Eric Dietrich is Professor of Philosophy of Binghamton University, USA.Chris Fields is an independent scholar based in France.John P. Sullins is Professor of Philosophy at Sonoma State University, USA.Bram Van Heuveln is Lecturer in the Cognitive Science Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA.Robin Zebrowski is Associate Professor of Cognitive Science, Chair of the Program in Cognitive Science, Beloit College, USA.

• ContentsList of FiguresPrologue to the Second EditionPrologue: The AI Wars and Beyond Part I The AI Wars, 1950 to 2000Introduction The First War: Is AI Even Possible?1 Gödel and a Foundational Objection to AI 2 How (not) to think about the Turing TestThe Second War: Architectures for Intelligence3 How Computer Science Saved the Mind4 Implementing an IntelligenceThe Third War: Mental Semantics and Mental Symbols 5 The Strange Case of the Missing Meaning: Can Computers Think About Things? The Fourth War: Rationality, Relevance, and Creativity 6 What is Relevant to What? The Frame Problem Part II Beyond the AI Wars: New Issues AriseIntroduction7 What about Consciousness?8 Ethical Issues Surrounding AI Applications9 Could Embodied AIs be Ethical Agents?Part III The “New AI”: Generative Models Reignite Old ControversiesIntroduction: Why is the “new AI” surprising?10 Representation and semantics in Large Language Models11 Have LLMs changed the debate about consciousness?12 Sustainability: the new ethical issue raised by generative AIConclusion: Whither the AI Wars?Notes Bibliography Index

The book resembles a buffet meal offering many appealing individual pieces ... [and] makes philosophical arguments on AI accessible to non-philosophers—itself an important accomplishment.

Eric Dietrich is Professor of Philosophy of Binghamton University, USA.Chris Fields is an independent scholar based in France.John P. Sullins is Professor of Philosophy at Sonoma State University, USA.Bram Van Heuveln is Lecturer in the Cognitive Science Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA.Robin Zebrowski is Associate Professor of Cognitive Science, Chair of the Program in Cognitive Science, Beloit College, USA.

• ContentsList of FiguresPrologue to the Second EditionPrologue: The AI Wars and Beyond Part I The AI Wars, 1950 to 2000Introduction The First War: Is AI Even Possible?1 Gödel and a Foundational Objection to AI 2 How (not) to think about the Turing TestThe Second War: Architectures for Intelligence3 How Computer Science Saved the Mind4 Implementing an IntelligenceThe Third War: Mental Semantics and Mental Symbols 5 The Strange Case of the Missing Meaning: Can Computers Think About Things? The Fourth War: Rationality, Relevance, and Creativity 6 What is Relevant to What? The Frame Problem Part II Beyond the AI Wars: New Issues AriseIntroduction7 What about Consciousness?8 Ethical Issues Surrounding AI Applications9 Could Embodied AIs be Ethical Agents?Part III The “New AI”: Generative Models Reignite Old ControversiesIntroduction: Why is the “new AI” surprising?10 Representation and semantics in Large Language Models11 Have LLMs changed the debate about consciousness?12 Sustainability: the new ethical issue raised by generative AIConclusion: Whither the AI Wars?Notes Bibliography Index

The book resembles a buffet meal offering many appealing individual pieces ... [and] makes philosophical arguments on AI accessible to non-philosophers—itself an important accomplishment.

Eric Dietrich is Professor of Philosophy of Binghamton University, USA.Chris Fields is an independent scholar based in France.John P. Sullins is Professor of Philosophy at Sonoma State University, USA.Bram Van Heuveln is Lecturer in the Cognitive Science Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA.Robin Zebrowski is Associate Professor of Cognitive Science, Chair of the Program in Cognitive Science, Beloit College, USA.

• ContentsList of FiguresPrologue to the Second EditionPrologue: The AI Wars and Beyond Part I The AI Wars, 1950 to 2000Introduction The First War: Is AI Even Possible?1 Gödel and a Foundational Objection to AI 2 How (not) to think about the Turing TestThe Second War: Architectures for Intelligence3 How Computer Science Saved the Mind4 Implementing an IntelligenceThe Third War: Mental Semantics and Mental Symbols 5 The Strange Case of the Missing Meaning: Can Computers Think About Things? The Fourth War: Rationality, Relevance, and Creativity 6 What is Relevant to What? The Frame Problem Part II Beyond the AI Wars: New Issues AriseIntroduction7 What about Consciousness?8 Ethical Issues Surrounding AI Applications9 Could Embodied AIs be Ethical Agents?Part III The “New AI”: Generative Models Reignite Old ControversiesIntroduction: Why is the “new AI” surprising?10 Representation and semantics in Large Language Models11 Have LLMs changed the debate about consciousness?12 Sustainability: the new ethical issue raised by generative AIConclusion: Whither the AI Wars?Notes Bibliography Index

The book resembles a buffet meal offering many appealing individual pieces ... [and] makes philosophical arguments on AI accessible to non-philosophers—itself an important accomplishment.