Minds and computers : an introduction to the philosophy of artificial intelligence / Matt Carter
- Author
- Carter, Matt, 1975-
- Published
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2007]
- Copyright Date
- ©2007
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (ix, 222 pages : illustrations
Access Online
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Dualism -- Behaviourism -- Neuroanatomy -- Australian materialism -- Functionalism -- Formal systems -- Computability -- Universal machines -- Computationalism -- Search -- Games -- Machine reasoning -- Machines and language -- Human reasoning -- Human language -- Meaning -- Representation -- Artificial neural networks -- Minds and computers.
- Summary
- Could a computer have a mind? What kind of machine would this be? Exactly what do we mean by 'mind' anyway? The notion of the 'intelligent' machine, whilst continuing to feature in numerous entertaining and frightening fictions, has also been the focus of a serious and dedicated research tradition. Reflecting on these fictions, and on the research tradition that pursues 'Artificial Intelligence', raises a number of vexing philosophical issues. Minds and Computers introduces readers to these issues by offering an engaging, coherent, and highly approachable interdisciplinary introduction to the.
- Subject(s)
- Artificial intelligence
- Philosophy of mind
- Artificial intelligence—Philosophy
- Artificial Intelligence
- Intelligence artificielle—Philosophie
- Philosophie de l'esprit
- Intelligence artificielle
- COMPUTERS—Enterprise Applications—Business Intelligence Tools
- COMPUTERS—Intelligence (AI) & Semantics
- PHILOSOPHY / General
- ISBN
- 0748629300 (electronic bk.)
9780748629305 (electronic bk.)
1280762446
9781280762444
9786610762446
6610762449
0748620982
9780748620982
0748620990 (Paper)
9780748620999 (pbk.) - Digital File Characteristics
- data file
- Note
- Title from e-book title screen (viewed Oct. 11, 2007).
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-210) and index.
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