Machines and Thought - The Legacy of Alan Turing, Volume I

Zusatztext A fascinating series of essays ... we can all learn by reading these essays because they encourage us to explore issues beyond our normal sphere of expertise. Informationen zum Autor Peter Millican is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Computer Studies at the University of Leeds. Andy Clark is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Philosophy/Neuroscience/Psychology Project at Washington University, St Louis, Missouri. Klappentext This is the first of two volumes of essays in commemoration of Alan Turing! whose pioneering work in the theory of artificial intelligence and computer science continues to provoke wide discussion. The essays focus on three questions: What! if any! are the limits on machine "thinking"? Can a machine be genuinely intelligent? And! Might we ourselves be biological machines? Contributors include Chris Fields! Joseph Ford! Robert M. French! Anthony Galton! Robin Gandy! Clark Glymour! J. R. Lucas! Donald Michie! Peter Mott! Ajit Narayanan! Herbert A. Simon! Aaron Sloman! Ian Stewart! and Blay Whitby. Zusammenfassung This is the first of two volumes of essays on the intellectual legacy of Alan Turing, whose work in artificial intelligence and computer science made him one of the seminal thinkers of the century. The Turing test, the Turing machine, and the Church-Turing thesis are all covered. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Robert M. French: Subcognition and the Limits of the Turing Test 2: Donald Michie: Turing's Test and Conscious Thought 3: Blay Whitby: The Turing Test: AI's Biggest Blind Alley? 4: Ajit Narayanan: The Intentional Stance and the Imitation Game 5: Herbert Simon: Machine as Mind 6: J. R. Lucas: Minds, Machines, and Gödel: A Retrospect 7: Robin Gandy: Human versus Mechanical Intelligence 8: Antony Galton: The Church-Turing Thesis: Its Nature and Status 9: Chris Fields: Measurement and Computational Description 10: Aaron Sloman: Beyond Turing Equivalence 11: Iain A. Stewart: The Demise of the Turing Machine in Complexity Theory 12: Peter Mott: A Grammar-Based Approach to Common-Sense Reasoning 13: Joseph Ford: Chaos: Its Past, its Present, but Mostly its Future 14: Clark Glymour: The Hierarchies of Knowledge and the Mathematics of Discovery ...

Product details

• Authors: Peter (Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Millican, Peter Clark Millican
• Assisted by: Andy Clark (Editor), Peter Millican (Editor), Millican Peter (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.03.1999
• EAN: 9780198238768
• ISBN: 978-0-19-823876-8
• No. of pages: 308
• Series: Mind Association Occasional Series; Legacy of Alan Turing; Mind Association Occasional Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Artificial Intelligence, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophy of Mind, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy, COMPUTERS / Artificial Intelligence / General