Abstract. We introduce and study a tactic language, Hitac, for constructing hierarchical proofs, known as hiproofs. The idea of hiproofs is to superimpose a labelled hierarchical n...
A child, or young human-like robot of the future, needs to develop an information-processing architecture, forms of representation, and mechanisms to support perceiving, manipulati...
Abstract. McDermott [12,13] introduced the concept "Artificial Intelligence meets Natural Stupidity". In this paper, we explore how Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic C...
According to the traditional conception of the mind, semantical content is perhaps the most important feature distinguishing mental from non-mental systems. And this traditional co...
Abstract. A fundamental and unanalysed logical concept is substitution. This seemingly innocuous operation -- substituting a variable for a term or valuating a variable to an eleme...
Like computers before them, social robots can be used as a fundamental research tool. Indeed, they can help us to turn our attention from putative inner modules to thinking about t...
Philosophy, artificial intelligence and cognitive science have long been dominated by the presupposition that intelligence is fundamentally individual. Recent work in cognitive sci...
Imagination is generally regarded as a very powerful and advanced cognitive ability. In this paper we propose a modelling framework for what we call functional imagination: the ab...
Hugo Gravato Marques, Owen Holland, Richard Newcom...
This position paper argues the case for the application of constructivist theories to Artificial Intelligence, with particular emphasis on Piaget's theory. The idea of buildin...