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Computers, Minds, and Conduct by Graham Button, Jeff Coulter, John R. E. Lee, Wes Sharrock is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This book provides a sustained and penetrating critique of a wide range of views in modern cognitive science and philosophy of the mind, from Turing's famous test for intelligence in machines to recent work in computational linguistic theory. <p>While discussing many of the key arguments and topics, the authors also develop a distinctive analytic approach. Drawing on the methods of conceptual analysis first elaborated by Wittgenstein and Ryle, the authors seek to show that these methods still have a great deal to offer in the field of the cognitive theory and the philosophy of mind, providing a powerful alternative to many of the positions put forward in the contemporary literature.</p> <p>Amoung the many issues discussed in the book are the following: the Cartesian roots of modern conceptions of mind; Searle's 'Chinese Room' thought experiment; Fodor's 'language of thought' hypothesis; the place of 'folk psychology' in cognitivist thought; and the question of whether any machine may be said to 'think' or 'understand' in the ordinary senses of these words.</p> <p>Wide ranging, up-to-date and forcefully argued, this book represents a major intervention in contemporary debates about

Who reads Computers, Minds, and Conduct?

Author

Graham Button, Jeff Coulter, John R. E. Lee, Wes Sharrock

Publisher

Polity Press; Basil Blackwell [distributor]

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780745612874

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Computer Science, Reference