 One example of a program in artificial intelligence that was explicitly conceived in philosophical terms and designed for philosophical ends was the OSCAR project, developed by John Pollock but cut short by his death (Pollock 1989, 1995, 2006). The goal of OSCAR was construction of a computational agent: an “artificial intellect”. At the core of OSCAR was implementation of a theory of rationality. Pollock was explicit regarding the intersection of AI and philosophy of mind in that project: 