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Overview"What can humans do? What can machines do? How do humans delegate actions to machines? In this text, Harry Collins and Martin Kush combine insights from sociology and philosophy to provide an answer to these questions. The authors begin by distinguishing between two basic types of intentional behaviour, which they call polimorphic actions and mimeomorphic actions. Although machines cannot ""act"", they can mimic mimeomorphic actions, and thus mimeomorhpic actions are the crucial link between what humans can do and what machines can do. Following a presentation of their detailed categorization of actions, the authors apply their approach to a broad range of human-machine interactions and to learning. They also seek to show how their theory can be used to explain the operation of organizations such as restaurants and armies. Finally the text looks at a historical case - the technological development of the air pump - appying their categorization of actions to the processes of mechanization and automation. Automation, argue the authors, can occur only where what we want to bring about can be brought about through mimeomorphic action." Full Product DetailsAuthor: H. M Collins , Martin KuschPublisher: MIT Press Ltd Imprint: MIT Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.544kg ISBN: 9780262032575ISBN 10: 0262032570 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 05 January 1999 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active 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 ContentsReviewsIn this unusual, challenging, interdisciplinary book, Collins and Kusch have provided us with the best analysis we currently have of the determinants of the possibilities of automation. --Donald MacKenzie, Department of Sociology, University of Edinburgh Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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