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philosophy of science


                STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO

                  GRADUATE GROUP IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE

                             JOHN HAUGELAND

                        Department of Philosophy
                        University of Pittsburgh

                     UNDERSTANDING AND PERSONALITY

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has inherited a conception of  pure  under-
standing  from  modern  philosophy, especially Descartes and Kant.  How-
ever, developments within AI,  specifically  with  regard  to  knowledge
representation,  have  partially undermined this conception.  It will be
argued that they have not gone  far  enough  in  this.   In  particular,
``impurities'' like ego and affects must be included as well.

                        Thursday, April 23, 1987
                               4:00 P.M.
                         Knox 4, Amherst Campus

                            Co-sponsored by:

                     Department of Computer Science
                                  and
          Colloquium in the History and Philosophy of Science

Informal discussion at 8:00 P.M. at Stuart Shapiro's  house,  112  Park-
ledge Drive, Snyder, NY.  Call Bill Rapaport (Dept. of Computer Science,
636-3181), Gail Bruder (Dept. of Psychology, 636-3676), or Zeno Swijtink
(Dept. of Philosophy, 636-2444) for further information.