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City University of New York Graduate Center
Samir Chopra
Samir Chopra
  • Ph.D. CUNY Graduate Center
schopra [at-sign-here] sci [put-a-dot-here] brooklyn [put-a-dot-here] cuny [put-a-dot-here] edu

Research Interests

  • Philosophical foundations of artificial intelligence
  • Politics and ethics of technology
  • Legal theory of artificial agents
  • Philosophy of law
  • Logical foundations of artificial intelligence

Courses Recently Taught

  • At Brooklyn College:
    • Philosophy and Feminism
    • Modern Philosophy
    • Philosophy of Law
    • Computer Ethics
    • Philosophy of Science

Representative Publications

Selected publications are available on Professor Chopra's web site.

  • Samir Chopra and Scott Dexter, Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software, Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture, 2007
  • Samir Chopra, Aditya Ghose, Thomas Meyer and Ka-Shu Wong, Iterated Revision and the Axiom of Recovery, Journal of Philosophical Logic, forthcoming
  • Samir Chopra and Laurence White, Privacy and Artificial Agents, Or, Is Google Reading My Email?, in Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2007
  • Samir Chopra, Aditya Ghose and Thomas Meyer, Social Choice Theory, Belief Merging and Strategy-Proofness, Information Fusion, 7(1):61-79, 2006
  • Richard Booth, Samir Chopra, Aditya Ghose and Thomas Meyer, Belief Liberation (and Retraction), Studia Logica, 79(1):47-72, 2005
  • Samir Chopra and Laurence White, Attribution of Knowledge to Artificial Agents and their Principals, in Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2005
  • Samir Chopra and Laurence White, Artificial Agents - Personhood in Law and Philosophy, in Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2004
  • Samir Chopra, Aditya Ghose and Thomas Meyer, Non-prioritized Ranked Belief Change, Journal of Philosophical Logic, 32(4):417-443, 2003
  • Samir Chopra and Eric Martin, Generalized Logical Consequence: Making Room for Induction in the Logic of Science, Journal of Philosophical Logic, 28(31):245-280, 2002
  • Samir Chopra, Rohit Parikh and Renata Wassermann, Approximate Belief Revision, Logic Journal of the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), 9(6): 755-768 (2001)
  • Samir Chopra and Rohit Parikh, Relevance Sensitive Belief Structures, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 28(1-4): 259-285 (2000)
  • Samir Chopra, Konstantinos Georgatos, and Rohit Parikh, Relevance Sensitive Non-monotonic Inference for Belief Sequences, Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics, 11(1-2): 131-150 (2001)

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