On the Cognitive, Ethical, and Scientific Dimensions of Artificial Intelligence

Matteo Vincenzo d'Alfonso is professor for History of Philosophy at the University of Ferrara. He works on German Idealism, mainly on the relationships between practical and theoretical reason in the philosphies of Kant, Fichte and Schopenhauer. Among his publications Vom Wissen zur Weisheit. Fichtes Wissenschaftslehre 2011, Rodopi, Amsterdam/New York 2005 and Schopenhauers Kollegnachschriften der Metaphysik- und Psychologievorlesungen E. G. Schulzes (Göttigen 1810-11), Ergon, Würzbürg 2009. Don Berkich is associate professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and currently serves as president of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy. Inspired by the diverse interdisciplinary interests of his colleagues in IACAP, his research centers on artificial agency and computability and complexity constraints on cognition.

• Introduction.- Part I: Computation and Information.- Chapter 1. Computation in Physical Systems: A Normative Mapping Account (Paul Schweizer).- Chapter 2. The Notion of 'Information': Enlightening or Forming? (Stefan Gruner and Francois Oberholzer).- Part II: Logic.- Chapter 3. Modal Ω-Logic: Automata, Neo-Logicism, and Set-theoretic Realism (Hasen Khudairi).- Chapter 4. What Arrow's Information Paradox Says (To Philosophers) (Mario Piazza and Marco Pedicini).- Part III: Epistemology and Science.- Chapter 5. Antimodularity: Pragmatic Consequences of Computational Complexity on Scientific Explanation (Luca Rivelli).- Chapter 6. The End of Reductionism (Russ Abbott).- Chapter 7. Politics and Epistemology of Big Data: A Critical Assessment (Teresa Numerico).- Part IV: Cognition and Mind.- Chapter 8. Telepresence and the Role of the Senses (Ingvar Tjostheim and Wolfgang Leister).- Chapter 9. Ontologies, Mental Disorders and Prototype (M. Cristina Amoretti, Marcello Frixione, Antonio Lieto and Greta Adamo).- Chapter 10. Why-Questions and Levels of Analysis in Large-Scale Simulations of the Brain (Edoardo Datteri).- Chapter 11. Virtual information in the light of Kant’s Practical Reason (Matteo d'Alfonso).- Chapter 12. A Kantian Cognitive Architecture (Richard Evans).- Part V: Moral Dimensions of Human-Machine Interaction.- Chapter 13. Machine Learning and Irresponsible Inference: Morally Assessing the Training Data for Image Recognition Systems (Owen King).- Chapter 14. Robotic Responsibility (Anna Wilks).- Chapter 15. Robots, Ethics, and Intimacy: The Need for Scientific Research (Jason Borenstein and Ronald Arkin).- Chapter 16. Applying a Social-Relational Model to Explore the Curious Case of hitchBOT (Frances Grodzinsky, Marty J. Wolf and Keith Miller).- Chapter 17. Against Human Exceptionalism: Environmental Ethics and Machine Question (Migle Laukyte).- Chapter 18. The Ethics of Choice in Single-Player Video Games (Erica Neely).- Part VI: Trust, Privacy, and Justice.- Chapter 19. Obfuscation and Good Enough Anonymity (Tony Doyle).- Chapter 20. Trust and Security in the Digital Age. Algorithms, Standards, and Risks (Massimo Durante).- Chapter 21. Tolerating Justice: A Normative Stance on the Hard Cases of the Law in the Information Era (Ugo Pagallo).