Some Philosophical Problems ...

Some Philosophical Problems from the Standpoint of Artificial Intelligence by John McCarthy and Patrick J. Hayes was published in 1969 in Machine Intelligence 4. It is the basic paper on situation calculus.

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@InCollection{McCHay69,
author = "John McCarthy and Patrick J. Hayes",
title = "Some Philosophical Problems from the Standpoint of
Artificial Intelligence",
booktitle = "Machine Intelligence 4",
editor = "B. Meltzer and D. Michie",
pages = "463--502",
publisher = "Edinburgh University Press",
year = "1969",
note = "reprinted in McC90",
}

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. I sometimes make changes suggested in them. - John McCarthy

An improved version of situation calculus that includes occurrence axioms is included in Actions and other events in situation calculus