Turing
Subtitle: a Natural Philosopher
By: Andrew Hodges
Series: The great philosophers -- III; Great philosophers (Phoenix (Firm : London, England)) -- 3
Publisher: Phoenix; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: 1997
Place of publication: London, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 58
Subjects: Turing, Alan Mathison, -- 1912-1954; Artificial intelligence; Mathematicians -- Great Britain -- biography
Genres: philosophy
First sentence: Alan Turing dared to ask whether a machine could think.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 56-57).
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: 3; title: The Nature of Turing's World
pagenum: 4; title: The Turing Machine and the Entscheidigungsproblem
pagenum: 7; title: Church's Thesis and Turing's Thesis
pagenum: 15; title: The Universal Turing Machine
pagenum: 17; title: Thinking the Uncomputable
pagenum: 19; title: Turing and Wittgenstein
pagenum: 22; title: Triumph of the Computer
pagenum: 24; title: The Training of Thought
pagenum: 31; title: The Turing Test
pagenum: 33; title: The Uncomputable Revisited
pagenum: 47; title: Growing Crisis
pagenum: 53; title: Notes
pagenum: 56; title: The Collected Works
pagenum: 58; title: Starting-Points for Further Reading
pagenum: 58