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46We look at how the ability to experience grows as an architecture grows itself along with growing the ontology used to experience, understand and act in the environment.
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36Review of: Lakatos, Ed, Problems in the Philosophy of Mathematics (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 19 (2): 171-173. 1968.This is the first volume of the Proceedings of the International Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science held in London in 1965, and contains revised versions of the nine papers presented in the Philosophy of Mathematics Section, together with comments by participants in the discussions, and replies. (The papers on Inductive Logic and Philosophy of Science will be published in two separate volumes.) In a short review it is not possible to give much more than an outline of the contents.
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46Response to the CommentariesPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 3 (2): 137-137. 1996.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Response to the CommentariesIan Wright, Aaron Sloman, and Luc BeaudoinWe are very grateful for the care with which the commentators have read our paper, and the sympathy with which they treated what we acknowledged to be at best a preliminary attempt to make sense of a range of phenomena involving grief and other emotions in terms of our draft architecture. We are fortunate to have commentators that are so much in sympathy with what …Read more
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115The primacy of non-communicative languageIn M. MacCafferty & Kurt Gray (eds.), The Analysis of Meaning: Informatics 5, Proceedings Aslib/Bcs Conference, Aslib. 1979.
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386Most philosophers appear to have ignored the distinction between the broad concept of Virtual Machine Functionalism (VMF) described in Sloman&Chrisley (2003) and the better known version of functionalism referred to there as Atomic State Functionalism (ASF), which is often given as an explanation of what Functionalism is, e.g. in Block (1995). One of the main differences is that ASF encourages talk of supervenience of states and properties, whereas VMF requires supervenience of machines that are…Read more
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36What most people seem not to have noticed is that there's another kind of obesity, a sort of ' mental obesity' which may be causing as much harm to the nation's health -- its mental and intellectual health
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39This paper discusses some of the requirements for the control architecture of an intelligent human-like agent with multiple independent dynamically changing motives in a dynamically changing only partly predictable world. The architecture proposed includes a combination of reactive, deliberative and meta-management mechanisms along with one or more global ``alarm'' systems. The engineering design requirements are discussed in relation our evolutionary history, evidence of brain function and rece…Read more
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106What sort of architecture is required for a human-like agent?In Ramakrishna K. Rao (ed.), Foundations of Rational Agency, Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1996.This paper is about how to give human-like powers to complete agents. For this the most important design choice concerns the overall architecture. Questions regarding detailed mechanisms, forms of representations, inference capabilities, knowledge etc. are best addressed in the context of a global architecture in which different design decisions need to be linked. Such a design would assemble various kinds of functionality into a complete coherent working system, in which there are many concurre…Read more
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30This paper offers a short and biased overview of the history of discussion and controversy about the role of different forms of representation in intelligent agents. It repeats and extends some of the criticisms of the `logicist' approach to AI that I first made in 1971, while also defending logic for its power and generality. It identifies some common confusions regarding the role of visual or diagrammatic reasoning including confusions based on the fact that different forms of representation m…Read more
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237The Computer Revolution in Philosophy: Philosophy, Science, and Models of MindHarvester Press. 1978.Extract from Hofstadter's revew in Bulletin of American Mathematical Society : http://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1980-02-02/S0273-0979-1980-14752-7/S0273-0979-1980-14752-7.pdf "Aaron Sloman is a man who is convinced that most philosophers and many other students of mind are in dire need of being convinced that there has been a revolution in that field happening right under their noses, and that they had better quickly inform themselves. The revolution is called "Artificial Intelligence" (Al)-and …Read more
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35Some old problems going back to Immanuel Kant about the nature of mathematical knowledge can be addressed in a new way by asking what sorts of developmental changes in a human child make it possible for the child to become a mathematician
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41What kind of indirect process is visual perception?Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (3): 401-404. 1980.
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45IV—Explaining Logical Necessity1Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 69 (1): 33-50. 1969.Aaron Sloman; IV—Explaining Logical Necessity1, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 69, Issue 1, 1 June 1969, Pages 33–50, https://doi.org/10.1093/a.
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71This paper, along with the following paper by John McCarthy, introduces some of the topics to be discussed at the IJCAI95 event `A philosophical encounter: An interactive presentation of some of the key philosophical problems in AI and AI problems in philosophy.' Philosophy needs AI in order to make progress with many difficult questions about the nature of mind, and AI needs philosophy in order to help clarify goals, methods, and concepts and to help with several specific technical problems. Wh…Read more
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28How many separately evolved emotional beasties live within usIn Robert Trappl (ed.), Emotions in Humans and Artifacts, Bradford Book/mit Press. pp. 35--114. 2002.
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95Architecture-based conceptions of mindIn Peter Gardenfors, Katarzyna Kijania-Placek & Jan Wolenski (eds.), In the Scope of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science (Vol Ii), Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2002.
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82findings from affective neuroscience research. I shall focus mainly on, but in a manner which, I hope is.
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