Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence

Philosophy in the Face of Artificial Intelligence

The idea of Artificial Intelligence has captured our collective imagination for many decades. Can behavior that we think of as intelligent be replicated on a machine? If so, what consequences could this have for society? And what does it tell us about ourselves as human beings? Besides being a long-running topic of philosophical reflection and science fiction, AI is also a well-established scie...

Mind Design II : Philosophy, Psychology, Artificial Intelligence

Coherence: Insights from Philosophy, Jurisprudence and Artificial Intelligence

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Against the Global Replacement : On the Application of the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Life

This paper is a complement to the recent wealth of literature suggesting a strong philosophical relationship between artificial life (A-Life) and artificial intelligence (AI). I seek to point out where this analogy seems to break down, or where it would lead us to draw incorrect conclusions about the philosophical situation of A-Life. First, I sketch a thought experiment (based on the work of T...

Interactions Between Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence: The Role of Intuition and Non-Logical Reasoning in Intelligence

This paper echoes, from a philosophical standpoint, the claim of McCarthy and Hayes that Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence have important relations. Philosophical problems about the use of ’intuition’ in reasoning are related, via a concept of analogical representation, to problems in the simulation of perception, problem-solving and the generation of useful sets of possibilities in consid...