Professor John McCarthy
Father of AI

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What has AI in Common with Philosophy?

'Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy' was given at Aaron Sloman's Symposium on philosophy and AI at IJCAI-95. The present version is somewhat improved.

Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy was given at Aaron Sloman's Symposium on philosophy and AI at IJCAI-95. The present version is somewhat improved. I would like to give better references to work by philosophers that I consider to have positively influenced AI research, but it may take some time to formulate this. [As Eisenhower said, give me a week.]

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