Machines and Thought The Legacy of Alan Turing, Volume I [Paperback]

This is the first of two volumes of essays in commemoration of Alan Turing, whose pioneering work in the theory of artificial intelligence and computer science continues to provoke wide discussion. The essays focus on three questions: What, if any, are the limits on machine thinking ? Can a machine be genuinely intelligent? And, Might we ourselves be biological machines? Contributors include Chris Fields, Joseph Ford, Robert M. French, Anthony Galton, Robin Gandy, Clark Glymour, J. R. Lucas, Donald Michie, Peter Mott, Ajit Narayanan, Herbert A. Simon, Aaron Sloman, Ian Stewart, and Blay Whitby.

1. Subcognition and the Limits of the Turing Test,Robert M. French
2. Turing's Test and Conscious Thought,Donald Michie
3. The Turing Test: AI's Biggest Blind Alley?,Blay Whitby
4. The Intentional Stance and the Imitation Game,Ajit Narayanan
5. Machine as Mind,Herbert Simon
6. Minds, Machines, and G?del: A Retrospect,J. R. Lucas
7. Human versus Mechanical Intelligence,Robin Gandy
8. The Church-Turing Thesis: Its Nature and Status,Antony Galton
9. Measurement and Computational Description,Chris Fields
10. Beyond Turing Equivalence,Aaron Sloman
11. The Demise of the Turing Machine in Complexity Theory,Iain A. Stewart
12. A Grammar-Based Approach to Common-Sense Reasoning,Peter Mott
13. Chaos: Its Past, its Present, but Mostly its Future,Joseph Ford
14. The Hierarchies of Knowledge and the Mathematics of Discovery,Clark Glymour

A fascinating series of essays on computation by contributors in various fields. --Choice

Peter Millican is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Computer Studies at the University of Leeds. Andy Clark is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Philosophy/Neuroscience/Psychology program at Washington State University, St Louis, Missouri. He is the authorlã”