Passionate engines : what emotions reveal about mind and artificial intelligence / Craig DeLancey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DeLancey, Craig, 1965- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy of mind.

Emotions (Philosophy).

Artificial intelligence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 254 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

What emotions reveal about mind and artificial intelligence

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

DeLancey shows that our best philosophical and scientific understanding of the emotions provides essential insights on key questions on the philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence.

Contents:

1. Introduction: The Affect Program Theory of Emotions

2. The Case Against Cognitivism

3. Interpretationism

4. Social Constructionism and the Contribution of Culture to Emotion

5. The Intentionality of the Basic Emotions

6. Emoting for Fictions

7. The Rationality of the Basic Emotions

8. Internalism and the Basic Emotions

9. Four Puzzles for Consciousness

10. A Systems-Based Teleofunctional Theory of Consciousness

11. The Computational Theory of Mind

12. Affective Engineering

13. Conclusion: Passionate Engines.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-247) and index.

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-983315-X

0-19-803257-9

9786611197261

1-281-19726-2

1-4237-2088-1

OCLC:

922952541