Professor John McCarthy
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Some Philosophical Problems from the Standpoint of Artificial Intelligence

This is the basic paper on situation calculus. Joint work with Patrick J. Hayes.

Some Philosophical Problems from the Standpoint of Artificial Intelligence by John McCarthy and Patrick J. Hayes was published in 1969 in Machine Intelligence 4. It is the basic paper on situation calculus.

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Citation for this paper

@InCollection{McCHay69,
	author = "John McCarthy and Patrick J. Hayes",
	title = "Some Philosophical Problems from the Standpoint of
	Artificial Intelligence",
	booktitle = "Machine Intelligence 4",
	editor = "B. Meltzer and D. Michie",
	pages = "463--502",
	publisher = "Edinburgh University Press",
	year = "1969",
	note = "reprinted in McC90",
}