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Overview"This text represents the culmination of a decade long investigation into the philosophical and metaphysical foundations of computation, artificial intelligence and cognitive science. Based on a sustained critique of the formal tradition that underlies the reigning views, the author presents an argument for an embedded, participatory, ""irreductionist"" metaphysical alternative. The author seeks to revise our understanding not only of the machines we build, but also of the world with which they interact. The project begins as a search for a comprehensive theory of computation, able to do empirical justice to practice and conceptual justice to the computational theory of mind. This leads ultimately to the recommendation of a radical overhaul of our traditional conception of metaphysics." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Brian Cantwell Smith (University of Toronto)Publisher: MIT Press Ltd Imprint: MIT Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.60cm Weight: 0.612kg ISBN: 9780262692090ISBN 10: 0262692090 Pages: 432 Publication Date: 23 January 1998 Recommended Age: From 18 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsLike the work of Simon, Chomsky, Kuhn, and Foucault, Brian Cantwell Smith's On the Origin of Objects comes into philosophy from the outside and stands to shake things up. This is an essay in fundamental metaphysics, but not like any we've ever seen before. Bringing to ontology the training of a computer scientist, and the sensibilities of an artist-engineer, Smith recreates our understanding of objects essentially from scratch--and changes, I think, everything. --John Haugeland, Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh Like the work of Simon, Chomsky, Kuhn, and Foucault, Brian CantwellSmith's On the Origin of Objects comes into philosophy from theoutside and stands to shake things up. This is an essay in fundamentalmetaphysics, but not like any we've ever seen before. Bringing toontology the training of a computer scientist, and the sensibilitiesof an artist-engineer, Smith recreates our understanding of objectsessentially from scratch--and changes, I think, everything. John Haugeland , Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh Author InformationBrian Cantwell Smith is Reid Hoffman Professor of Artificial Intelligence and the Human at the University of Toronto, where he is also Professor of Information, Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. He is the author of On the Origin of Objects (MIT Press). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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