This course will focus on the question of what makes humans different from machines. In the first part, we'll study beliefs, memory and action in computers and humans — can machines think? Could your phone or laptop be part of your memory? The second part will be about morality: what gives us the ability to act morally, and is this the kind of thing that a machine could have? Is moral judgement a kind of computation? We'll also look at moral status — can a machine be harmed? Readings will be contemporary articles in philosophy, artificial intelligence, and psychology.
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