The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
Published in April 1990
Book
Hardback
460 pages
978-0-19-824855-2 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of essays looks into the philosophical arguments behind artificial intelligence and whether one can equate such concepts as intelligence, understanding and thinking to computers. Classic arguments, such as the Chinese room are discussed as well as modern arguments, such as if one should differentiate between the connectionist computers and the digital computers. There is an introduction written by the editor, who is a leading name in artificial intelligence and upholds the view that, given time, computers will be able to match humans in intelligence.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 200 mm
Width: 130 mm
Weight
513 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-824855-2 (9780198248552)
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Content
A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity, Warren S.McCulloch and Walter H.Pitts; computing machinery and intelligence, Alan M.Turing; minds, brains and programs, John R.Searle; escaping from the Chinese room, Margaret A.Boden; computer science as empirical enquiry - symbols and search, Allen Newell and Herbert A.Simon; artificial intelligence - a personal view, David C.Marr; cognitive wheels - the frame problem of AI, Daniel C. Dennett; the naive physics manifesto, Patrick J.Hayes; a critique of pure reason, Drew McDermott; motives, mechanisms and emotions, Aaron Sloman; distributed representations, Geoffrey E.Hinton et al; connectionism, competence and explanation, Andy Clark; making a mind versus modelling the brain - artificial intelligence back at a branch-point, Hubert L.Dreyfus and Stuart E.Dreyfus; some reductive strategies in cognitive neurobiology, Paul M.Churchland.