 Minds and Computers: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Artificial IntelligenceThis is a book about minds. It is also about computers. Centrally, we will be interested in examining the relation between minds and computers.
The idea that we might one day be able to construct some artefact which has a mind in the same sense that we have minds is not a new one. It has featured in entertaining and frightening fictions... |  | Get Set for Computer Science (Get Set for University)This book is aimed at students who are thinking of studying Computer Science or a related topic at university. Part One is a brief introduction to the topics that make up Computer Science, some of which you would expect to find as course modules in a Computer Science programme. These descriptions should help you to tell the difference between... | | Spinoza's Ethics (Edinburgh Philosophical Guides)
This is a guidebook to the Ethics, the major work of the seventeenthcentury philosopher Baruch Spinoza. This book differs from other introductory books on Spinoza in a number of ways. First, it does not assume that you have any philosophical background. I do not presume that you know (or remember) Descartes’ theory of substance, that... |
