Guilty Robots, Happy Dogs: The Question of Alien Minds - Hardcover

McFarland, David

 
9780199219292: Guilty Robots, Happy Dogs: The Question of Alien Minds

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McFarland looks not only at philosophy, but also examines new evidence from the science of animal behaviour plus the latest developments in robotics and artificial intelligence, to show how many different - and sometimes surprising - conclusions we can draw about the nature of 'alien minds'.

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David McFarland is well known for his studies in animal behavior and more recently the broadening of this understanding to "artificial ethology" and robotics. He is the author of a number of books, including Animal Behaviour: Psychobiology, Ethology, and Evolution, and OUP's Companion to Animal Behaviour as well as the OPR Animal Behaviour (2006).


David McFarland is an Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, having retired from his post of University Reader in Animal Behaviour at the Department of Zoology in 2000. Since then he has held a post of Professor of Biological Robotics at the University of West of England.

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ISBN 10:  0199219303 ISBN 13:  9780199219308
Verlag: OUP Oxford, 2009
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