Views Into the Chinese Room

The most famous challenge to the aims of computational cognitive science and artificial intelligence is the philosopher John Searle's 1980 'Chinese Room' argument. In this title, 19 essays by leading scientists and philosophers assess, renew, and respond to this crucial challenge.

Produced to mark the 21st birthday of the Chinese Room and bears witness to the argument's continuing fascination ... kicks off with an excellent introduction ... This is an excellent gathering of scholars.

Autorentext
John Preston is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Reading.

Mark Bishop is Lecturer in Cybernetics at the University of Reading.



Klappentext
The most famous challenge to computational cognitive science and artificial intelligence is the philosopher John Searle's "Chinese Room" argument. Searle argued that, although machines can be devised to respond to input with the same output as would a mind, machines--unlike minds--lack understanding of the symbols they process. 19 essays by leading scientists and philosophers assess, renew, and respond to this crucial challenge.


Zusammenfassung
The most famous challenge to the aims of cognitive science and artificial intelligence is the philosopher John Searle's 1980 'Chinese Room' argument. Searle argued that the fact that machines can be devised to respond to input with the same output that a mind would give does not mean that mind and machine are doing the same thing: for the latter lacks understanding. Nineteen specially written essays by leading scientists and philosophers assess, renew, and respond to this crucial challenge--fascinating reading for anyone interested in minds and computers.

Inhalt
Introduction
1: John R. Searle: Twenty-One Years in the Chinese Room
2: Ned Block: Searle's Arguments Against Cognitive Science
3: Terry Winograd: Understanding, Orientations, and Objectivity
4: Herbert A. Simon, Stuart A. Eisenstadt: A Chinese Room that Understands
5: B. Jack Copeland: The Chinese Room from a Logical Point of View
6: Larry Hauser: Nixin' Goes to China
7: Selmer Bringsjord, Ron Noel: Real Robots and the Missing Thought-Experiment in the Chinese Room Dialectic
8: Diane Proudfoot: Wittgenstein's Anticipation of the Chinese Room
9: Jeff Coulter, Wes Sharrock: The Hinterlandof the Chinese Room
10: Georges Rey: Searle's Misunderstandings of Functionalism and Strong AI
11: Roger Penrose: Consciousness, Computation, and the Chinese Room
12: Igor Aleksander: Neural Depictions of 'World' and 'Self': Bringing Computational Understanding to the Chinese Room
13: John G. Taylor: Do Virtual Actions Avoid the Chinese Room?
14: Stevan Harnad: Minds, Machines, and Searle 2: What's Right and Wrong about the Chinese Room Argument
15: Kevin Warwick: Alien Encounters
16: Alison Adam: Cyborgs in the Chinese Room: Boundaries Transgressed and Boundaries Blurred
17: Michael Wheeler: Changes in the Rules: Computers, Dynamical Systems, and Searle
18: Mark Bishop: Dancing with Pixies: Strong Artificial Intelligence and Panpsychism
19: John Haugeland: Syntax, Semantics, Physics
A Short Bibliography on Searle's Arguments
Name index, Subject index

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