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Philosophy of Technology Papers

Although this is neither up-to-date nor comprehensive, below is a list of selected papers about philosophy of technology, including digital humanism, AI and sentience, and the relationship between humans and machines.

Books

  1. Edward Ashford Lee, The Coevolution: The Entwined Futures of Humans and Machines, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2020. (Open access)
  2. Edward Ashford Lee, Plato and the Nerd: The Creative Partnership of Humans and Technology, MIT Press, 2017. (Open access)

Papers

  1. Edward A. Lee, "Extended Abstract: Will Embodied AI Become Sentient?," in B. Steffen (Ed.), Bridging the Gap Between AI and Reality (AISoLA), LNCS 16220, Springer, 2025.
  2. Barbara Steffen, Edward A. Lee, Moshe Y. Vardi, and Bernhard Steffen, "It's Not the AI - It's Each of Us! Ten Commandments for the Wise & Responsible Use of AI," arXiv, 2511.15740 [cs.CY], 2025.
  3. Barbara Steffen, Edward A. Lee, and Bernhard Steffen (Eds.), Let's Talk AI: Interdisciplinarity Is a Must, LNCS 15000, Springer, 2025.
  4. Edward A. Lee, "Certainty vs. Intelligence," in AISoLA: Bridging the Gap Between AI and Reality, LNCS 15217, Springer, 2024.
  5. Edward A. Lee, "Are we in control?," in H. Werthner, C. Ghezzi, J. Kramer, J. Nida-RĂ¼melin, B. Nuseibeh, E. Prem, and A. Stanger (Eds.), Introduction to Digital Humanism, Springer, Cham, pp. 165-174, 2024.
  6. Edward A. Lee, "What Can Deep Neural Networks Teach Us About Embodied Bounded Rationality," Frontiers in Psychology, Vol. 25, 2022.
  7. Edward A. Lee, "Determinism," ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 1-34, 2021.
  8. Edward A. Lee, "Are we losing control?," in H. Werthner, E. Prem, E. A. Lee, and C. Ghezzi (Eds.), Perspectives on Digital Humanism, Springer, Cham, pp. 3-7, 2021.
  9. Hannes Werthner, Erich Prem, Edward A. Lee, and Carlo Ghezzi (Eds.), Perspectives on Digital Humanism, Springer, Cham, 2021. (Open access)
  10. Edward A. Lee, "Observation and Interaction," in International Conference on Language and Automata Theory and Applications (LATA), Springer, pp. 31-42, 2019.
  11. Edward A. Lee, "Modeling in Engineering and Science," Communications of the ACM, Vol. 62, No. 1, 2019.
  12. Edward A. Lee, "Is Software the Result of Top-Down Intelligent Design or Evolution?," Communications of the ACM, Vol. 61, No. 9, pp. 34-36, 2018.
  13. Edward A. Lee, "What is Real-Time Computing? A Personal View," IEEE Design & Test, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 64-72, 2018.
  14. Edward A. Lee and Marjan Sirjani, "What Good are Models?," in Formal Aspects of Component Software (FACS), LNCS 11222, Springer, 2018.