The Boundaries of Humanity: Humans, Animals, Machines - Softcover

 
9780520072077: The Boundaries of Humanity: Humans, Animals, Machines
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0520072073 ISBN 13: 9780520072077
Verlag: University of California Press, 1991

Inhaltsangabe

To the age-old debate over what it means to be human, the relatively new fields of sociobiology and artificial intelligence bring new, if not necessarily compatible, insights. What have these two fields in common? Have they affected the way we define humanity? These and other timely questions are addressed with colorful individuality by the authors of The Boundaries of Humanity.

Leading researchers in both sociobiology and artificial intelligence combine their reflections with those of philosophers, historians, and social scientists, while the editors explore the historical and contemporary contexts of the debate in their introductions. The implications of their individual arguments, and the often heated controversies generated by biological determinism or by mechanical models of mind, go to the heart of contemporary scientific, philosophical, and humanistic studies.

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James J. Sheehan is Dickason Professor of Humanities at Stanford University. Morton Sosna is a Fellow of the Stanford Humanities Center.

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"An excellent interdisciplinary collage . . . of considerable interest to philosophers, psychologists, computer scientists (of a theoretical stripe), sociologists, and others. . . . Rethinking our relationship to animals is very relevant, I believe, to thinking clearly about our current relationships to current (and future) machines."—Keith Gunderson, University of Minnesota

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"An excellent interdisciplinary collage . . . of considerable interest to philosophers, psychologists, computer scientists (of a theoretical stripe), sociologists, and others. . . . Rethinking our relationship to animals is very relevant, I believe, to thinking clearly about our current relationships to current (and future) machines."Keith Gunderson, University of Minnesota

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Verlag
University of California Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1991
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0520072073
ISBN 13 
9780520072077
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
274
Herausgeber
Sheehan James J., Sosna Morton
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