Selected works of Brian Cantwell Smith: Philosophy of AI
The Promise of AI: Reckoning and Judgement
(2019) Published by MIT Press, a public-facing critique of contemporary AI. Highlights the importance of a genuine world for reference and anything deserving the label 'intelligence'. Came out before ChatGPT, but still relevant.
From E & M to M & E
(edited 2009, v0.80) A journey through the landscape of computing. 'Electricity & Magnetism' to 'Metaphysics & Epistemology'. 23 pages.
Original published in 2008 (Luciano Floridi, ed., Philosophy of Computing and Information: 5 Questions, Automatic Press/VIP)
Formality and Separation
(1991) Position paper given at the Oksnoen Workshop, June 1991. 16 pages.
Requiem for the Computational Theory of Mind
(edited 2010) Talk given as the Presidential Address for the 25th Anniversary Meeting of the Society for Philosophy & Psychology. 22 pages.
Original published in 1999 (Presidential Address, 25th Anniversary Meeting, Society for Philosophy & Psychology, June 21, 1999)
Défaire l'Occident
(2013) Notes for a talk ('Dismantle the West') given at a summer school in Plainartige, France. 26 pages.
Four Dialects of Computing
(1999) Discussion of four fundamental dialects: meaning/mechanism; abstract/concrete; static/dynamic; singular/plural (one/many). 24 pages.
Subjectivity & Objectivity
(2009, v0.80) Presented as the Thomas Langford Inaugural Lecture at Duke University. 23 pages.
Original published in 2001 (Presented as the Thomas Langford Inaugural Lecture at Duke University on December 4, 2001, in conjunction with taking up the Kimberly Jenkins University Professorship in Philosophy and New Technology.)