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Author Smith, Brian Cantwell.

Title On the origin of objects / Brian Cantwell Smith
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1996
©1996

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 420 pages) : illustrations
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
Notes "A Bradford book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-420) and indexes
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Subject Metaphysics.
Object (Philosophy)
First philosophy.
Metaphysics
metaphysics.
PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics.
First philosophy
Metaphysics
Object (Philosophy)
Informatica.
Kunstmatige intelligentie.
Grondslagen.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585038198
9780585038193
9780262283946
0262283948