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Product details
- ISBN 9780198235934
- Weight: 530g
- Dimensions: 144 x 225mm
- Publication Date: 28 Nov 1996
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 be widely discussed today. A group of prominent academics from a wide range of disciplines focus on three questions famously raised by Turing: What, if any, are the limits on machine `thinking'? Could a machine be genuinely intelligent? Might we ourselves be biological machines, whose thought consists essentially in nothing more than the interaction of neurons according to strictly determined rules? The discussion of these fascinating issues is accessible to non-specialists and stimulating for all readers.
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).
