| Center |
| Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Sciences |
| Departament |
| Logic and Philosophy of Science |
| Lecturers in charge |
| Sin datos cargados |
| Met. Docent |
| Lectures, practical workshops and tutorials |
| Met. Avaluació |
| Final examination and project work |
| Bibliografia |
| BECHTEL, W.: Filosofía de la mente. (Una panorámica para la ciencia cognitiva), Madrid, Tecnos, 1991. BODEN, M.A. (ed.): Filosofía de la Inteligencia Artificial. México, FCE, 1994. CASABAN, E.: Introducció a la Informàtica. Universitat de València, 1993. CASABAN, E.; LORENTE, J.M. y UBEDA, J.P.: "Què s'oposa a la teoria mecanicista de la ment?" Quaderns de Filosofia i Ciència, núm. 25-26, 1995, pp. 163-170. COPELAND, J.: Inteligencia Artificial. (Una introducción filosófica). Madrid, Alianza, 1996. CHURCHLAND, P.M.: Materia y conciencia. Barcelona, Gedisa, 1992. FISCHBACH, G.D.: "Mente y cerebro". Investigación y Ciencia. núm. 194, nov. 1992, pp. 6-16. GRAUBARD, S.R.: El nuevo debate sobre la inteligencia artificial. Barcelona, Gedisa, 1993. |
| Continguts |
| 1. Artificial Intelligence: achievements and current issues. The "frame problem" and other relevant issues that have caused philosophical discussion. 2. Brief introduction to the most relevant computer concepts in order to understand Classical Artificial Intelligence. 3. Brief introduction to the key concepts of connectionism to understand how problems are solved through the neuronal network. 4. Philosophical positions on issues raised by the comparison between the human mind and machines. 5. Cognitive explanations considering aspects of computation, computability and some notions of quantum physics. 6. The philosophical issue of intencionality and computational theoretical approaches regarding functions of nervous system. |
| Objetius |
| Study of philosophical questions raised by invention of machines to solve cognitive problems. Philosophical discussions taking different positions on Artificial Intelligence. |
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