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Tentative Syllabus (subject to change) Feb 8 Introduction: Semantics, Concepts, Physics Feb 15 Required D. Dennett, True Believers: The Intentional Strategy and Why It Works , 1981. H. Dreyfus, From Micro-Worlds to Knowledge Representation: AI at an Impasse In Mind Design II (ed. J. Haugeland), 1997. Optional Agre & Chapman 1987 (Pengi)* D. Ballard, Deictic Codes for the Embodiment of Cognition. Behavioral and Brain Science. 1997. H. Dreyfus,Why Computers Must Have Bodies in Order to Be Intelligent. 1967 D. Dennett, Precis on the Intentional Stance , Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1998. (target article required, responses optional) D. Kirsch, Foundations of AI: the big issues. Artificial Intelligence. 1991 (reply to brooks 1991) Ferguson, A. (1998). How Steven Pinker's Mind Works. The Weekly Standard. Feb 22 Simulator Tutorial No Readings March 1 Required G. Drescher, Made-Up Minds: A Constructivist Approach to Artificial Intelligence , Chapter 1. 1991. R. Brooks, Intelligence without Reason . Computers and Thought, IJCAI. 1991 R. Brooks, A Robust layered Control System For a Mobile Robot. IEEE Journal of Robotics and Automation. 1986 Optional M. Minsky, Internal Grounding, Reflection, and Self-Consciousness. In Brain, Mind and Society, Proceedings of an International Conference on Brain, Mind and Society, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Brain, Mind and Society, Tohoku University, Japan, September 2005. March 8 Required Deb Roy. (in press). A Computational Model of Three Facets of Meaning. Chapter to appear in Symbols, Embodiment, and Meaning, de Vega, Glenberg, and Graesser, eds. Deb Roy. (2005). Grounding Words in Perception and Action: Computational Insights. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9(8): 389-96. Optional Siskind, J.M., Grounding the Lexical Semantics of Verbs in Visual Perception Using Force Dynamics and Event Logic, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), 15:31-90, August 2001. S.Narayanan. (1999) Reasoning about Actions in Narrative Understanding. Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. March 15 Guest Attendant: Daniel Dennett Required Daniel Dennett, Things about things. FINAL DRAFT for Lisbon Conference on Cognitive Science, May 1998 Daniel Dennett, Real Patterns, From Brainchildren Daniel Dennett, Styles of Mental Representations, From The Intentional Stance March 22 Student Presentations Jim & Ben: Required L Vaina and R Greenblatt. The use of thread memory in amnesic aphasia and concept learning. AI Working Paper (MIT AI Lab) R. Jackendoff. Towards and Explanatory Semantic Representation. Linguistic Inquiry. 1976. Landauer, T. K., Foltz, P. W., & Laham, D. (1998).Introduction to Latent Semantic Analysis. Discourse Processes, 25, 259-284. Optional L. Talmy. Force Dymanics in Language and Cognition. Cognitive Science, 12. 1988. L. Talmy, Semantics and Syntax of Motion. From PhD Dissertation. 1972. April 5 Guest Attendant: Daniel Dennett Required D. Dennett (1991). Two Black Boxes. D. Dennett (1988). Evolution, Error and Intentionality. in Y. Wilks and D. Partridge, eds, Sourcebook on the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, New Mexico University Press 1988. Daniel Dennett,(1987) Beyond Belief, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. From The Intentional Stance April 12 Student Presentations Soroush & Leo: Required Simon Garrod, Gillian Ferrier, Sibhan Campbell. In and on: investigating the functional geometry of spatial prepositions.Cognition 72 (1999) 167+189 Terry Regier and Laura Carlson. Grounding Spatial Language in Perception: An Empirical and Computational investigation. Journal of Exp Psychology (2001) Pattie Maes. (1987) Conference on Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications. Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications Quassim Cassam. Subjects and Objects. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 57, No. 3. (Sep., 1997), pp. 643-648. Optional Viktor Pekar. Specification in terms of interactional properties as a way to optimize the representation of spatial expressions. Takuo Watanabe and Akinori Yonezawa. Reflective Computation in Object-Oriented Concurrent Systems and Its Applications Quassim Cassam. Representing Bodies. 2002 April 19 Required Ludwig Wittgenstein. (1945). Philosophical Investigations. Section 1-32. Section 243-317. Optional Fleischman, M. and Roy, D. Situated Models of Meaning for Sports Video Retrieval. HLT/NAACL. Rochester, NY. April 2007. Fleischman, M. B. and Roy, D. Intentional Context in Situated Language Learning. Ninth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning , Ann Arbor, MI. June 2005. April 26 Guest Attendant: Ray Jackendoff Required Ray Jackendoff (2002) Foundations of Language Ch 9, Ch 10a, Ch 10b. (NOTE: three pdfs to read) Optional Ray Jackendoff (1987) "On Beyond Zebra". Cognition (26;2). May 3 Guest Attendant: Mark Bickhard Required M. Bickhard. Language as an Interaction System. Optional M. Bickhard. Interactive Knowing: The Metaphysics of Intentionality. M. Bickhard. Interactivism. May 10 TBA May 11 Guest Attendant: Noam Chomsky Time: 11am-12.30pm Location: e15-283a (Roth Room) Required Noam Chomsky (2000). New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind. Ch. 7. Footnotes . Optional Noam Chomsky (2000). New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind. Ch 2. May 17 Final Project Presentations Paper Pool Narayanan, Reasoning about Actions in Narrative Understanding. IJCAI, 1999. H. Werner and B. Kaplan. Symbol Formation. Wiley, 1963. (excerpts from chapters 1-4) E. Bates, Intentions, Conventions, and Symbols.. The Emergence of Symbols (Ch. 2). 1979. Millikan Nelson & Shaw, Developing a Socially Shared Symbolic System. In J. Byrnes & E. Amsel (Eds.) Language, literacy and cognitive development.(pp 27-58) Erlbaum. 2002. C. Ogden and I. Richards, The Meaning of Meaning . Chapter 1. 1923. C. Peirce, How to Make our Ideas Clear . Popular Science Monthly. 1878 BC Smith, On the Origin of Objects , MIT Press. 1999. Gibson, The Theory of Affordances , Chapter 8. Lawrence Earlbaum, 1986. B. Rosenblueth, N. Wiener, and J. Bigelow, Behavior. Purpose, Teleology. Philosophy of Science (10:1). 1943 M. Bratman, Israel, Pollack, Plans and Resource-Bounded Practical Reasoning. Artificial Intelligence (1;1)1988 Russell and Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. Part IV. 2002.* B. Blumberg, Action Selection in Hamsterdam: Lessons from Ethology . 3rd Int. Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior. 1994 A. Clark. Being There. Chapter 8.4. MIT Press, 2001. J. Haugeland. Syntax, Semantics, Physics. In Views into the Chinese Room (eds. Preston and Bishop). 2002. Heyes, C. M. (1998). Theory of mind in nonhuman primates. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21 (1): 101-134. D. Marr. Vision. Freeman, 1982. (Chapter 1: The philosophy and approach). A. Newell. You can't play 20 questions with nature and win: Projective comments on the papers of this symposium. In W. |