PHILOSOPHY OF ARTIFICIAL MINDS
Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher:
ALBERTO GIOVANNI BIUSO
Expected Learning Outcomes
The Philosophy of artificial minds consists in the multidisciplinary study of natural, hybridized and prosthetic corporeality.
The student will achieve:
1) Knowledge and understanding of the status of intelligence
2) Ability to apply knowledge and understanding to the relationship with digital artefacts
3) Autonomy of judgment with respect to the information received in this area
4) Communication skills in the use of digital devices
5) Ability to learn from a variety of sources and tools
Course Structure
Frontal lessons, which will focus on reading and analyzing texts
Required Prerequisites
Adequate knowledge of the main paths of European philosophy from the Greek world to the twentieth century.
Detailed Course Content
MIND, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCES AND FREE WILL
The course will address the issue of free will, which is decisive for any definition and understanding of intelligence and the behaviors that arise from it. From here we will discuss the possibility, conditions and limits of a non-biological intelligence.
Textbook Information
-Anthony A. Long, Greek Models of Mind and Self, Einaudi 2016 (pp. 152)
-Naief Yehya, El cuerpo transformado, Elèuthera 2017 (pp. 187)
-Aa. Vv., L’algoritmo pensante. Dalla libertà dell’uomo all’autonomia delle intelligenze artificiali, Il Pozzo di Giacobbe 2020 (pp. 136)
-Alberto Giovanni Biuso, Il libero arbitrio tra neuroscienze e filosofia, in Aa. Vv., «Kαλλὸς καί ἀρετή. Bellezza e virtù», Bonanno 2015 (pp. 801-817)
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References |
1 | The bodymind in the Greek world | Anthony A. Long, Greek Models of Mind and Self |
2 | Introduction to the philosophy of artificial minds | Naief Yehya, Homo cyborg |
3 | Brains and algorithms | Aa. Vv., L’algoritmo pensante. Dalla libertà dell’uomo all’autonomia delle intelligenze artificiali |
4 | Intelligences, neuroscience, free will | Alberto Giovanni Biuso, Il libero arbitrio tra neuroscienze e filosofia |
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