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On the Cognitive, Ethical, and Scientific Dimensions of Artificial Intelligence

Themes from IACAP 2016

  • Explores topics at the intersection between philosophy and computing
  • Features work presented at the 2016 annual meeting of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy
  • Contains multi-disciplinary coverage that will appeal to philosophers, ethicists, roboticists, and computer scientists

Part of the book series: Philosophical Studies Series (PSSP, volume 134)

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
  2. Introduction to This Volume

    • Don Berkich
    Pages 1-23
  3. Computation and Information

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
    2. The Notion of ‘Information’: Enlightening or Forming?

      • Francois Oberholzer, Stefan Gruner
      Pages 49-61
  4. Logic

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
    2. What Arrow’s Information Paradox Says (to Philosophers)

      • Mario Piazza, Marco Pedicini
      Pages 83-94
  5. Epistemology and Science

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
  6. Cognition and Mind

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167
    2. Telepresence and the Role of the Senses

      • Ingvar Tjostheim, Wolfgang Leister, J. A. Waterworth
      Pages 169-187
    3. Ontologies, Mental Disorders and Prototypes

      • Maria Cristina Amoretti, Marcello Frixione, Antonio Lieto, Greta Adamo
      Pages 189-204
    4. Virtual Information in the Light of Kant’s Practical Reason

      • Matteo Vincenzo d’Alfonso
      Pages 221-232
    5. A Kantian Cognitive Architecture

      • Richard Evans
      Pages 233-262
  7. Moral Dimensions of Human-Machine Interaction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 263-263

About this book

This edited volume explores the intersection between philosophy and computing. It features work presented at the 2016 annual meeting of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy. The 23 contributions to this volume neatly represent a cross section of 40 papers, four keynote addresses, and eight symposia as they cut across six distinct research agendas.

The volume begins with foundational studies in computation and information, epistemology and philosophy of science, and logic. The contributions next examine research into computational aspects of cognition and philosophy of mind. This leads to a look at moral dimensions of man-machine interaction as well as issues of trust, privacy, and justice.

This multi-disciplinary or, better yet, a-disciplinary investigation reveals the fruitfulness of erasing distinctions among and boundaries between established academic disciplines. This should come as no surprise. The computational turn itself is a-disciplinary and no former discipline, whether scientific, artistic, or humanistic, has remained unchanged. Rigorous reflection on the nature of these changes opens the door to inquiry into the nature of the world, what constitutes our knowledge of it, and our understanding of our place in it. These investigations are only just beginning. The contributions to this volume make this clear: many encourage further research and end with open questions.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Humanities, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, USA

    Don Berkich

  • Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

    Matteo Vincenzo d'Alfonso

About the editors

Matteo Vincenzo d'Alfonso is professor for History of Philosophy at the University of Ferrara. He works on German Idealism, mainly on the relationships between practical and theoretical reason in the philosphies of Kant, Fichte and Schopenhauer. Among his publications Vom Wissen zur Weisheit. Fichtes Wissenschaftslehre 2011, Rodopi, Amsterdam/New York 2005 and Schopenhauers Kollegnachschriften der Metaphysik- und Psychologievorlesungen E. G. Schulzes (Göttigen 1810-11), Ergon, Würzbürg 2009. 

Don Berkich is associate professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and currently serves as president of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy. Inspired by the diverse interdisciplinary interests of his colleagues in IACAP, his research centers on artificial agency and computability and complexity constraints on cognition.

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eBook USD 139.00
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Hardcover Book USD 179.99
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