Bots and Beasts: What Makes Machines, Animals, and People Smart?

ISBN-13: 9780262045940 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 312 str.

Paul Thagard

Recenzje

"There is a lot to like in Thagard's book....an enjoyable read...continually thought provoking....Intelligence is likely a multi-faceted and multi-dimensional concept, and Thagard does illuminate many of its features for humans, animals, and machines."
Essays in Philosophy


"...written for an educated general audience...Thagard does an admirable job of providing clear yet succinct explanations....the book should be of particular interest to instructors teaching classes in philosophy of mind or philosophy of technology."
Teaching Philosophy

Spis treści

Preface xi
1 Attributing Minds to Machines and Animals 1
2 Prodigious People 21
3 Marvelous Machines 55
4 Amazing Animals 91
5 Human Advantages 131
6 When Did Minds Begin? 159
7 The Morality of Bots and Beasts 193
8 The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence 225
Acknowledgments 249
Notes 251
Index 283

O autorze

Paul Thagard, a philosopher and cognitive scientist, is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo. He is the author of Brain-Mind, Natural Philosophy, The Cognitive Science of Science, Hot Thought, Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Science (the last three published by the MIT Press), and many other books. He writes a popular blog for Psychology Today and can be found at paulthagard.com.