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Agnosticism about artificial consciousness
Mind &Language, EarlyView.Could an AI have conscious experiences? Answers to this question should be based not on intuition, dogma or speculation but on solid scientific evidence. However, I argue such evidence is hard to come by and that the only justifiable stance is agnosticism.
Tom McClelland
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Can we repudiate ontology altogether?
Noûs, EarlyView.Abstract Ontological nihilists repudiate ontology altogether, maintaining that ontological structure is an unnecessary addition to our theorizing. Recent defenses of the view involve a sophisticated combination of highly expressive but ontologically innocent languages combined with a metaphysics of features—non‐objectual, complete but modifiable states
Christopher J. Masterman
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Advances in the Theory of Argumentation Schemes and Critical Questions
Informal Logic, 2008 This paper begins a working through of Blair’s (2001) theoretical agenda concerning argumentation schemes and their attendant critical questions, in which we propose a number of solutions to some outstanding theoretical issues.
David Godden, Douglas Walton
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Disjunctive Logic Programs with Inheritance
, 2001 The paper proposes a new knowledge representation language, called ...
Buccafurri, Francesco +2 more
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Infinite ethics and the limits of impartiality
Noûs, EarlyView.Abstract Beneficence—the part of morality concerned with promoting people's well‐being—is widely thought to be both agent‐neutral and impartial: it prescribes a common aim to all, and does not favor some individuals over others. This paper explores a problem for agent‐neutral, impartial beneficence from the perspective of “individualistic ethics” in ...
Jacob M. Nebel
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Noûs, EarlyView.Abstract The present paper presents a new (formal) theory of presence according to which, roughly, to be present at a place is to have a delegate located at that place. One crucial feature of the theory is that something can be present at a place without thereby being located there.
Claudio Calosi
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Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Conversations can belong to different types, or genres. We consider four dimensions of variation as case studies: Some conversations are about sharing information, others about making decisions; some are about making firm commitments, others about brainstorming options; some are about sticking to the facts, others involve make‐believe; some ...
Elmar Unnsteinsson, Daniel W. Harris
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A Framework for Combining Defeasible Argumentation with Labeled Deduction
, 2003 In the last years, there has been an increasing demand of a variety of logical systems, prompted mostly by applications of logic in AI and other related areas.
Chesñevar, Carlos Iván +1 more
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Explanations, belief revision and defeasible reasoning
Artificial Intelligence, 2002 We present different constructions for nonprioritized belief revision, that is, belief changes in which the input sentences are not always accepted. First, we present the concept of explanation in a deductive way. Second, we define multiple revision operators with respect to sets of sentences (representing explanations), giving representation theorems.
Falappa, Marcelo A. +2 more
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