<div dir="ltr"><br><div><div lang="en-DE" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-3336826535463198340WordSection1"><div id="m_-3336826535463198340divtagdefaultwrapper"><p align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">CFP Synthese Topical Collection:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15pt"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Artificial intelligence, Cognition and Embodiment</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Turing deemed the question “can machines think?” to be meaningless and, consequently, unworthy of philosophical discussion. Yet we now find ourselves in an era that researchers increasingly and unabashedly describe as the age of AI, and philosophers are taking seriously the possibility that certain current AI systems are capable of thinking, reasoning and other forms of cognitive activity—or that near-future AI systems plausibly will be. Indeed, some among their number argue that in developing powerful large language models such as Claude and ChatGPT, humanity has successfully created artificial minds. Others emphatically deny that such systems are minded—often arguing that cognition requires a capacity for engagement with worldly offerings that such systems, due to their disembodied nature, do not possess. For example, advocates of embodied-enactive approaches to cognitive science have argued that cognition is characterised by a form of adaptive autonomy that is, at least at present, the preserve of living organisms and is not exhibited by current AI systems—despite their impressive success on an ever-widening range of benchmarks and other canonical measures of intelligence.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">            This Topical Collection brings together a world leading group of philosophers in order to shed light on whether AI systems are plausibly cognitive (or whether they soon will be) and related questions concerning the profound ramifications of taking different forms of AI mindedness seriously. Suitable topics include the following:</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-top:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;color:black;line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Are certain AI systems minded? Can we plausibly ascribe to them mental states such as belief and desire? Do they perform intentional actions? If not, how should we interpret our intentional descriptions of their complex behaviours? </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;color:black;line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Do embodied-enactive approaches to cognition—or other views within the so-called ‘4E’ cognition family—offer good reasons for constraining cognition to living agents? Can they provide a principled reason to limit cognition to biological life? Are large language models or other generative AI systems plausibly cognitive in a philosophically interesting minimal sense? How might 4E approaches to social cognition help in characterising our interactions with LLMs? </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;color:black;line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">What are the implications of AI mindedness for understanding the epistemic status of AI systems? Do they plausibly have the mental capacities required to count as epistemic agents? Do they qualify as knowers? Do human-AI systems plausibly constitute hybrid epistemic agents?</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;color:black;line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">What can an embodied understanding of human intelligence tell us about the limitations of AI and the potential for AGI? Can embodied approaches to the mind shed light on the requirements for AGI status?</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></li></ul><p style="line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">*Deadline for submission* : Jan 30, 2027</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Submissions should be made Synthese’s Editorial Manager. Please ensure that papers are submitted under the “Artificial Intelligence, Cognition and Embodiment" Topical Collection.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height:15pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">For any questions, please contact the guest editor, Ian Robertson:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:ian.george.robertson@fau.de" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">ian.george.robertson@fau.de</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p></p></div></div><div style="font-size:large" class="gmail_default">Marcus</div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:proxima-nova-1,proxima-nova-2,Tahoma,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;border-spacing:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:18px"><tbody style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><tr style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><td style="padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:0px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;width:auto;height:30px"></td></tr><tr style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><td style="padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;width:auto"></td></tr><tr style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></tr></tbody></table></div></div>