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On the origin of objects / Brian Cantwell Smith.

Van Pelt Library BD111 .S573 1996
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Smith, Brian Cantwell.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Metaphysics.
Object (Philosophy).
Physical Description:
xii, 420 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1996]
Summary:
On the Origin of Objects represents the final stage in Brian Cantwell Smith's decades-long investigation into the philosophical and metaphysical foundations of computation, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science. Based on a sustained critique of the formal tradition underlying reigning views, he argues for an embedded, participatory, "irreductionist", metaphysical alternative. Smith seeks nothing less than to revise our understanding not only of the machines we build but also of our world with which they interact.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-420) and indexes.
"A Bradford Book."
ISBN:
0262193639
OCLC:
33008948

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