Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 16, No. 486.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 07:22:18 +0000
From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: new books
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The Turing Test
The Elusive Standard of Artificial Intelligence
edited by
James H. Moor
Dept. of Philosophy, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
STUDIES IN COGNITIVE SYSTEMS -- 30
The Turing Test gives the most comprehensive, in depth and contemporary
assessment of this classic topic in artificial intelligence. This is the
first book to elaborate in such detail the numerous conflicting points of
view on many aspects of this multifaceted, controversial subject. It offers
new insights into Turing's own interpretation and traces the history of the
debate about the merits of the Turing test in more detail than anywhere
else. Turing's famous predictions (1950) are assessed fifty years after
they were made. The book also gives competing views about how the Turing
test should be interpreted, and novel contemporary criticisms of the test.
Justifications for the test and it's future applications are suggested and
alternatives to the Turing test are examined in detail. Recent results of
the Loebner competition are analyzed.
This highly readable volume is essential reading for research on the Turing
test and for teaching undergraduate and graduage students in philosophy,
computer science, and cognitive science.
Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1204-7 Date: March 2003 Pages: 288 pp.
EURO 103.00 / USD 99.00 / GBP 66.00
Paperback ISBN: 1-4020-1205-5 Date: March 2003 Pages: 288 pp.
EURO 39.00 / USD 37.00 / GBP 25.00
(2)
Foundations of the Formal Sciences II
Applications of Mathematical Logic in Philosophy and Linguistics, Papers of
a Conference held in Bonn, November 1013, 2000
edited by
Benedikt Lwe
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitt Bonn, Germany
Wolfgang Malzkorn
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitt Bonn, Germany
Thoralf Rsch
Universitt Potsdam, Germany
TRENDS IN LOGIC -- 17
"Foundations of the Formal Sciences" (FotFS) is a series of
interdisciplinary conferences in mathematics, philosophy, computer science
and linguistics. The main goal is to reestablish the traditionally strong
links between these areas of research that have been lost in the past decades.
The second conference in the series had the subtitle "Applications of
Mathematical Logic in Philosophy and Linguistics" and brought speakers from
all parts of the Formal Sciences together to give a holistic view of how
mathematical methods can improve our philosophical and technical
understanding of language and scientific discourse, ranging from the
theoretical level up to applications in language recognition software.
audience: This volume is of interest to all formal philosophers and
theoretical linguists. In addition to that, logicians interested in the
applications of their field and logic students in mathematics, computer
science, philosophy and linguistics can use the volume to broaden their
knowledge of applications of logic.
Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1154-7 Date: February 2003 Pages: 304 pp.
EURO 110.00 / USD 106.00 / GBP 70.00
(3)
Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research
Volume XVIII
edited by
John C. Smart
Center for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Memphis, TN, USA
William G. Tierney
Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California, Los
Angeles, USA
HIGHER EDUCATION: HANDBOOK OF THEORY AND RESEARCH -- XVIII
CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS
From Number Crunching to Spirituality; A.W. Astin. State Governance Reform
of Higher Education: Patterns, Trends, and Theories of the Public Policy
Process; M.K. McLendon. College Environments, Diversity, and Student
Learning; S. Hurtado, E.L. Dey, P. Gurin, G. Gurin. Identity Research in
Higher Education: Communalities, Differences, and Complementarities; K.A.
Renn, P. Dilley, M. Prentice. What Can Labor Economics Tell Us About the
Earnings and Employment Prospects for Faculty? R.K. Toutkoushian. Studying
Faculty Salary Equity: A Review of Theoretical and Methodological
Approaches; L.W. Perna. Using Multilevel SEM to Study Leadership
Effectiveness in Higher Education; V.J. Rosser. Event History Methods:
Conceptual Issues and An Application to Student Departure from College;
S.L. DesJardins. Globalization and Universities; J. Currie. Evaluating
College and University Teaching: Reflections of a Practitioner; W.E.
Cashin. Confronting the Burden of the Past: The Historical Antecedents of
the Present Predicament of African Universities; Y.G-M. Lulat. An
Institutional Perspective on Higher Education Policy: The Case of Academic
Quality Assurance; D.D. Dill.
Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1231-4 Date: April 2003 Pages: 550 pp.
EURO 192.00 / USD 188.00 / GBP 121.00
Paperback ISBN: 1-4020-1232-2 Date: April 2003 Pages: 550 pp.
EURO 65.00 / USD 62.00 / GBP 42.00
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