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
- The Nature of Law (Spring 2015)
- Pragmatism (Fall 2010)
- Personhood in Philosophy and Law (Spring 2009)
Representative Publications
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Selected publications are available on Professor Chopra's web site.
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Samir Chopra and Laurence White, A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents, University of Michigan Press, 2011
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Richard Booth, Samir Chopra, Thomas Meyer, and Aditya Ghose, Double Preference for Generalised Belief Change, Artificial Intelligence, 174(16-17): 1339-1368, (2010).
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Samir Chopra and Scott Dexter, Free Software and the Economics of Information Justice, Ethics and Information Technology, DOI 10.1007/s10676-010-9226-6. Samir Chopra, Rights for Autonomous Artificial Agents, Communications of the ACM, 53(8): 38-40 (2010)
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Samir Chopra and Laurence White, Artificial Agents and the Contracting Problem: A Solution via an Agency Analysis, University of Illinois Journal of Law. Technology and Policy, 363, 2009.
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Samir Chopra and Scott Dexter, The Freedoms of Software and its Ethical Uses, Ethics and Information Technology, 11(4): 287-297 (2009).
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Samir Chopra and Scott Dexter, Free Software and the Political Philosophy of the Cyborg World, ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society, 37(2): 41-52, (2007).
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Samir Chopra, Aditya Ghose, Thomas Meyer, and Ka-Shu Wong, Iterated Revision and the Axiom of Recovery, Journal of Philosophical Logic, 37(5): 501-520, (2008)
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Samir Chopra and Scott Dexter, Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software, Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture, 2007
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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
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Samir Chopra, Aditya Ghose and Thomas Meyer, Social Choice Theory, Belief Merging and Strategy-Proofness, Information Fusion, 7(1):61-79, 2006
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Richard Booth, Samir Chopra, Aditya Ghose and Thomas Meyer, Belief Liberation (and Retraction), Studia Logica, 79(1):47-72, 2005
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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
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Samir Chopra and Laurence White, Artificial Agents - Personhood in Law and Philosophy, in Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2004
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Samir Chopra, Aditya Ghose and Thomas Meyer, Non-prioritized Ranked Belief Change, Journal of Philosophical Logic, 32(4):417-443, 2003
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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
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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)
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Samir Chopra and Rohit Parikh, Relevance Sensitive Belief Structures, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 28(1-4): 259-285 (2000)
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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)
