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
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).
"An excellent job ... the most balanced treatment of the hopes and claims of AI I have yet seen." Hubert Dreyfus, University of California "The best philosophical introduction to artificial intelligence available." Justin Leiber, University of Houston
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