Artificial Intelligence

By John Haugeland,

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First Edition. Some markings on first end page. Some shelf and edge wear, small tears, to dust jacket. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Solid Book.

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I think computers don’t think, and this book taught me how to think about that. I admire it in part because it showed me, a professor of philosophy, how to do scientifically informed philosophy. Unlike so many books on the history of thinking about thinking, just the first chapter of this book is clear, accurate, insightful, and exciting. Equally so is Haugeland’s explanation of what a computer is, making an intellectual adventure of theoretical computer science.

Haugeland uses this to make a compelling case for thinking that computers could genuinely reason. And then he does something that we philosophers tend…

From Chauncey's list on get you thinking about nonhuman minds.

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