《On the Origin of Objects》是The MIT Press出版的圖書，作者是Brian Cantwell Smith
基本介紹
- 作者：Brian Cantwell Smith
- 出版社：The MIT Press
- 頁數：432 頁
- ISBN：9780262692090
- 定價：35.00 美元
- 裝幀：Paperback
內容簡介
Book Description
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.
Smith's ambitious project begins as a search for a comprehensive theory of computation, able to do empirical justice to practice and conceptual justice to the computational theory of mind. A rigorous commitment to these two criteria ultimately leads him to recommend a radical overhaul of our traditional conception of metaphysics.
