What Computers Still Can'T Do: A Critique Of Artificial Reason
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At the height of artificial intelligence's most ambitious promises, philosopher Hubert L. Dreyfus mounted a bold and rigorous challenge to the foundational assumptions of the field — and the argument has only grown more urgent with time. What Computers Still Can't Do presents a devastating critique of the belief that human cognition can be reduced to the manipulation of formal symbols, arguing that the irreducibly embodied, contextual, and intuitive nature of human understanding places it forever beyond the reach of classical AI systems. Dreyfus dismantles the optimistic claims of AI researchers with surgical precision, drawing on phenomenological philosophy — particularly the work of Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty — to illustrate why machines, no matter how sophisticated, cannot replicate the tacit, situation-dependent knowledge that defines human expertise. This revised and expanded edition stands as one of the most intellectually courageous works in the philosophy of mind, a text that was ridiculed upon its first publication and has since been vindicated by the very limits it predicted. Dreyfus writes with a rare combination of philosophical depth and polemical clarity, making complex phenomenological concepts accessible without sacrificing rigor. For anyone grappling with the nature of intelligence, consciousness, and the boundaries of technology, this work raises questions that remain stubbornly, fascinatingly unanswered.
Author: Hubert L. Dreyfus
Format: Paperback
Published: 1993, The MIT Press
Genre: Philosophy
Edition: Third printing
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the height of artificial intelligence's most ambitious promises, philosopher Hubert L. Dreyfus mounted a bold and rigorous challenge to the foundational assumptions of the field — and the argument has only grown more urgent with time. What Computers Still Can't Do presents a devastating critique of the belief that human cognition can be reduced to the manipulation of formal symbols, arguing that the irreducibly embodied, contextual, and intuitive nature of human understanding places it forever beyond the reach of classical AI systems. Dreyfus dismantles the optimistic claims of AI researchers with surgical precision, drawing on phenomenological philosophy — particularly the work of Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty — to illustrate why machines, no matter how sophisticated, cannot replicate the tacit, situation-dependent knowledge that defines human expertise. This revised and expanded edition stands as one of the most intellectually courageous works in the philosophy of mind, a text that was ridiculed upon its first publication and has since been vindicated by the very limits it predicted. Dreyfus writes with a rare combination of philosophical depth and polemical clarity, making complex phenomenological concepts accessible without sacrificing rigor. For anyone grappling with the nature of intelligence, consciousness, and the boundaries of technology, this work raises questions that remain stubbornly, fascinatingly unanswered.