--- abstract: "This paper, along with the following paper by John McCarthy, introduces some of the topics to be discussed at the IJCAI95 event `A philosophical encounter: An interactive presentation of some of the key philosophical problems in AI and AI problems in philosophy.' Philosophy needs AI in order to make progress with many difficult questions about the nature of mind, and AI needs philosophy in order to help clarify goals, methods, and concepts and to help with several specific technical problems. Whilst philosophical attacks on AI continue to be welcomed by a significant subset of the general public, AI defenders need to learn how to avoid philosophically naive rebuttals." altloc: - ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/groups/cog_affect/Sloman.ijcai95.ps.gz chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: 24 April 1995 conference: IJCAI95 confloc: 'Montreal, Canada.' contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Sloman given: A. honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 1995 date_type: published datestamp: 1998-07-18 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/07/19 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 719 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_postscript.png;/719/1/Sloman.ijcai95.ps.gz full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: unpub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: ~ lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:13 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: FALSE publication: ~ publisher: ~ refereed: FALSE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 8 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:33:33 subjects: - cog-psy - phil-epist - phil-mind - phil-sci succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: 'A philosophical encounter: An interactive presentation of some of the key philosophical problems in AI and AI problems in philosophy' type: confpaper userid: 142 volume: ~