Thinking Computers and Virtual Persons
Essays on the Intentionality of Machines
Published on 1. January 1994
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-0-12-215495-9 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of essays includes provocative articles such as "Could a Machine Think?" and "Am I a computer?".
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Language
English
Place of publication
San Diego
United States
Publishing group
Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 195 mm
Weight
894 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-12-215495-9 (9780122154959)
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Content
Intentionality is Phlogiston, P. Resnick; real machines and virtual intentionality, C. Fields; the myth of virtual intentionality, D. Dennett; computationalism, E. Dietrich; the causal powers of CPUs, D. Cole; could a machine think?, P. Churchland and P. Churchland; minds, machines, Searle and Harnad, M. Dyer; putting one's foot in one's head, D. Perlis; syntactic semantics, W.J. Rapaport; am I a computer?, L. Angel; using representations to explain, C. Wallis; human reasoning about artificial intelligence, P.J. Hayes et al.