Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Introduction

List of Figures. Acknowledgements. Introduction. In outline. 1. The beginnings of Artificial Intelligence a historical sketch. 2. Some dazzling exhibits. 3. Can a machine think?. 4. The symbol system hypothesis. 5. A hard look at the facts. 6. The curious case of the Chinese Room. 7. Freedom. 8. Consciousness. 9. Are we computers?. 10. AIa s fresh start: parallel distributed processing. Epilogue. Notes. Bibliography. Index.