Philosophy 2018 - Philosophy after AI: mind, language and action

The goal of this one-day symposium is to claim for a philosophical approach to the latest issues about the study of human mind developed in the field of Artificial Intelligence.
First, the mind-body problem can be read again involving the neuroscientific research (e.g. mirror neurons, researches on memory and the relationship between brain and action, the reductionist approach), including the provocative theory of the extended mind which enlivened the debate placing the mind-body-scaffolding problem.
The second question is about the philosophical category of subject: how to set out the boundaries of the self?
The third issue concerns the nature of learning and creativity and the current researches in the field of machine learning. Since learning and creativity have been connected to the acquisition of language and the linguistic change, they have been investigated by linguists and philosophers.
The fourth issue is the philosophical theme of teleology, which has been widely debated in cybernetics, crosses all the issues above mentioned. Functionalism, simulation, representationalism, mentalism, identity of explanatory principles are the philosophical milestones which follow the development of cognitive sciences and AI since the last century.
Finally, the main issue, in the shadow of H. Simon, concerns what does “artificial” mean.
We invite contributions on the following topics (but not exclusively):
Philosophy, science and AI
Mind-body problem and AI
Truth, post-truth and AI
Language and cognition
The self and robotics
Creativity, machine-learning and language
Social media, devices and human sociality