This paper echoes, from a philosophical standpoint, the claim of McCarthy and Hayes that
Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence have important relations. Philosophical problems about …

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Every artificial-intelligence research project needs a working definition of" intelligence", on
which the deepest goals and assumptions of the research are based. In the project …

It seems to me that the ingredients of most theories both in artificial intelligence and in
psychology have been on the whole too minute, local, and unstructured to account-either …

Any AI reasoning system with reasonable ambitions must have a way of describing,
specifying or representing situations, states of affairs or wot not. Moreover, any AI reasoner …

How is it possible for a physical thing? a person, an animal, a robot? to extract knowledge of
the world from perception and then exploit that knowledge in the guidance of successful …

The author, a naturalist, aims to show that, contrary to what G. Bealer (1987, 1993) and
others have argued, it is possible to give a naturalistic account of the epistemology of …

Artificial intelligence methods may be used to model human intelligence or to build
intelligent (expert) computer systems. AI has already reached the stage of human simulation …

This paper examines the relationship between methodological naturalism and the standard
practice within philosophy of constructing theories on the basis of our intuitions about …

This article asserts that some general AIs are incomprehensible to humans and that
computers are innately incapable of performing certain human cognitive activities, including …