Morphing Intelligence - From Iq Measurement to Artificial Brains

Acclaimed philosopher Catherine Malabou traces the modern metamorphoses of intelligence, seeking to understand how neurobiological and neurotechnological advances have transformed our present-day view. She emphasizes the intertwined, networked relationships among the biological, the technological, and the symbolic.

List of contents

Translator's Foreword: Why I Translate So Intelligently: Translation Mètis in the Era of Google Translate
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1. g: Intelligence and Genetic Fate
2. The "Blue Brain"
3. Like a Pollock Painting
Conclusion
Postscript to the English Translation. Artificial Intelligence: The Fourth Blow to Our Narcissism
Notes
Index

About the author

Catherine Malabou. Translated by Carolyn Shread.

Summary

Acclaimed philosopher Catherine Malabou traces the modern metamorphoses of intelligence, seeking to understand how neurobiological and neurotechnological advances have transformed our present-day view. She emphasizes the intertwined, networked relationships among the biological, the technological, and the symbolic.

Additional text

In Morphing Intelligence, we see Catherine Malabou’s unique ability to mend empirical studies and neuroscience with biopolitics, Hegelian dialectics, and Kantian transcendentalism, weaving an elaborate . . . arachnean matrix.

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Malabou, Catherine (Professor of Modern European P Malabou, Catherine (Professor Of Modern European Philosophy Malabou, Malabou Catherine
• Assisted by: Carolyn Shread (Translation), Shread Carolyn (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9780231187374
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18737-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: The Wellek Library Lectures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, SCIENCE / History, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Intelligence & reasoning, COMPUTERS / Artificial Intelligence / General