The Great Philosophers Turing

Author : Andrew Hodges
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781780221700

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The Great Philosophers: Turing by Andrew Hodges Pdf

Alan Turing's 1936 paper On Computable Numbers, introducing the Turing machine, was a landmark of twentieth-century thought. It settled a deep problem in the foundations of mathematics, and provided the principle of the post-war electronic computer. It also supplied a new approach to the philosophy of the mind. Influenced by his crucial codebreaking work in the Second World War, and by practical pioneering of the first electronic computers, Turing argued that all the operations of the mind could be performed by computers. His thesis, made famous by the wit and drama of the Turing Test, is the cornerstone of modern Artificial Intelligence. Here Andrew Hodges gives a fresh and critical analysis of Turing's developing thought, relating it to his extraordinary life, and also to the more recent ideas of Roger Penrose.

Author : Andrew Hodges
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Artificial intelligence
ISBN : 0753801922

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Turing by Andrew Hodges Pdf

Alan Turing's 1936 paper ON COMPUTABLE NUMBERS, introducing the Turing machine, was a landmark of twentieth century thought. It provided the principle of the post-war electronic computer. Influenced by his crucial codebreaking work in thesecond world war, Turing argued that all the operations of the mind could be performed by computers. His thesis, made famous by the wit and drama of the Turing Test, is the cornerstone of modern Artificial Intelligence. Andrew Hodgesgives a fresh and interesting analysis of Turing's developing thought, relating it to his extraordinary life.

Author : Ray Monk
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1399612352

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The Great Philosophers: Russell by Ray Monk Pdf

'The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts' Bertrand Russell 'Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know' Bertrand Russell discovered mathematics at the age of eleven. It was, he recalled, a transporting experience: 'as dazzling as first love'. From that moment on, he would pursue his passion with undying devotion and fervour. Mathematics might succeed, he felt, where philosophy had failed, reducing thought to its purest form, and freeing knowledge from doubt and contradiction. And for a time, so it seemed. Russell's mathematical investigations effortlessly resolved at a stroke some of philosophy's most intractable problems. Yet if mathematics could be a liberating mistress, she was also an unreliable one... Opening up the work of one of our age's undisputed giants, Ray Monk's exhilaratingly clear, readable guide tells a compelling human tale too: a moving story of love and loss, of ecstatic triumph and deep disillusion.

Author : Juliet Floyd,Alisa Bokulich
Publisher : Springer
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319532806

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Philosophical Explorations of the Legacy of Alan Turing by Juliet Floyd,Alisa Bokulich Pdf

Chapters “Turing and Free Will: A New Take on an Old Debate” and “Turing and the History of Computer Music” are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Andrew Hodges
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Artificial intelligence
ISBN : UCSD:31822027783315

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Turing by Andrew Hodges Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophers
ISBN : 0753811367

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The Great Philosophers by Anonim Pdf

The Great Philosophers brings together in one volume and in chronological order the best from our hugely successful series: Anthony Gottlieb on Socrates; Bernard Williams on Plato; John Cottingham on Descartes; Roger Scruton on Spinoza; David Berman on Berkeley; Anthony Quinton on Hume; Terry Eagleton on Marx; Ray Monk on Russell; Jonathan Ree on Heidegger; Peter Hacker on Wittgenstein; Frederic Raphael on Popper Andrew Hodges on Turing.

Author : Andrew Hodges
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Artificial intelligence
ISBN : OCLC:1237502709

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Turing by Andrew Hodges Pdf

From WW2 code-breaker to Artificial Intelligence - a fascinating account of the remarkable Alan Turing. Alan Turing's 1936 paper On Computable Numbers was a landmark of twentieth-century thought. It not only provided the principle of the post-war computer, but also gave an entirely new approach to the philosophy of the mind. Influenced by his crucial codebreaking work during the war, and by practical pioneering of the first electronic computers, Turing argued that all the operations of the mind could be performed by computers. His thesis is the cornerstone of modern Artificial Intelligence. Andrew Hodges gives a fresh analysis of Turing's work, relating it to his extraordinary life.

Author : Robert Epstein,Gary Roberts,Grace Beber
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781402096242

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Parsing the Turing Test by Robert Epstein,Gary Roberts,Grace Beber Pdf

An exhaustive work that represents a landmark exploration of both the philosophical and methodological issues surrounding the search for true artificial intelligence. Distinguished psychologists, computer scientists, philosophers, and programmers from around the world debate weighty issues such as whether a self-conscious computer would create an internet ‘world mind’. This hugely important volume explores nothing less than the future of the human race itself.

