The boundaries of humanity : humans, animals, machines / / edited by James J. Sheehan and Morton Sosna

• Pubblicazione: Berkeley : , : University of California Press, [1991]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 274 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 304.5
• Soggetto topico: Sociobiology; Artificial intelligence; Culture; Human-animal relationships; Human-computer interaction; Anthropology; Social Sciences; Social & Cultural Anthropology
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): SheehanJames J.; SosnaMorton
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Dupré -- 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The boundaries of humanity
• ISBN: 0-585-31422-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910495964203321
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