1st Edition

Before, After, and Beyond AlphaGo

By Woosuk Park Copyright 2026
238 Pages 76 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

238 Pages 76 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

This book is a unique exploration designed for both philosophers and Baduk (Go, Weiqi) players, bridging two worlds that rarely intersect. AlphaGo, the groundbreaking AI, has been both a challenge and a revelation for these communities. As someone who belongs to both groups, the author feels a profound responsibility to connect them and share insights that resonate across disciplines. In Part... Read more

Chapter 1 Introduction

PART I Before AlphaGo

Chapter 2 Abduction and Thought Experiment in Baduk

Chapter 3 Counterfactual Reasoning in Baduk: A Preliminary Survey

Chapter 4 Belief Revision in Baduk: A Preliminary Discussion

PART II After AlphaGo

Chapter 5 Enthymematic Interaction in Baduk

Chapter 6 When Is a Strategy in Games?

Chapter 7 AlphaGo’s Decision Making

With S. Kim, G. Kim, and J. Kim

Chapter 8 How to Make AlphaGo’s Children Explainable?

PART III Beyond AlphaGo

Chapter 9 What Proto-Logic Could Not Be

Chapter 10 On Abducing the Axioms of Mathematics

Epilogue

Biography

Woosuk Park is currently Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, S. Korea. He received a Ph.D. degree from State University of New York at Buffalo. He has published articles in international journals, including Synthese, Erkenntnis, Foundations of Science, Review of Metaphysics, and Axiomathes. His most recent books in English are Abduction in Context and Philosophy’s Loss of Logic to Mathematics Currently, he is most interested in abductive cognition, implicit definition, and philosophy of board games. As one of the advisors of the International Society of Go Studies, he is especially enthusiastic about promoting multidisciplinary scientific research on Go.