A Philosophical Encounter by Aaron Sloman
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Description: In Proceedings 14th International Joint Conference on AI Montreal, August 1995: `A philosophical encounter: An interactive presentation of some of the key philosophical problems in AI and AI problems in philosophy.'
This file is http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/cogaff/ijcai95.text In Proceedings 14th International Joint Conference on AI Montreal, August 1995 John McCarthy's contribution to the same symposium (slightly updated in 1996) is here: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/aiphil.html and other relevant papers by him, can be found here: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/ ======================================================================= Postscript and pdf versions of this file can be fetched from http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/cogaff/Sloman.ijcai95.ps http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/cogaff/Sloman.ijcai95.pdf For more information on the Cognition and Affect project at Birmingham, see http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/cogaff.html Our online collection of papers, reports, seminar slides, etc. is in http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/cogaff/ NOTE (August 2001): A tutorial on Philosophical Foundations of AI was presented by Aaron Sloman and Matthias Scheutz at IJCAI01 in Seattle, August 2001. The tutorial slides are available online: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/ijcai01/ ======================================================================= A PHILOSOPHICAL ENCOUNTER Aaron Sloman School of Computer Science & Cognitive Science Research Centre The University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, England [email protected], http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs Abstract This paper, along with the following paper by John Mc- Carthy, introduces some of the topics to be discussed at the IJCAI95 event `A philosophical encounter: An interactive presentation of some of the key philosophical problems in AI and AI problems in philosophy.' Philosophy needs AI in order to make progress with many difficult questions about the nature of mind, and AI needs philosophy in order to help clarify goals, methods, and concepts and to help with several specific tech- nical problems. Whilst philosophical attacks on AI continue to be welcomed by a significant subset of the general public, AI defenders need to learn how to avoid philosophically na
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