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Dear sal:

In connection with the forthcoming study of AI and
Philosophy at the Behavioral Sciences Center, we believe
that it would be desirable to have a small conference or
workshop on this topic that would involve a larger group of
scholars than just those in the study group.  We would like
to solicit your reactions to this suggestion and ideas on
how it should be organized.  A two day meeting (probably a
Friday and Saturday) sometime in October seemed most
appropriate to us.  We suggest having invited papers
distributed in sufficient time for the workshop participants
to have read them, but also to select one participant to
serve as official commentator for each paper.  The format of
the workshop would then be to have a brief presentation of a
paper, followed by the remarks of the commentator, the
response of the author, and general discussion.  This format
would allow for three or four papers presented per day, or a
total of six or eight for the workshop.  Since this is to be
an interdisciplinary workshop, it seems desirable that the
authors and commentators be from different disciplines.

We envision officially inviting about twenty people from
outside the study group, with an informal invitation being
extended to the local Philosophy and AI communities.  We
have attached a list of prospective participants.  We would
like to hear your general reaction to this idea, plus any
ideas you have regarding the date or format of the workshop,
specific topics to be discussed, and potential participants,
speakers, or commentators.  At the moment all ideas are
quite tentative, so please do not hesitate to recommend
changes to our suggestions.
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Sincerely,
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John McCarthy
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Robert Moore
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SUGGESTED PARTICIPANTS 
FOR 
TWO DAY WORKSHOP ON AI AND PHILOSOPHY
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

David Marr          MIT
Mitch Marcus        MIT
Jon Doyle           MIT
Brian Smith         MIT
Terry Winograd      Stanford
Richard Weyhrauch   Stanford
Lewis Creary        Stanford
Barbara Grosz       SRI
Jerry Hobbs         SRI
Jane Robinson       SRI
Herbert Simon       CMU
Bill Woods          BBN
Drew McDermott      Yale


PHILOSOPHY

Patrick Suppes      Stanford
Julius Moravcsik    Stanford
John Perry          Stanford
Noam Chomsky        MIT
Jerry Fodor         MIT
Ned Block           MIT
Hubert Dreyfus      Berkeley
David Kaplan        UCLA
Hilary Putnam       Harvard
Aaron Sloman        Sussex
Barbara Partee      UMass
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. ⊃
.ltr(|Professor Daniel Dennett↓Department of Philosophy↓Tufts University, Medford, Mass. 02155|,Professor Dennett);
.ltr(|Professor John Haugeland↓Department of Philosophy↓University of Pittsburgh
.↓Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213|,Professor Haugeland);
.ltr(|Professor Patrick, Hayes↓Computing Centre↓University of Essex
.↓Colchester, Essex CO4 3SQ↓ENGLAND|,Professor Hayes);
.ltr(|Professor Marvin Minsky↓Department of Electrical Engineering
.↓Massachusetts Institute of Technology↓Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139|,Professor Minsky);
.ltr(|Professor Zenon Pylyshyn↓Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
.↓Massachusetts Institute of Psychology↓Cambridge, Mass. 02139|,Professor Pylyshyn);