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Titolo: | 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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