Course Plan

19.10.2021 Introduction
Part 1: The Classical Question to AI: Do machines think?
26.10.2021 Turing (1950)
2.11.2021 Searle (1984)
Part 2: The Question of AI: What does it mean to think?
9.11.2021 Dreyfus (1972) / Ensmenger (2012)
16.11.2021 Smolensky (1988)
23.11.2021 Buckner (2019)
30.11.2021 AI in Practice: Presentation and Discussion with the start-up “Util”
Part 3: A more recent question: How do machines act and interact?
7.12.2021 Collins/Kusch (1999)
14.12.2021 de Sio/van den Hoven (2018)
21.12.2021 Dubber (2020)
Part 4: Philosophical Perspectives (only LMU students)
11.1.2022 AI and Aesthetics
18.1.2022 AI and Autonomy/Robotics
25.1.2022 AI and Posthumanism
1.2.2022 Ethical Problems of AI
8.2.2022 Closing Discussion