Philosophical attitudes and artificial intelligence; a review of the work of Putnam, Dennett, Fodor, Pylyshyn and Pollock; a critique of the concepts of process and representations as used in the computer metaphor; an analysis of the conceptual connections of some common concepts to the human body form; an analysis of some necessary conditions for the ascription of some mental attributes; emotions, angels and extra-terrestrials; some limits to functionalist accounts of persons.
