Author | Bringsjord, Selmer. author |
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Title | What Robots Can and Can't Be [electronic resource] / by Selmer Bringsjord |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1992 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2464-5 |
Descript | XIV, 381 p. online resource |
I: Introduction -- What This Book Is -- Key Theses -- A Note on Ad Hominem Attacks -- Who's My Audience -- On Doing Philosophy -- Other Arguments Against Theses Like (PERAUT) -- The General Plan -- The Cluster Approach -- Connectionism and the Arguments Herein -- What Isn't In This Book -- Appendix 1I: Argument from Alvin Formalized -- Appendix 2I: Key Theses Mentioned Thus Far -- II: Our Machinery -- Relevant Automata and Their Relevant Properties -- Theses To Which These Considerations Give Rise -- Brief Remarks on Uncomputability -- Pre-Philosophical Data; Ontology -- The Deductive Machinery -- III: Arguments Pro, Destroyed -- The Argument From Analogy -- The Argument From What Should Remain Unexplained -- The Argument From Natural Functions -- Pollock's Person-Building Arguments -- Cole's Case for Person Building -- IV: What Robots Can Be -- Sherlock Holmes and Expert Systems -- Computer-Generated Fiction -- V: Searle -- The Argument From Jonah -- Three Objections to the Jonah Argument -- VI: Arbitrary Realization -- First Version of ARA -- Second Version of ARA -- Maudlin's Olympia Attack -- VII: Gรถdel -- The Gรถdelian Argument (Informal) -- Weak Objections That Nonetheless Refine the Gรถdelian Argument -- New Version of Gรถdelian Argument (Informal) -- The Real Problem with the Gรถdelian Argument -- Is the Gรถdelian Argument Dead, Then? -- VIII: Free Will -- Determinism and Indeterminism -- Other Concepts; the โDilemmaโ -- The Main Argument, for Real -- Iterative Agent Causation -- Main Argument's Premises Defended -- Objections -- Conclusion -- IX: Introspection -- The Argument from Incorrigibilism -- X: Conclusion -- Index of Illustrations -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects