Men And Machines
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
At the crossroads of philosophy and emerging technology, Men and Machines presents a landmark collection of papers delivered at the Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, held in Birmingham in July 1952. This supplementary volume assembles some of the most rigorous philosophical minds of the mid-twentieth century to confront a question that was rapidly transforming from speculative curiosity into urgent intellectual necessity: what is the relationship between human thought and the mechanical processes that increasingly sought to replicate it? Published at a moment when Alan Turing's seminal work on machine intelligence was reshaping the boundaries of philosophy, psychology, and logic, this volume captures a discipline grappling in real time with the implications of computation, cognition, and consciousness. The contributors argue, interrogate, and challenge prevailing assumptions about mind, agency, and what it means to be human in an age of machines — themes that have only grown more pressing in the decades since. For collectors of analytic philosophy and historians of ideas, this rare 1952 edition is a primary source document of extraordinary intellectual heritage, offering a window into the very debates that laid the groundwork for modern philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence.
Author: Aristotelian Society
Format: Hardback
Published: 1952, Harrison and Sons, Ltd.
Genre: Philosophy
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
At the crossroads of philosophy and emerging technology, Men and Machines presents a landmark collection of papers delivered at the Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, held in Birmingham in July 1952. This supplementary volume assembles some of the most rigorous philosophical minds of the mid-twentieth century to confront a question that was rapidly transforming from speculative curiosity into urgent intellectual necessity: what is the relationship between human thought and the mechanical processes that increasingly sought to replicate it? Published at a moment when Alan Turing's seminal work on machine intelligence was reshaping the boundaries of philosophy, psychology, and logic, this volume captures a discipline grappling in real time with the implications of computation, cognition, and consciousness. The contributors argue, interrogate, and challenge prevailing assumptions about mind, agency, and what it means to be human in an age of machines — themes that have only grown more pressing in the decades since. For collectors of analytic philosophy and historians of ideas, this rare 1952 edition is a primary source document of extraordinary intellectual heritage, offering a window into the very debates that laid the groundwork for modern philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence.