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On the origin of objects / Brian Cantwell Smith.

By: Material type: TextTextCopyright date: �1996Description: 1 online resource (xii, 420 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585038198
  • 9780585038193
  • 9780262283946
  • 0262283948
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: On the origin of objects.DDC classification:
  • 111 20
LOC classification:
  • BD111 .S573 1996eb
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Computation -- 2. Irreduction -- 3. Realism -- 4. Particularity -- 5. Physics -- 6. Flex & slop -- 7. Registration -- I 8. Registration -- II -- 9. Middle distance -- 10. Transition -- 11. Metaphysics -- 12. Conclusion.
Summary: On the Origin of Objects is the culmination of Brian Cantwell Smith's decade-long investigation into the philosophical and metaphysical foundations of computation, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science. Based on a sustained critique of the formal tradition that underlies the reigning views, he presents an argument 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 the world with which they interact.
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"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-420) and indexes.

Print version record.

1. Computation -- 2. Irreduction -- 3. Realism -- 4. Particularity -- 5. Physics -- 6. Flex & slop -- 7. Registration -- I 8. Registration -- II -- 9. Middle distance -- 10. Transition -- 11. Metaphysics -- 12. Conclusion.

On the Origin of Objects is the culmination of Brian Cantwell Smith's decade-long investigation into the philosophical and metaphysical foundations of computation, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science. Based on a sustained critique of the formal tradition that underlies the reigning views, he presents an argument 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 the world with which they interact.

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