Bye-Bye Agents? Not

  • Authors:
  • Cristiano Castelfranchi

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Internet Computing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Cristiano Castelfranchi discusses the weaknesess and the possible crisis of the agents paradigm. I examine some potentialities and ambitions of such an approach, which shouldn't be reduced to a technology. He disagrees with Hewitt identifying agents with cognitive (BDIA; beliefs, desires, intentions, and affect) agents, and with his opposition to agents organizations, which in fact presuppose agents and might be conceived as agents.