The Discovery of the Artificial
Subtitle: Behavior, Mind and Machines Before and Beyond Cybernetics
By: by Roberto Cordeschi
Series: Studies in Cognitive Systems -- 28; Studies in Cognitive Systems -- 28
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9789048160150; 9789401598705
Subjects: Humanities; Philosophy of mind; Artificial intelligence; History
Description: The book provides a valuable text for undergraduate and graduate courses on the historical and theoretical issues of Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence, Psychology, Neuroscience, and the Philosophy of Mind. The book should also be of interest for researchers in these fields, who will find in it analyses of certain crucial issues in both the earlier and more recent history of their disciplines, as well as interesting overall insights into the current debate on the nature of mind. From the reviews: "...a book that will help those studying social sciences to realize the mechanical roots of the ongoing debate about cognition, but at the same time will help scholars of AI to put their discourse on intelligence in a historical and social perspective."
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Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: 1. Chemical machines and action systems; title: 2. Nervous conduction: early connectionism, physical analogies and machines; title: 3. The Robot Approach; title: 4. Behavior, purpose and teleology; title: 5. Cybernetics and the origins of Artificial Intelligence; title: 6. New steps towards the artificial; title: 7. The many forms of the artificial; title: References. List of machines; title: Name Index; title: Subject Index.