Following work this past spring in C.S. Peirce's logic (Existential Graphs) and theories of logic and applied reasoning (applied epistemology generally), my venture into AI/ML engineering through applied concept development in AI/ML R&D has led me straight back to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.
AI/ML engineers marvel in wonder at Kantian applications to the field as much as they do Peircean ones.
I continue on in demonstrating to the so-called "real world" sectors of logic-based AI and computer programming the sheer value of philosophy. I swear, if these people had just been open to understanding the value of philosophy in the first place (which obviously includes logic and epistemology), then maybe we wouldn't be in the mess we are in now with AI to begin with.
Anyway, the plan is a summer Reading Group tentatively titled "The Metaphysics of Reasoning: A Formal Systems-Phenomenological Approach to Mapping AI Transcendental Ontology" where, among other things, including excerpts from C.S. Peirce and Immanuel Kant, we'll be reading Kant and Artificial Intelligence (eds. Kim & Schönecker).
