ABSTRACT
If you imagine an approach to philosophical psychology concerned in detail with the reasoning tasks performed by various parts of an intelligent mind, and their interactions, you have a good idea of what is meant in AI and cognitive psychology by an agent architecture. Confining itself to the AI tradition, this chapter describes the origins of these architectures in early work on means-end reasoning, and its elaboration as AI researchers began to address the cognitive makeup of sensing, acting robots in challenging real-world environments. Renewed interest in the role of future-directed intentions, both in philosophy and AI, grew out of this work. Throughout this process, computer scientists learned much from philosophers. Now philosophers have much to learn from their work.
