If today one asks, What is the brain?, one receives volumes of material from the
neuroscientists. This material may not be very complete, nor terribly revealing about the …

When the field of Artificial Intelligence was founded, John McCarthy (Minsky et al., August 31
1955) described it as “to find how to make machines use language, form abstractions and …

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a young scientific field, which like other domains of information
processing sciences, was born in the middle of the XXth century, with the arrival of the first …

Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the cognitivist view of mind on which it is based, represent the
last stage of the rationalist tradition in philosophy. This tradition begins when Socrates …

First published in 1987, this book provides a stimulating introduction to artificial intelligence
(AI)-the science of thinking machines. After a general introduction to AI, including its history …

HR PAGELS [The New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY]: A few years ago, I asked
a colleague of mine at Harvard what was the future of artificial intelligence. He simply said:" …

When I was a graduate student in artificial intelligence, the humanities were not held in high
regard. They were vague and woolly, they employed impenetrable jargons, and they …

Two decades ago Hubert Dreyfus launched a critique of AI which was largely inspired by the
work of Martin Heidegger. He has continued to press this cri-tique, but it has not served to …

" Machines who think—how utterly preposterous," huff beleaguered humanists, defending
their dwindling turf." Artificial Intelligence—it's here and about to surpass our own," crow …

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is, or at least has been, a hot topic at colleges, universities, and
industrial laboratories. Students are eager to enroll in courses with AI in the title, and even …