The Boundaries of humanity
Subtitle: humans, animals, machines
By: edited by James J. Sheehan and Morton Sosna.
Contributors: Sheehan, James J.; Sosna, Morton.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Sociobiology; Artificial intelligence; Culture; Human-animal relationships; Human-computer interaction
Description: 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--Publisher's description.
Notes: A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program.
Includes bibliographical references and index.