PHI 470 - Topics in Analytic Philosophy - Topic:Phil/Artificial Intellig

Campus: Springfield

Description:

Special topics in metaphysics, epistemology, and related areas. May be repeated if topics vary. Course Information: Counts toward the Advanced Course in Specialization and Area I, Core Analytic Philosophy requirements of the philosophy major.

Special Instructions:

Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence: Philosophical beginnings of AI [A. Turing]. Philosophical problems in AI [e.g. different notions of computability]. Philosophical problems with present and future AI [ethical, social or futurological]. We focus on the broad theoretical problems at the cutting edge of AI, such as continuity between artificial and biological cognitive architectures, discovery machines, machine consciousness and Artificial General Intelligence.

Option 1

Course Level: Graduate

Credit: 4

Term(s): Spring