Table of Contents

Introduction Keith Frankish and William M. Ramsey; Part I. Foundations: 1. History, motivations, and core themes Stan Franklin; 2. Philosophical foundations Konstantine Arkoudas and Selmer Bringsjord; 3. Philosophical challenges William S. Robinson; Part II. Architectures: 4. GOFAI Margaret A. Boden; 5. Connectionism and neural networks Ron Sun; 6. Dynamical systems and embedded cognition Randall D. Beer; Part III. Dimensions: 7. Learning David Danks; 8. Perception and computer vision Markus Vincze, Sven Wachsmuth and Gerhard Sagerer; 9. Reasoning and decision making Eyal Amir; 10. Language and communication Yorick Wilks; 11. Actions and agents Eduardo Alonso; 12. Artificial emotions and machine consciousness Matthias Scheutz; Part IV. Extensions: 13. Robotics Phil Husbands; 14. Artificial life Mark A. Bedau; 15. The ethics of artificial intelligence Nick Bostrom and Eliezer Yudkowsky.

Promotional Information

An authoritative, up-to-date survey of the state of the art in artificial intelligence, written for non-specialists.

About the Author

Keith Frankish is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Open University and Adjunct Professor with the Brain and Mind Program in Neurosciences at the University of Crete. He is the author of Mind and Supermind (Cambridge, 2004) and Consciousness (2005). He is co-editor of In Two Minds: Dual Processes and Beyond (with Jonathan St B. T. Evans, 2009), New Waves in Philosophy of Action (with Jesús H. Aguilar and Andrei A. Buckareff, 2010) and The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Science (with William Ramsey, Cambridge, 2012). William M. Ramsey is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is the author of Representation Reconsidered (Cambridge, 2007) and co-editor of Philosophy and Connectionist Theory (with David Rumelhart and Stephen Stich, 1991), Rethinking Intuition (with Michael DePaul, 1998) and The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Science (with Keith Frankish, Cambridge, 2012).