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UNISA996248051603316 |
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Autore |
Breisach Ernst |
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On the Future of History : The Postmodernist Challenge and Its Aftermath / / Ernst Breisach |
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Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2007] |
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1-281-12536-9 |
9786611125363 |
0-226-07281-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (253 p.) |
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Postmodernism - Social aspects |
Historiography |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- A Prefatory and Introductory Note -- Part 1. A Preliminary Exploration of the Postmodernist Challenge -- Part 2. Postmodernity as the Triumph of Continuity: Structural Postmodernism -- Part 3. Postmodernity as the Age of Dominant Change: Poststructuralist Postmodernism -- Part 4. Poststructuralist Postmodernism and the Reshaping of Society -- Part 5. Concluding Observations -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index |
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What does postmodernism mean for the future of history? Can one still write history in postmodernity? To answer questions such as these, Ernst Breisach provides the first comprehensive overview of postmodernism and its complex relationship to history and historiography. Placing postmodern theories in their intellectual and historical contexts, he shows how they are part of broad developments in Western culture. Breisach sees postmodernism as neither just a fad nor a universal remedy. In clear and concise language, he presents and critically evaluates the major views on history held by influential postmodernists, such as Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard, and the new narrativists. Along the way, he introduces to the reader major debates among historians over postmodern theories of evidence, objectivity, |
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meaning and order, truth, and the usefulness of history. He also discusses new types of history that have emerged as a consequence of postmodernism, including cultural history, microhistory, and new historicism. For anyone concerned with the postmodern challenge to history, both advocates and critics alike, On the Future of History will be a welcome guide. |
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UNINA9910956822003321 |
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Autore |
Wilson Elizabeth A |
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Affect and Artificial Intelligence |
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Seattle, WA, USA, : University of Washington Press, 2010 |
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University of Washington Press |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (197 p.) |
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In vivo : the cultural mediations of biomedical science Affect and artificial intelligence |
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COMPUTERS |
History |
Artificial intelligence - Psychological aspects |
Information technology |
Affect (Psychology) |
Emotions |
Engineering & Applied Sciences |
Computer Science |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Machine Has No Fear -- 1. The Positive Affects of Alan Turing -- 2. Shaming AI: Helplessness, Confusion, and Error -- 3. Artificial Psychotherapy -- 4. Walter Pitts and the Inhibition of Affect -- Notes -- Appendixes -- References -- Index. |
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In 1950, Alan Turing, the British mathematician, cryptographer, and computer pioneer, looked to the future: now that the conceptual and technical parameters for electronic brains had been established, what kind of intelligence could be built? Should machine intelligence mimic the abstract thinking of a chess player or should it be more like the developing mind of a child? Should an intelligent agent only think, or should it also learn, feel, and grow? Affect and Artificial Intelligence is the first in-depth analysis of affect and intersubjectivity in the computational sciences. Elizabeth Wilson makes use of archival and unpublished material from the early years of AI (1945-70) until the present to show that early researchers were more engaged with questions of emotion than many commentators have assumed. She documents how affectivity was managed in the canonical works of Walter Pitts in the 1940s and Turing in the 1950s, in projects from the 1960s that injected artificial agents into psychotherapeutic encounters, in chess-playing machines from the 1940s to the present, and in the Kismet (sociable robotics) project at MIT in the 1990s. |
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