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The boundaries of humanity : humans, animals, machines / / edited by James J. Sheehan and Morton Sosna |
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Berkeley : , : University of California Press, [1991] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 274 pages) : illustrations |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Sociobiology |
Artificial intelligence |
Culture |
Human-animal relationships |
Human-computer interaction |
Anthropology |
Social Sciences |
Social & Cultural Anthropology |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Prologue : making sense of humanity / Bernard Williams -- Humans and animals. Introduction / James J. Sheehan -- The horror of monsters / Arnold I. Davidson -- The animal connection / Harriet Ritvo -- Language and ideology in evolutionary theory : reading cultural norms into natural law / Evelyn Fox Keller -- Human nature and culture : biology and the residue of uniqueness / Melvin Konner -- Reflections on biology and culture / John DupreĢ -- Humans and machines. Introduction / James J. Sheehan -- The meaning of the mechanistic age / Roger Hahn -- Metaphors for mind, theories of mind : should the humanities mind? / Allen Newell -- Thinking machines : Can there be? Are we? / Terry Winograd -- Romantic reactions : paradoxical responses to the computer presence / Sherry Turkle -- Biology, machines, and humanity / Stuart Hampshire -- Coda / James J. Sheehan. |
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