He is a philosopher of science and the paper we wrote originated in the mid 90s when he published a book on ai and scientific method which summarised the state of the art of ai at the time and. Doi 105860 choice34 5726 corpus id 15056286 artificial intelligence and scientific method inproceedingsgillies1996artificialia titleartificial intelligence and scientific method authord gillies year1996 . Artificial intelligence and scientific method examines the remarkable advances made in the field of ai over the past twenty years discussing their profound implications for philosophy taking a clear non technical approach donald gillies focuses on two key topics within ai machine learning in the turing tradition and the development of logic programming and its connection with non monotonic logic. Artificial intelligence and scientific method examines the remarkable advances made in the field of ai over the past twenty years discussing their profound implications for philosophy taking a clear non technical approach donald gillies focuses on two key topics within ai machine learning in the turing tradition and the development of logic programming and its connection with non monotonic logic