Free will - even for robots

Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 341-352

  McCarthy, John ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Agents; Free will; Robots

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034416014     PISSN: 0952813X     EISSN: 13623079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09528130050111473     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Costello, T., and McCarthy, J., 1999, Useful counterfactuals.5 Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, submitted.
2. Dennett, D., 1978, Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology (Cambridge, MA: Bradford Books/MIT Press).
3. Dennett, D., 1984, Elbow Room: the Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).
4. McCarthy, J., 1979, First order theories of individual concepts and propositions. Machine Intelligence, Vol. 9, edited by D. Michie (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press). Reprinted in McCarthy (1990).
5. McCarthy, J., 1990, Formalizing Common Sense: Papers by John McCarthy (Ablex Publishing Corporation).
6. McCarthy, J., 1996, Making robots conscious of their mental states. Machine Intelligence 15, edited by S. Muggleton (Oxford: Oxford University Press). To appear in 2000. The web version is improved from that presented at Machine Intelligence 15 in 1995.
7. McCarthy, J., 1999a, Logical theories with approximate concepts-draft.7 Submitted but web only for now.
8. McCarthy, J., 1999b, Philosophical and scientific presuppositions of logical AI. Logical Foundations for Cognitive Agents: Contributions in Honor of Ray Reiter, edited by H. J. Levesque and F. Pirri (Berlin: Springer-Verlag), pp. 72-78.
9. McCarthy, J., and Hayes, P. J., 1969, Some philosophical problems from the standpoint of artificial intelligence. Machine Intelligence 4, edited by B. Meltzer and D. Michie (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press), pp. 463-502.
10. Shanahan, M., 1997, Solving the Frame Problem, a Mathematical Investigation of the Common Sense Law of Inertia (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).
11. Shannon, C. E., 1938, A symbolic analysis of relay and switching circuits. Transactions American Institute of Electrical Engineers, 57: 713-723. I think this is the article in which Shannon showed that most boolean functions require many relay contacts.
12. Suppes, P., 1994, Voluntary motion, biological computation and free will. Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 19: 452-467.