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    Languages with self-reference I: Foundations.Donald Perlis - 1985 - Artificial Intelligence 25 (3):301-322.
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    A Re‐Evaluation of Story Grammars.Alan M. Frisch & Donald Perlis - 1981 - Cognitive Science 5 (1):79-86.
    Black and Wilensky (1979) have made serious methodological errors in analyzing story grammars, and in the process they have committed additional errors in applying formal language theory. Our arguments involve clarifying certain aspects of knowledge representation crucial to a proper treatment of story understanding.Particular criticisms focus on the following shortcomings of their presentation: 1) an erroneous statement from formal language theory, 2) misapplication of formal language theory to story grammars, 3) unsubstantiated and doubtful analogies with English grammar, 4) various non (...)
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  3. Virtual symposium on virtual mind.Patrick Hayes, Stevan Harnad, Donald Perlis & Ned Block - 1992 - Minds and Machines 2 (3):217-238.
    When certain formal symbol systems (e.g., computer programs) are implemented as dynamic physical symbol systems (e.g., when they are run on a computer) their activity can be interpreted at higher levels (e.g., binary code can be interpreted as LISP, LISP code can be interpreted as English, and English can be interpreted as a meaningful conversation). These higher levels of interpretability are called "virtual" systems. If such a virtual system is interpretable as if it had a mind, is such a "virtual (...)
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    Completeness results for circumscription.Donald Perlis & Jack Minker - 1986 - Artificial Intelligence 28 (1):29-42.
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    Languages with self-reference II.Donald Perlis - 1988 - Artificial Intelligence 34 (2):179-212.
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    (1 other version)Consciousness as self-function.Donald R. Perlis - 1997 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 4 (5-6):509-25.
    I argue that consciousness is an aspect of an agent's intelligence, hence of its ability to deal adaptively with the world. In particular, it allows for the possibility of noting and correcting the agent's errors, as actions performed by itself. This in turn requires a robust self-concept as part of the agent's world model; the appropriate notion of self here is a special one, allowing for a very strong kind of self-reference. It also requires the capability to come to see (...)
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    Nonmonotonicity and the scope of reasoning.David W. Etherington, Sarit Kraus & Donald Perlis - 1991 - Artificial Intelligence 52 (3):221-261.
  8. The roots of self-awareness.Michael L. Anderson & Donald R. Perlis - 2005 - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 4 (3):297-333.
    In this paper we provide an account of the structural underpinnings of self-awareness. We offer both an abstract, logical account.
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  9. Memory, reason and time: the Step-Logic approach.Jennifer Elgot-Drapkin, Michael Miller & Donald Perlis - 1991 - In Robert C. Cummins (ed.), Philosophy and AI: Essays at the Interface. Cambridge: MIT Press. pp. 79--103.
     
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    Circumscribing with sets.Donald Perlis - 1987 - Artificial Intelligence 31 (2):201-211.
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    Autocircumscription.Donald Perlis - 1988 - Artificial Intelligence 36 (2):223-236.
  12. Symbol systems.Michael L. Anderson & Donald R. Perlis - 2002 - In L. Nagel (ed.), Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. Macmillan.
     
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    (1 other version)Three new publication categories for the Artificial Intelligence Journal.A. G. Cohn & Donald R. Perlis - 1999 - Artificial Intelligence 112 (1-2):251-252.
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    Bica and beyond: How biology and anomalies together contribute to flexible cognition.Donald Perlis - 2010 - International Journal of Machine Consciousness 2 (2):261-271.
  15. Errata: Putting One's Foot in One's Head--Part I: Why.Donald Perlis - 1991 - Noûs 25 (5):776-776.
    The studies of mind and language have traditionally been linked to one another. Indeed, theories of reference have over time brought more and more mind into meaning. Here I argue that the links must be made far stronger still if we are to understand either. I offer some criticism of the causal-functionalist theories of reference on this ground, and present some ideas for improvements. The upshot will be that intentionality is largely internal and very real indeed, that it provides a (...)
     
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    A logic-based model of intention formation and action for multi-agent subcontracting.John Grant, Sarit Kraus & Donald Perlis - 2005 - Artificial Intelligence 163 (2):163-201.
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    Postulates for revising BDI structures.John Grant, Sarit Kraus, Donald Perlis & Michael Wooldridge - 2010 - Synthese 175 (S1):39-62.
    The process of rationally revising beliefs in the light of new information is a topic of great importance and long-standing interest in artificial intelligence. Moreover, significant progress has been made in understanding the philosophical, logical, and computational foundations of belief revision. However, very little research has been reported with respect to the revision of other mental states, most notably propositional attitudes such as desires and intentions. In this paper, we present a first attempt to formulate a general framework for understanding (...)
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    Automated inference in active logics.Michael Miller & Donald Perlis - 1996 - Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics 6 (1):9-27.
    ABSTRACT Certain problems in commonsense reasoning lend themselves to the use of non-standard formalisms which we call active logics. Among these are problems of objects misidentification. In this paper we describe some technical issues connected with automated inference in active logics, using particular object misidentification problems as illustrations. Control of exponential growth of inferences is a key issue. To control this growth attention is paid to a limited version of an inference rule for negative introspection. We also present some descriptive (...)
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    An extension of Ackermann's set theory.Donald Perlis - 1972 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 37 (4):703-704.
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    Belief-level way stations.Donald Perlis - 1984 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 7 (4):639.
  21. Consciousness and complexity: The cognitive Quest.Donald R. Perlis - 1995 - Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence 14:309-21.
     
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    Hawkins on intelligence: Fascination and frustration.Donald Perlis - 2005 - Artificial Intelligence 169 (2):184-191.
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    (1 other version)Putting one's foot in one's head -- part 1: Why.Donald Perlis - 1991 - Noûs 25 (4):435-55.
    The studies of mind and language have traditionally been linked to one another. Indeed, theories of reference (meaning, intentionality, content) have over time brought more and more mind into meaning. Here I argue that the links must be made far stronger still if we are to understand either. I offer some criticism of the causal-functionalist theories of reference on this ground, and present some ideas for improvements. The upshot will be that intentionality is largely internal and very real indeed, that (...)
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    Truth and meaning.Donald Perlis - 1989 - Artificial Intelligence 39 (2):245-250.
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    Whose category error?Donald Perlis - 1983 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 6 (4):606.