Minds, machines, and evolution
Subtitle: philosophical studies
By: edited by Christopher Hookway.
Contributors: Hookway, Christopher.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
Subjects: Philosophy.; Evolution -- Philosophy.; Artificial intelligence.; Animal intelligence.; Intellect.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: Naturalism, fallibilism, and evolutionary epistemology / Christopher Hookway; title: Historical entities and historical narratives / David Hull; title: Force and disposition in evolutionary theory / Elliott Sober; title: The evolution of animal intelligence / John Maynard Smith; title: Intentionality, syntactic structure and the evolution of language / Neil Tennant; title: Machines and consciousness / Yorick Wilks; title: Cognitive wheels / Daniel Dennett; title: Animal perception from an artificial intelligence viewpoint / Margaret Boden.