Android Epistemology

Book Overview

Android epistemology is the exploration of the space of possible machines and their capacities for knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, desires, and for action in accord with their mental states.

Android epistemology is the exploration of the space of possible machines and their capacities for knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, desires, and for action in accord with their mental states.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262519046
• ISBN13: 9780262519045
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: AAAI Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Thought provoking but looking for a focus

This edited volume contains articles from the Workshop on Human & Machine Cognition in 1991. I got this book while preparing an upper-division interdisciplinary course on Models of Mind. I liked the overall slant of the collection better than many of the other volumes I considered (e.g., Mind Design II, Haugeland; Philosophy of AI, Boden (one of the contributors to this volume)). Although the workshop happened in 1991, the papers are ostensibly more closely dated to the book's publication (1995). My complaint about the book (which applies to all the other books I've evaluated) is that it lacks the focus of laying out the philosophical issues related to mind and then considering computational models with repsect to those issues. That is not to say the individual papers do not address issues of Philosophy of Mind and proceed appropriately from there -- simply as an edited collection, it lacked the focus that would make it a good text for the seminar course I'm designing. There's much here to stimulate thinking and discussion.