rapaport@sunybcs.UUCP (04/11/87)
philosophy of science
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO
GRADUATE GROUP IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE
JOHN HAUGELAND
Department of Philosophy
University of Pittsburgh
UNDERSTANDING AND PERSONALITY
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has inherited a conception of pure under-
standing from modern philosophy, especially Descartes and Kant. How-
ever, developments within AI, specifically with regard to knowledge
representation, have partially undermined this conception. It will be
argued that they have not gone far enough in this. In particular,
``impurities'' like ego and affects must be included as well.
Thursday, April 23, 1987
4:00 P.M.
Knox 4, Amherst Campus
Co-sponsored by:
Department of Computer Science
and
Colloquium in the History and Philosophy of Science
Informal discussion at 8:00 P.M. at Stuart Shapiro's house, 112 Park-
ledge Drive, Snyder, NY. Call Bill Rapaport (Dept. of Computer Science,
636-3181), Gail Bruder (Dept. of Psychology, 636-3676), or Zeno Swijtink
(Dept. of Philosophy, 636-2444) for further information.