Yorick's World
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artificial intelligence
Author_Peter Caws
broader conception
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continental philosophy
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essay collection
french philosopher
french philosophy
human history
iconoclastic treatment
professional philosophers
quantitative description
scientific explanation
scientific practice
social implications
social life
social practice
sociology and psychology
surrealism
technological rationality
vexing problems
Product details
- ISBN 9780520079199
- Weight: 771g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 16 Apr 1993
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Peter Caws provides a fresh and often iconoclastic treatment of some of the most vexing problems in the philosophy of science: explanation, induction, causality, evolution, discovery, artificial intelligence, and the social implications of technological rationality. Caws's work has been shaped equally by the insights of Continental philosophy and a concern with scientific practice. In these twenty-eight essays spanning more than a quarter of a century, he ranges from discussions of the work of French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, to relations between science and surrealism, to the concept of intentionality, to the limits of quantitative description. A lively mix of history, theory, speculation, and analysis, Yorick's World presents a vision of science that includes human history and social life. It will interest professional philosophers and scientists, and at the same time its directness will make it readily accessible to nontechnical readers.
Peter Caws is University Professor of Philosophy at George Washington University. Among his recent books are Sartre (1984), and Structuralism: The Art of the Intelligible (1988).
