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On the origin of objects / Brian Cantwell Smith.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Brian Cantwell, author.
- Series:
- Bradford book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Metaphysics.
- Object (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 420 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- MIT Press CogNet.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1996]
- System Details:
- text file
- 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:
- "A Bradford book."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-420) and indexes.
- Print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Smith, Brian Cantwell. On the origin of objects.
- ISBN:
- 0262283948
- 9780262283946
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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