MACHINES AND THOUGHT The Legacy of Alan Turing Volume I (Mind Association Occasional Series)

MILLICAN Peter, CLARK Andy

ISBN 10: 0198235933 / ISBN 13: 9780198235934

Published by Clarendon Press Oxford University Press, 1996. 9780198235934, 1997

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1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine). Pp. x + 297 (previous owner's neat inscription on front free endpaper).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: MACHINES AND THOUGHT The Legacy of Alan Turing Volume I (Mind Association Occasional Series)
• Publisher: Clarendon Press Oxford University Press, 1996. 9780198235934
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198235933
• ISBN 13: 9780198235934
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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 program at Washington State University, St Louis, Missouri. He is the author of Microcognition (MIT Press 1989) and Associative Engines (MIT Press 1993).