Views into the Chinese Room: New Essays on Searle and Artificial Intelligence / Edition 1

by John Preston, Mark Bishop

Overview

The most famous challenge to computational cognitive science and artificial intelligence is the philosopher John Searle's "Chinese Room" argument. Searle argued that, although machines can be devised to respond to input with the same output as would a mind, machines—unlike minds—lack understanding of the symbols they process. 19 essays by leading scientists and philosophers assess, renew, and respond to this crucial challenge.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199252770
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/26/2002
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	428
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

John Preston is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Reading. Mark Bishop is Lecturer in Cybernetics at the University of Reading.

Table of Contents

Introduction, John Preston1. Twenty-One Years in the Chinese Room, John R. Searle2. Searle's Arguments Against Cognitive Science, Ned Block3. Understanding, Orientations, and Objectivity, Terry Winograd4. A Chinese Room that Understands, Herbert A. Simon, Stuart A. Eisenstadt5. The Chinese Room from a Logical Point of View, B. Jack Copeland6. Nixin' Goes to China, Larry Hauser7. Real Robots and the Missing Thought-Experiment in the Chinese Room Dialectic, Selmer Bringsjord, Ron Noel8. Wittgenstein's Anticipation of the Chinese Room, Diane Proudfoot9. The Hinterlandof the Chinese Room, Jeff Coulter, Wes Sharrock10. Searle's Misunderstandings of Functionalism and Strong AI, Georges Rey11. Consciousness, Computation, and the Chinese Room, Roger Penrose12. Neural Depictions of 'World' and 'Self': Bringing Computational Understanding to the Chinese Room, Igor Aleksander13. Do Virtual Actions Avoid the Chinese Room?, John G. Taylor14. Minds, Machines, and Searle 2: What's Right and Wrong about the Chinese Room Argument, Stevan Harnad15. Alien Encounters, Kevin Warwick16. Cyborgs in the Chinese Room: Boundaries Transgressed and Boundaries Blurred, Alison Adam17. Changes in the Rules: Computers, Dynamical Systems, and Searle, Michael Wheeler18. Dancing with Pixies: Strong Artificial Intelligence and Panpsychism, Mark Bishop19. Syntax, Semantics, Physics, John HaugelandA Short Bibliography on Searle's ArgumentsName index, Subject index