The purpose of the Society for Machines and Mentality is to advance philosophical understanding of issues involving artificial intelligence, philosophy, and cognitive science.
The purpose of the Society for Machines and Mentality is to advance philosophical understanding of issues involving artificial intelligence, philosophy, and cognitive science.
Chair: Eric Steinhart (William Paterson University)
Speaker: Riccardo Manzotti (University of Milan–Italy) “From Consciousness to Machine Consciousness”
Chair: Eric Steinhart (William Paterson University)
Speakers: Ray Kurzweil (Kurzweil Technologies), Amnon Eden (University of Essex-United Kingdom), Linda MacDonald Glenn (Alden March Bioethics Institute-Albany Medical College), Greg Peterson (South Dakota State University)
More information about the 2007 meeting.
Chair: Jack Copeland (University of Canterbury–New Zealand)
Speaker: Amnon Eden (University of Essex) “Problems in Software Ontology”
Speaker: Barry Smith (SUNY Buffalo and University of Leipzig) “Software and Other Cultural Artifacts”
Speaker: Eric Steinhart (William Paterson University) “The Existence of Software”
More information about the 2006 meeting (including abstracts and papers).
Chair: Jack Copeland (University of Canterbury–New Zealand)
Speaker: Gualtiero Piccinini (University of Missouri–Saint Louis) “The Physical Church-Turing Thesis: Modest or Bold?”
Speaker: Oron Shagrir (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) “On the Computational Power of Accelerating Turing Machines”
More information about the 2005 meeting.
Chair: Selmer Bringsjord (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Speaker: Patrick Winston (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT) “The Human Intelligence Enterprise”
Speaker: Nick Cassimatis (Department of Cognitive Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) “A Substrate for Integrated Theories of Cognition”
More information about the 2004 meeting.
Chair: Selmer Bringsjord (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Speaker: Patrick Grim (State University of New York, Stony Brook) “The Origins of Meaning: Hints from Large Arrays of Neural Nets”
Speaker: Evan Selinger (Rochester Institute of Technology) “Prejudice Reduction in Artificial Societies: A Computational Model for the Contact Hypothesis”
More information about the 2003 meeting.
Chair: James Moor (Dartmouth)
Speaker: Hava Siegelmann (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) “Beyond Classical Computation: Neural Networks”
Speaker: Pete Mandik (William Paterson University of New Jersey) “Evolving Microminds”
Chair: Ron Barnett (Valdosta)
Speaker: Eric Steinhart (William Patterson) “Supermachines and Superminds”
Chair: John Pollock
Speaker: Peter Danielson, “Machines for Evolving Machines with Simple Social Minds”
Speaker: John Horty, “Planning and Rationality: A Perspective from Artificial Intelligence”
Chair: Joseph Cruz (Hampshire College)
Speaker: Georges Rey (Maryland) “Physicalism and Psychology: A Plea for a Substantive Philosophy of Mind”
Speaker: Michael Bratman (Stanford) “Valuing and the Will”
Chair: Brian Rosmaita
Speaker: Selmer Bringsjord, “ ‘Zombanimals’: Why Robots Are Just Zombie Animals”
Respondent: Larry Hauser, “Commentary on Bringsjord's Zombanimals”
Chair: James Moor
Speakers: Valerie Hardcastle (Philosophy, Virginia Tech), Stephen Kimbrough (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania), Paul Thagard, (Philosophy, University of Waterloo), Edward Zalta (CSLI and Philosophy, Stanford University)
Chair: William Bechtel
Speaker: Ruth Millikan, “The Mind in its Language Community: A Study of Ecological Biology”
Speaker: James Fetzer, “In Defense of Narrow Content.”
Chair: William Bechtel
Speaker: David H. Ackley, “Altruism in the Evolution of Communication”
Speaker: Andy Clark, “What Does Embodiment Mean for Cognitive Science?”
Chair: David Cole
Speaker: William Lycan, “Qualitative Experience in Machines,”
Speaker: Marvin Minsky, “Machine Understanding”
Chair: David Cole
Speaker: Fred Dretske, “The Possibility of Artificial Intelligence”
Panel: William Rappaport, James Moor, Donald Nute, Jane Nutter
Chair: William J. Rappaport
Speaker: Beth Preston, “What is a Machine?”
Speaker: Donald Perlis, “Putnam’s Theorem and the Intentionality Machine”
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