The search for a theory of cognition : early mechanisms and new ideas /
The search for a theory of cognition : early mechanisms and new ideas /
edited by Stefano Franchi and Francesco Bianchini.
- 1 online resource (xxvii, 375 pages) : illustrations.
- Cognitive science Value inquiry book series ; v. 238 .
- Value Inquiry Book Series 238. Rodopi Religion, Theology and Philosophy Special E-Book Collection, 2007-2014, ISBN: 9789004357938. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-351) and index.
Preliminary Material -- LIFE, DEATH, AND RESURRECTION OF THE HOMEOSTAT / THE ONTOLOGY OF THE ENEMY: NORBERT WIENER AND THE CYBERNETIC VISION / COMPUTERS AS MODELS OF THE MIND: ON SIMULATIONS, BRAINS, AND THE DESIGN OF COMPUTERS / AT THE PERIPHERY OF THE RISING EMPIRE: THE CASE OF ITALY (1945–1968) / PROCESSING CULTURES: “STRUCTURALISM” IN THE HISTORY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE / ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WITH A NATIONAL FACE: AMERICAN AND SOVIET CULTURAL METAPHORS FOR THOUGHT / THE CARTESIAN-LEIBNIZIAN TURING TEST / TURING COMPUTABILITY AND LEIBNIZ COMPUTABILITY / LOGICAL INSTRUMENTS: REGULAR EXPRESSIONS, AI, AND THINKING ABOUT THINKING / GÖDEL, NAGEL, MINDS, AND MACHINES / ENTANGLING EFFECTIVE PROCEDURES: FROM LOGIC MACHINES TO QUANTUM AUTOMATA / TURING 1948 VS. GÖDEL 1972 / WORKS CITED -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS -- VIBS. Stefano Franchi -- Peter Galison -- Peter Asaro -- Claudio Pogliano -- Patrice Maniglier -- Slava Gerovitch -- Francesco Bianchini -- Maurizio Matteuzzi -- Christopher M. Kelty -- Solomon Feferman -- Rossella Lupacchini -- Giorgio Sandri --
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The book brings into relief the variety of approaches and disciplines that have informed the quest for a theory of cognition. The center of interest are the historical, geographical, and theoretical peripheries of classic AI's mainstream research program. The twelve chapters bring back into focus the variety of strategies and theoretical questions that researchers explored while working toward a scientific theory of cognition and pre-cognition. The volume is organized in four parts, each one including three essays. The first one deals with cybernetics, the approach that may be considered as the most important periphery of classic AI research. The second part focuses on the geographical periphery of AI research. It examines how the theories and techniques developed on AI's home ground were translated into countries with different cultures and traditions: Italy, France, and the Soviet Union. The third part focuses on AI's periphery understood in the cultural and historical meaning of the term. It contains essays that locate some of the central concepts of AI, like representation and computability, within a broader philosophical (Descartes, Aristotle, Leibniz) and technical background (programming theory and practice). The fourth and final part of the volume is focused directly on the limitation of Turing's classic computability theory and its possible alternatives, some of which were studied in the early years of AI's research (e.g. Ashby's re-entrant information model), while others have been intensely studied in recent times (quantum automata).
9789401207157
10.1163/9789401207157 DOI
Artificial intelligence--Research--History.
Cognitive science.
Artificial intelligence--Research.
Cognitive science.
History.
Q335.7 / .S43 2011eb
006.3
Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-351) and index.
Preliminary Material -- LIFE, DEATH, AND RESURRECTION OF THE HOMEOSTAT / THE ONTOLOGY OF THE ENEMY: NORBERT WIENER AND THE CYBERNETIC VISION / COMPUTERS AS MODELS OF THE MIND: ON SIMULATIONS, BRAINS, AND THE DESIGN OF COMPUTERS / AT THE PERIPHERY OF THE RISING EMPIRE: THE CASE OF ITALY (1945–1968) / PROCESSING CULTURES: “STRUCTURALISM” IN THE HISTORY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE / ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WITH A NATIONAL FACE: AMERICAN AND SOVIET CULTURAL METAPHORS FOR THOUGHT / THE CARTESIAN-LEIBNIZIAN TURING TEST / TURING COMPUTABILITY AND LEIBNIZ COMPUTABILITY / LOGICAL INSTRUMENTS: REGULAR EXPRESSIONS, AI, AND THINKING ABOUT THINKING / GÖDEL, NAGEL, MINDS, AND MACHINES / ENTANGLING EFFECTIVE PROCEDURES: FROM LOGIC MACHINES TO QUANTUM AUTOMATA / TURING 1948 VS. GÖDEL 1972 / WORKS CITED -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS -- VIBS. Stefano Franchi -- Peter Galison -- Peter Asaro -- Claudio Pogliano -- Patrice Maniglier -- Slava Gerovitch -- Francesco Bianchini -- Maurizio Matteuzzi -- Christopher M. Kelty -- Solomon Feferman -- Rossella Lupacchini -- Giorgio Sandri --
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
The book brings into relief the variety of approaches and disciplines that have informed the quest for a theory of cognition. The center of interest are the historical, geographical, and theoretical peripheries of classic AI's mainstream research program. The twelve chapters bring back into focus the variety of strategies and theoretical questions that researchers explored while working toward a scientific theory of cognition and pre-cognition. The volume is organized in four parts, each one including three essays. The first one deals with cybernetics, the approach that may be considered as the most important periphery of classic AI research. The second part focuses on the geographical periphery of AI research. It examines how the theories and techniques developed on AI's home ground were translated into countries with different cultures and traditions: Italy, France, and the Soviet Union. The third part focuses on AI's periphery understood in the cultural and historical meaning of the term. It contains essays that locate some of the central concepts of AI, like representation and computability, within a broader philosophical (Descartes, Aristotle, Leibniz) and technical background (programming theory and practice). The fourth and final part of the volume is focused directly on the limitation of Turing's classic computability theory and its possible alternatives, some of which were studied in the early years of AI's research (e.g. Ashby's re-entrant information model), while others have been intensely studied in recent times (quantum automata).
9789401207157
10.1163/9789401207157 DOI
Artificial intelligence--Research--History.
Cognitive science.
Artificial intelligence--Research.
Cognitive science.
History.
Q335.7 / .S43 2011eb
006.3