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Artificial intelligence:

the very idea
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MIT Press, Jan 6, 1989 - Psychology - 287 pages
"Machines who think—how utterly preposterous," huff beleaguered humanists, defending their dwindling turf. "Artificial Intelligence—it's here and about to surpass our own," crow techno-visionaries, proclaiming dominion. It's so simple and obvious, each side maintains, only a fanatic could disagree.

Deciding where the truth lies between these two extremes is the main purpose of John Haugeland's marvelously lucid and witty book on what artificial intelligence is all about. Although presented entirely in non-technical terms, it neither oversimplifies the science nor evades the fundamental philosophical issues. Far from ducking the really hard questions, it takes them on, one by one.

Artificial intelligence, Haugeland notes, is based on a very good idea, which might well be right, and just as well might not. That idea, the idea that human thinking and machine computing are "radically the same," provides the central theme for his illuminating and provocative book about this exciting new field. After a brief but revealing digression in intellectual history, Haugeland systematically tackles such basic questions as: What is a computer really? How can a physical object "mean" anything? What are the options for computational organization? and What structures have been proposed and tried as actual scientific models for intelligence?

In a concluding chapter he takes up several outstanding problems and puzzles—including intelligence in action, imagery, feelings and personality—and their enigmatic prospects for solution.

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Contents

The Saga of the Modern
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Semantics
87
Computer Architecture
125
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181
Real People
213
Notes
255
Index
277
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JSTOR: Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea
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Artificial intelligence : the very idea [worldcat.org]
Artificial intelligence : the very idea. By: John Haugeland. Type: English : Book : Non-fiction. Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1985. ...
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John Haugeland | The Department of Philosophy | The University of ...
He is the author of Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea (MIT 1986) and Having Thought (Harvard 1998); the editor of Mind Design (MIT 1981; second edition ...
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Book review: Mind Design II Philosophy, Psychology, and Artificial ...
Other Haugeland books include Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea [Haugeland 1985] and Having Thought [Haugeland 1997]. REFERENCES ...
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John Haugeland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea, Haugeland coined the term GOFAI. Haugeland's work has focused on the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, ...
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[1] John Haugeland, Artificial Intelligence, the Very Idea. MIT Press 1985; [2] John Searle, "Minds, Brains, and Programs", Behavioural and Brain Sciences, ...
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Aditional Resources and Readings. A critical review of Haugeland's Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea by Stanford professor John mccarthy ...
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Book reviews
Book Reviews. John Haugeland. Artificial Intelligence: The Very. Idea. Cambridge, MA.: The MIT Press, 1985. 287 pages, illustrations. by Sheldon Richmond ...
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About the author (1989)

John Haugeland is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh and the editor of Mind Design: Essays in Philosophy, Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence.

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TitleArtificial intelligence: the very idea
A Bradford book
AuthorJohn Haugeland
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherMIT Press, 1989
ISBN0262580950, 9780262580953
Length287 pages
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Computers / Intelligence (AI) & Semantics
Psychology / Cognitive Psychology
  
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