Course schedule:

Week 1

Reading:

Turing A. M. (1950). Computing Machinery and Intelligence. Mind 49: 433-460.

Week 2

Reading:

J. Copeland (1993). Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Introduction: 33-57.

Week 3

Reading:

Searle, J. R. (1980). Minds, brains, and programs. Behavioral and brain sciences, 3(03), 417-424.

Chalmers, D. (1992) Subsymbolic Computation and the Chinese Room. 1-24.

Week 4

Reading:

Chella, A., Manzotti R. (2012) AGI and Machine Consciousness. In: Theoretical Foundations of Artificial General Intelligence, 263-282.

Week 5

Reading:

Gamez, D. (2008). Progress in machine consciousness. Consciousness and Cognition, 17(3), 887-910.

Week 6

Reading:

Dreyfus, H. (1992). What Computers Still Can’t Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason. 143-167.

Week 7

Reading:

Wilson, M. (2002). Six views of embodied cognition. Psychonomic bulletin & review, 9(4), 625-636.

Deadline:

Turn in your ideas and plans regarding your final paper.

Week 8

Reading:

Mathias, A. (2004). The responsibility gap: Ascribing responsibility for the actions of learning automata. Ethics and Information Technology 6: 175–183.

Hage, J. (2017). Theoretical foundations for the responsibility of autonomous agents. Artificial Intelligence and Law, September 2017, Volume 25, Issue 3, 255–271.

Week 9

Reading:

Gordon, J. S. (2018). What do we owe to intelligent robots? AI & SOCIETY, 1-15.

Week 10

Reading:

Sun, R. Potential of full human–machine symbiosis through truly intelligent cognitive systems. AI & SOCIETY, 1-21.

Week 11

Reading:

More, M., The Philosophy of Transhumanism. In: The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and Contemporary Essays on the Science, Technology, and Philosophy of the Human Future. 3-18

Week 12

Reading:

Sandel, M., The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering. 1-25.

Week 13

Reading:

Chalmers, D., 2010, The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 17: 7–65.

Exam:

Deadline for the final paper: 10. 6. 2019