Authors: James H. Fetzer
ISBN-13: 9780812694598, ISBN-10: 0812694597
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company
Date Published: September 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Human beings have long nurtured conceits about their exalted place in the universe, but recent scientific advances challenge their claims to any unique gifts of rationality and expose weaknesses in outmoded, mechanistic models of consciousness. Through a fascinating exploration of the mental abilities of species ranging from bacteria to mountain gorillas, noted science philosopher James Fetzer updates and improves these obsolete conceptualizations and offers an important new theory of intelligence — one grounded in evolutionary theory and by which machines can be "intelligent" without possessing minds.
1 | Biology and behavior | 3 |
2 | Animal mentality | 25 |
3 | The minds of primates | 45 |
4 | Computers and cognition | 71 |
5 | Gene-culture co-evolution | 93 |
6 | What about intelligence? | 117 |
7 | Evolution and rationality | 143 |
8 | Ethics and evolution | 165 |
9 | Biology and society | 185 |
App | Logical reasoning and domain specificity : a critique of the social exchange theory of reasoning | 209 |