provides not only purely mathematical predicates, but also those based on real-life psychological entities.The first part of the book is an introduction to common-sense psychology. Chapter 1 is a motivational discussion on the scientific approach to psychology. Chapter 2 explains the approach of having a common model between humans and computers, with details suitable to both. Chapter 3 describes the basic steps of formalizing common sense. The steps include gathering strategies, working on representation, preparing a draft of the formalization, and so on. Chapter 4 presents a catalog of synonymous words/phrases. The words/phrases are taken from various fields such as planning, scheduling, and so on.