| Description |
viii, 405 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Series |
Oxford readings in philosophy |
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Oxford readings in philosophy.
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| Contents |
1. Artificial Life / Christopher G. Langton -- 2. Autonomy and Artificiality / Margaret A. Boden -- 3. An Approach to the Synthesis of Life / Thomas S. Ray -- 4. Form and Order in Evolutionary Biology / Richard M. Burian and Robert C. Richardson -- 5. Evolution - Natural and Artificial / John Maynard Smith -- 6. Animals as Cost-Based Robots / David J. McFarland -- 7. From Robots to Rothko: The Bringing Forth of Worlds / Michael Wheeler -- 8. Today the Earwig, Tomorrow Man? / David Kirsh -- 9. Happy Couplings: Emergence and Explanatory Interlock / Andy Clark -- 10. In Praise of Interactive Emergence, Or Why Explanations Don't Have to Wait for Implementations / Horst Hendriks-Jansen -- 11. Aristotle on Life / Gareth B. Matthews -- 12. Spencer and Dewey on Life and Mind / Peter Godfrey-Smith -- 13. The Nature of Life / Mark A. Bedau -- 14. Learning from Functionalism - Prospects for Strong Artificial Life / Elliott Sober |
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15. Simulations, Realizations, and Theories of Life / H. H. Pattee |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [397]-400) and index |
| Subject |
Artificial life.
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Life.
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| Author |
Boden, Margaret A.
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| LC no. |
95043389 |
| ISBN |
0198751540 (acid-free paper) |
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0198751559 (paperback: acid-free paper) |
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