Author : Peter Hacker
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781780221724

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The Great Philosophers: Wittgenstein by Peter Hacker Pdf

This highly accessible account offers an illuminating introduction to Wittgenstein's philosophy of mind and to his conception of philosophy. Combining passages from Wittgenstein's writings with detailed interpretation and commentary, Hacker leads us into a world of philosophical investigation in which 'to smell a rat is ever so much easier than to trap it.' Wittgenstein claimed that the role of philosophy is to dissolve conceptual confusions, to untie the knots in our understanding that result from entanglement in the web of language. He overturned centuries of philosophical reflection on the nature of 'the inner', of our subjective experience and of our knowledge of self and others. Traditional conceptions of 'the outer', of human behaviour, were equally distorted and so too was the relation between the inner and the outer. Hacker shows how Wittgenstein's examination of our use of words clarifies our notions of mind, body and behaviour.

Author : RALPH. WALKER
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1474616798

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The Great Philosophers:Kant by RALPH. WALKER Pdf

Never has the need for moral absolutes been more pressing than in this age of genocide and oppression, and yet as old certainties crumble into doubt and disillusion, cynicism often takes over from both religious faith and humanist confidence. If the appeal to a judging deity appears an evasion, even to believers, utilitarian head-counting seems no more than an exercise in ethical accountancy. This is where Kant comes in, as his moral philosophy continues to compel the attention of every serious thinker in the field. Clear, concise - and overwhelmingly convincing - Ralph Walker's lucid guide spells out the power and renewed relevance of his thinking: a genuinely objective, absolute basis for a modern moral law.

Author : Christof Teuscher
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783662056424

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Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker by Christof Teuscher Pdf

Written by a distinguished cast of contributors, Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker is the definitive collection of essays in commemoration of the 90th birthday of Alan Turing. This fascinating text covers the rich facets of his life, thoughts, and legacy, but also sheds some light on the future of computing science with a chapter contributed by visionary Ray Kurzweil, winner of the 1999 National Medal of Technology. Further, important contributions come from the philosopher Daniel Dennett, the Turing biographer Andrew Hodges, and from the distinguished logician Martin Davis, who provides a first critical essay on an emerging and controversial field termed "hypercomputation".

Author : Bernard Arthur Owen Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophers
ISBN : UOM:49015002525609

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Plato by Bernard Arthur Owen Williams Pdf

Takes the reader back to first principles, re-reading the key texts to reveal what the philosopher actually said.

Author : Herman Cappelen,Josh Dever
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192894724

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Making AI Intelligible by Herman Cappelen,Josh Dever Pdf

Can humans and artificial intelligences share concepts and communicate? One aim of Making AI Intelligible is to show that philosophical work on the metaphysics of meaning can help answer these questions. Cappelen and Dever use the externalist tradition in philosophy of to create models of how AIs and humans can understand each other. In doing so, they also show ways in which that philosophical tradition can be improved: our linguistic encounters with AIs revel that our theories of meaning have been excessively anthropocentric. The questions addressed in the book are not only theoretically interesting, but the answers have pressing practical implications. Many important decisions about human life are now influenced by AI. In giving that power to AI, we presuppose that AIs can track features of the world that we care about (e.g. creditworthiness, recidivism, cancer, and combatants.) If AIs can share our concepts, that will go some way towards justifying this reliance on AI. The book can be read as a proposal for how to take some first steps towards achieving interpretable AI. Making AI Intelligible is of interest to both philosophers of language and anyone who follows current events or interacts with AI systems. It illustrates how philosophy can help us understand and improve our interactions with AI.

Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781780221694

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The Great Philosophers: Spinoza by Roger Scruton Pdf

Born to be misunderstood, Spinoza was a man whose theology was banned for Godlessness. The very virtuosity of his reasoning left logicians unsettled, while even to professional thinkers in our own time, Spinoza has seemed too clever by half. And yet, as Roger Scruton shows in this strikingly readable introduction to the man and his though, Spinoza's concerns were both simple and sublime. Few philosophers, indeed, have shown such a straightforward, sustained and honest interest in uncovering the most fundamental aspects of existence. Too important to be dismissed as a mere genius, Spinoza is rediscovered here in all his quiet and consoling simplicity.

Author : Stephen Law
Publisher : Quercus
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781623655563

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The Great Philosophers: The Lives and Ideas of History's Greatest Thinkers by Stephen Law Pdf

Since the beginning of time mankind has struggled with the big questions surrounding our existence. Whilst most people have heard of Socrates, Machiavelli and Nietzsche, many are less clear on their theories and key concepts. In The Great Philosophers, bestselling author Stephen Law condenses and deciphers their fundamental ideas. Avoiding the technical jargon and complex logic associated with most books on philosophy, Law brings the thoughts of these great thinkers, from Confucius and Buddha to Wittgenstein and Sartre, to life.