Book ID: CBB000774489

The Mechanical Mind in History (2008)

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Husbands, Phil (Editor)
Holland, Owen (Editor)
Wheeler, Michael (Editor)


MIT Press
Publication date: 2008
Language: English


Publication Date: 2008
Physical Details: viii + 458 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index

Description Contributions by scientists, artists, historians, and philosophers explore efforts to understand and mechanically create intelligent behavior in natural and artificial systems. Partial contents:


Includes Chapters

Chapter Bullock, Seth (2008) Charles Babbage and the Emergence of Automated Reason. In: The Mechanical Mind in History (p. 19). unapi

Chapter Boden, Margaret A. (2008) D'Arcy Thompson: A Grandfather of A-Life. In: The Mechanical Mind in History (p. 41). unapi

Chapter Michie, Donald (2008) Alan Turing's Mind Machines. In: The Mechanical Mind in History (p. 61). unapi

Chapter Hodges, Andrew (2008) What Did Alan Turing Mean by “Machine”?. In: The Mechanical Mind in History (p. 75). unapi

Chapter Husbands, Philip; Holland, Owen (2008) The Ratio Club: A Hub of British Cybernetics. In: The Mechanical Mind in History (p. 91). unapi

Chapter Asaro, Peter M. (2008) From Mechanisms of Adaptation to Intelligence Amplifiers: The Philosophy of W. Ross Ashby. In: The Mechanical Mind in History (p. 149). unapi

Chapter Bird, Jon; Di Paolo, Ezequiel A. (2008) Gordon Pask and His Maverick Machines. In: The Mechanical Mind in History (p. 185). unapi

Chapter Horáková, Jana; Kelemen, Jozef (2008) The Robot Story: Why Robots Were Born and How They Grew Up. In: The Mechanical Mind in History (p. 283). unapi

Chapter Wheeler, Michael (2008) God's Machines: Descartes on the Mechanization of Mind. In: The Mechanical Mind in History (p. 307). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Asaro, Peter M.
Bostrom, Nick
Castañeda, Claudia
Cobb, Matthew
Emmech, Claus
Helmreich, Stefan
Journals
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Social Studies of Science
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Publishers
Blackwell Publishers
Columbia University Press
MIT Press
Oxford University Press
Routledge
Springer
Concepts
Artificial intelligence
Artificial life
Intelligence
Automata; robotics; cyborgs
Cybernetics
Philosophy of science
People
Ashby, W. Ross
Bar-Hillel, Yehoshua
Haraway, Donna Jeanne
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
Von Neumann, John
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
17th century
18th century
20th century, early
Places
Europe
United Kingdom
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