Thinking Computers and Virtual Persons Essays on the Intentionality of Machines

Name: Thinking Computers and Virtual Persons Essays on the Intentionality of Machines
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ISBN: 9780122154959

ISBN-10: 0122154959

ISBN-13: 9780122154959

Edition: 1994

Authors: Eric Dietrich

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This collection of essays includes provocative articles such as Could a Machine Think? and Am I a computer?.

Book details

List price: $63.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Books
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 363
Size: 7.75" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English

Contributors
Preface
Thinking Computers and the Problem of Intentionality	p. 3
Intentionality Is Phlogiston	p. 37
Real Machines and Virtual Intentionality	p. 71
The Myth of Original Intentionality	p. 91
Computationalism	p. 109
The Causal Powers of CPUs	p. 139
Could a Machine Think?	p. 157
Intentionality and Computationalism	p. 173
Putting One's Foot in One's Head - Part II: How?	p. 197
Syntactic Semantics	p. 225
Am I a Computer?	p. 277
Using Representation to Explain	p. 307
Human Reasoning about Artificial Intelligence	p. 331
Author Index	p. 355
Subject Index	p. 359
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