Table of Contents

List of figures x

Acknowledgements xi

Introduction 1

In outline 2

1 The beginnings of Artificial Intelligence: a historical sketch 4

2 Some dazzling exhibits 11

3 Can a machine think? 33

4 The symbol system hypothesis 58

5 A hard look at the facts 83

6 The curious case of the Chinese room 121

7 Freedom 140

8 Consciousness 163

9 Are we computers? 180

10 AI’s fresh start: parallel distributed processing 207

Epilogue 249

Notes 250

Blibliography 283

Index 299

About the Author

Jack Copeland is Senior Lecturer in philosophy and logic at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He has published widely on logic, philosophy of mind and philosophy of language, and is editor of Logic and Reality (1993).

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