The term "roboethics" was coined by roboticist Gianmarco Veruggio in 2002, referring to the morality of how humans design, construct, use and treat robots and other artificially intelligent beings. It ...
Putnam was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1926. His father, Samuel Putnam, was a scholar of Romance languages, columnist and translator who wrote for the Daily Worker, a publication of the American Comm ...
Born in Terre Haute, Indiana to Stanley S. and Irene Lederer Dreyfus, Dreyfus was educated at Harvard University, earning three degrees there, with a BA in 1951, an MA in 1952, and a PhD in 1964, unde ...
Searle's thought experiment begins with this hypothetical premise: suppose that artificial intelligence research has succeeded in constructing a computer that behaves as if it understands Chinese. It ...
Searle's father, G. W. Searle, an electrical engineer, was employed by ATT Corporation, while his mother, Hester Beck Searle, was a physician. Searle began his college education at the University of W ...
The word machine derives from the Latin word machina, which in turn derives from the Greek (Doric μαχαν? makhana, Ionic μηχαν? mekhane "contrivance, machine, engine", a derivation from μ ...
Thinking machines and artificial beings appear in Greek myths, such as Talos of Crete, the bronze robot of Hephaestus, and Pygmalion's Galatea. Human likenesses believed to have intelligence were buil ...
The question of whether it is possible for machines to think has a long history, which is firmly entrenched in the distinction between dualist and materialist views of the mind. René Descartes prefig ...
The origin of the modern concept of consciousness is often attributed to John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding, published in 1690. Locke defined consciousness as "the perception of what pa ...
Below is a list of specific issues important to Philosophy of neuroscience:"The indirectness of studies of mind and brain""Computational or representational analysis of brain processing""Relations bet ...
The study of the nervous system dates back to ancient Egypt. Evidence of trepanation, the surgical practice of either drilling or scraping a hole into the skull with the purpose of curing headaches or ...
Moral dualism is the belief of the great complement or conflict between the benevolent and the malignant.Like ditheism/bitheism (see below), moral dualism does not imply the absence of monist or monot ...
Philosophers David L. Robb and John H. Heil introduce mental causation in terms of the mind–body problem of interaction:Mind–body interaction has a central place in our pretheoretic conception of ag ...
Born and raised in Harborne (now a suburb of Birmingham), in the United Kingdom, he was educated at Clifton College and then at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. After a brief period teaching at Rossall ...
Speaking is the default modality for language in all cultures. The production of spoken language depends on sophisticated capacities for controlling the lips, tongue and other components of the vocal ...
