A computer program capable of acting intelligently in the world must have a general
representation of the world in terms of which its inputs are interpreted. Designing such a …

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

January 1, ' 1972 Page 1 MIT Artificial Intelligence Memo No. 252 January 1, ' 1972 '
ARTIFICIAL, INTELLIGENCE PROGRESS REPORT by Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert …

In a work lately published1, I have exhibited the application of a new and peculiar form of
Mathematics to the expression of the operations of the mind in reasoning. In the present …

I must start with an apologia. My original paper," Minds, Machines and Gödel", was written in
the wake of Turing's 1950 paper in Mind, and was intended to show that minds were not …

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 …

This chapter presents an overview of the issues that arise when logic is used in helping to
understand problems in intelligent reasoning and to guide the design of mechanized …

Yet another introduction to artificial intelligence? Don't we have enough of these already?
This is what I thought—before I held a copy of the book in my hands for the first time. In fact …

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 …

Ascribing mental qualities like beliefs, intentions and wants to a machine is sometimes
correct if done conservatively and is sometimes necessary to express what is known about …