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52The Great Philoosphical Objections to AI: The History and Legacy of the AI WarsBloomsbury Academic. 2021.This book surveys and examines the most famous philosophical arguments against building a machine with human-level intelligence. From claims and counter-claims about the ability to implement consciousness, rationality, and meaning, to arguments about cognitive architecture, the book presents a vivid history of the clash between the philosophy and AI. Tellingly, the AI Wars are mostly quiet now. Explaining this crucial fact opens new paths to understanding the current resurgence AI (especially, d…Read more
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5From Clickwheel through Busty AlexaIn Kimberly S. Engels (ed.), The Good Place and Philosophy, Wiley. 2020-08-27.Our human forms of embodiment, the many various ways real bodies appear in the real world, structure our experiences, memories, thoughts, and language in ways both subtle and important. On The Good Place, we have bodies in the afterlife, and they must be real enough that they can be filled with pins and butthole spiders. Researchers recognized the importance of having a body in the real world as a method of building artificial intelligence (AI). Throughout the first three seasons of The Good Pla…Read more
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7Mutual Incorporation, Intercorporeality, and the Problem of Mediating SystemsStudia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai Philosophia 67 (3): 25-37. 2022."In this paper, I explore the ways that phenomenological concepts like intercorporeality and mutual incorporation offer new tools in trying to make sense of human experiences via mediating systems. In particular, I think about how the COVID-19 pandemic hastened a large population into mediated interactions, and what is lost, perhaps contingently or perhaps intrinsically, when human experiences are mediated in this way. I look to research in presence, skillful interaction, and enactive social cog…Read more
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9Artificial Instinct: Lem’s Robots as a Model Case for AIPro-Fil 22 (Special Issue): 92-102. 2021.In the seventy years since AI became a field of study, the theoretical work of philosophers has played increasingly important roles in understanding many aspects of the AI project, from the metaphysics of mind and what kinds of systems can or cannot implement them, the epistemology of objectivity and algorithmic bias, the ethics of automation, drones, and specific implementations of AI, as well as analyses of AI embedded in social contexts (for example). Serious scholarship in AI ethics sometime…Read more
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43Review of "Doing Philosophy: From Common Curiosity to Logical Reasoning" (review)Essays in Philosophy 20 (2): 240-244. 2019.
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9Altering the BodyInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 20 (2): 229-246. 2006.Notions of human nature and what is natural are vague and contradictory within the field of bioethics, especially evident through individuals critical of bodily diversity through nanobiology and biotechnology in general. This paper discusses the paradoxical aspects of these notions of human nature, while showing that they rely on a notion of a standard body that all humans allegedly share. I examine several writings on biotechnology by bioethicists, specifically by people working in policy—it is…Read more
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65The Extended MindPhilosophical Psychology 26 (1): 153-157. 2013.Philosophical Psychology, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page 1-5, Ahead of Print
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1Continuous sticktogetherations and somethingelsifications: How evolutionary biology re-wrote the story of mindJournal of Mind and Behavior 29 (1-2): 87-97. 2008.Cognitive science is undergoing a rebirth, overturning much of the traditional thought established by people like Chomsky and Newell and Simon. This second-generation thought, exemplified by people like Clark, Lakoff, and Johnson, is pursuing the same project as the traditional thinkers, but with evolutionary considerations. This revision of cognitive science can trace its roots back to the American Pragmatists, while still attending to even the most recent work in neuroscience and evolutionary …Read more
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48In Dialogue With the World: Merleau-Ponty, Rodney Brooks and Embodied Artificial IntelligenceJournal of Consciousness Studies 17 (7-8): 7-8. 2010.In this paper, I will be arguing that the most recent incarnation of AI research -- that of embodied robotics and situated cognition -- demonstrates a strict and remarkable parallel with the work of mid-century French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and that through this parallel we see demonstration and confirmation of ideas about minds, bodies, and what Merleau-Ponty often called a 'dialogue with the world'. Seeing these theories confirmed in AI research will ultimately provide us with …Read more
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32Altering the BodyInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 20 (2): 229-246. 2006.Notions of human nature and what is natural are vague and contradictory within the field of bioethics, especially evident through individuals critical of bodily diversity through nanobiology and biotechnology in general. This paper discusses the paradoxical aspects of these notions of human nature, while showing that they rely on a notion of a standard body that all humans allegedly share. I examine several writings on biotechnology by bioethicists, specifically by people working in policy—it is…Read more
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56Juan Carlos goméz, apes, monkeys, children, and the growth of mindPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 7 (1): 151-154. 2008.
Beloit, Wisconsin, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence |
Philosophy of Mind |
Technology Ethics |