Fundamental Issues of Artificial Intelligence

This volume offers a look at the fundamental issues of present and future AI, especially from cognitive science, computer science, neuroscience and philosophy. This work examines the conditions for artificial intelligence, how these relate to the con

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Vincent C. Müller Editor

Fundamental Issues of Artificial Intelligence

Synthese Library Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science Volume 376

Editor-in-Chief Otávio Bueno, University of Miami, Department of Philosophy, USA Editorial Board Berit Brogaard, University of Miami, USA Anjan Chakravartty, University of Notre Dame, USA Steven French, University of Leeds, UK Catarina Dutilh Novaes, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

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Editor Vincent C. Müller Future of Humanity Institute Department of Philosophy & Oxford Martin School University of Oxford Oxford, UK Anatolia College/ACT Thessaloniki, Greece http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4144-4957 http://www.sophia.de

Synthese Library ISBN 978-3-319-26483-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-26485-1

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Editorial Note

The papers in this volume result from the second conference on the Philosophy and Theory of Artificial Intelligence (PT-AI) 21-22.09.2013 that I organised in Oxford where I was a research fellow – for details on the conference, see http://www.pt-ai. org/. For this conference, we had 103 extended abstract submissions by the deadline, which were reviewed double-blind by at least two referees. Thirty-four submissions, i.e. 33 %, were accepted for presentation. In a second reviewing phase, submitted full papers plus papers from invited speakers at the conference and papers from additional invited authors were openly reviewed and discussed between all these authors. The second reviewing phase resulted in 9 further rejecti