Philosophy of artificial intelligence
Subtitle: a critique of the mechanistic theory of mind
By: Rajakishore Nath.
Publisher: Universal Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boca Raton, Fla
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9781599429052
Subjects: Artificial intelligence -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The idea of artificial intelligence (AI); title: What is artificial intelligence?; title: The field of artificial intelligence; title: What computers can do; title: The computational model of mind; title: AI and the functional theory of mind; title: Philosophical presupposition of artificial intelligence; title: The nature of cognition; title: Representations; title: Functionalism and computationalism; title: Machine intelligence, competence, and creativity; title: Mind in artificial intelligence; title: Strong AI and weak AI (reductionism and non-reductionism); title: The limits of artificial intelligence; title: The general argument against ai; title: Gödel's argument; title: Searle's argument against AI; title: Putnam's argument against AI; title: Dreyfus argument against AI; title: Penrose's arguments; title: Argument against CRTM; title: The non-computational view of mind; title: Descartes' non-computational theory of mind; title: Chalmers on dualism; title: Emergentism; title: Arguments for non-computationalism; title: The consequences of non-computationalism; title: Consciousness and creativity; title: What is creativity?; title: Dimensions of creativity; title: Are there creative machines?; title: Creativity and consciousness; title: Machine consciousness as derivative; title: AI's failure in explaining consciousness.