Paul Thagard

Bots and Beasts

What Makes Machines, Animals, and People Smart?

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Produktbeschreibung

"An honest attempt to compare and analyze the intelligence of humans, animals, and computers by an eminent cognitive scientist and long-time Press author"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 143mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 402g
• ISBN-13: 9780262548540
• ISBN-10: 0262548542
• Artikelnr.: 68742571

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

TABLE OF CONTENTS...
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