Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence 4219-SB065
Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence – Introduction
I History, origins, background
Metaphysics – dualism and monism. The Ancient concepts of mind
Modern philosophy of mind: Hobbes, Descartes, Spinoza
L'homme machine – The Man – machine. La Mettrie and the Enlightenment. Materialists and Romantics.
20th Century Philosophy of Mind. Turing, Searle, Chalmers, Dennett
II Fundamental problems
What is intelligence? What is thinking?
What is person? Can machine be a person?
What is consciousness?
Weak and strong AI
III Ethics of AI
What makes morally accountable? Can machine judge morally?
Applied ethics: AI and decision making
IV Social philosophy of AI
AI and labour
AI and power
AI in the Marxist perspective: utopias and dystopias
V Anthropology of AI
AI from the viewpoint of the history of human civilisation. The future of AI, potentials and dangers.
Type of course
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
Students know, understand and can articulate basic issues of the philosophy of artificial intelligence (as listed in the long description)
Assessment criteria
Frequency and an obligatory final paper
Practical placement
no
Bibliography
Blackmore, Susan, 2005, Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press
Bostrom, Nick, 2014, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, Oxford University Press
Bringsjord, Selmer and Naveen Sundar Govindarajulu, "Artificial Intelligence",The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Fall 2022 Edition
Chalmers, David, 1996, The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory, Oxford University Press, New York
Chalmers, David, 2010, “The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis,” Journal of Consciousness Studies, 17: 7–65.
Crawford, Kate, 2021, Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. Yale University Press.
Dennett, Daniel, 1991, The Consciousness Explained, Penguin Press
Dreyfus, H., 1992, What Computers Still Can’t Do, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Harnad, Stevan, 2001, "What's Wrong and Right About Searle's Chinese Room Argument?", in Bishop, M.; Preston, J. (eds.), Essays on Searle's Chinese Room Argument, Oxford University Press
Horst, Steven (2009), "The Computational Theory of Mind", in Zalta, Edward N. (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University.
Kurzweil, Ray, 2005,The Singularity is Near, New York: Viking Press
Moor, J., 2006, “The Nature, Importance, and Difficulty of Machine Ethics”, IEEE Intelligent Systems, 21.4: 18–21.
Penrose, Roger, 1994, Shadows of the Mind, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Russell, S. & Norvig, P., 2009, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach 3rd edition, Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Searle, John, 1980,"Minds, Brains and Programs"
Searle, John, 1999, Mind, language and society, New York, NY: Basic Books
Turing, A., 1950, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” Mind, LIX: 433–460.
Wallach, W. & Allen, C., 2010, Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
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