La Mettrie Machine Man And Other Writings
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La Mettrie Machine Man And Other Writings
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Author : Julien Offray de La Mettrie
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1996-04-18
La Mettrie Machine Man And Other Writings written by Julien Offray de La Mettrie and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-04-18 with Philosophy categories.
Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-51), author of Machine Man (1747), was the most uncompromising of the materialists of the eighteenth century, and the provocative title of his work ensured it a succès de scandale in his own time. It was however a serious, if polemical, attempt to provide an explanation of the workings of the human body and mind in purely material terms and to show that thought was the product of the workings of the brain alone. This fully annotated edition presents an English translation of the text together with the most important of La Mettrie's other philosophical works translated into English, and Ann Thomson's introduction examines his aims and the scandalous moral consequences which he drew from his materialism.
La Mettrie Machine Man And Other Writings
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Author : Julien Offray de La Mettrie
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1996-04-18
La Mettrie Machine Man And Other Writings written by Julien Offray de La Mettrie and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-04-18 with Philosophy categories.
Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-51), author of Man a Machine (1747), was the most uncompromising of the materialists of the eighteenth century, and the provocative title of his work ensured it a succès de scandale in his own time. This fully annotated edition presents a new English translation of the text together with the most important of La Mettrie's other philosophical works, translated into English for the first time. Ann Thomson's introduction examines his aims and the scandalous moral consequences which he drew from his materialism.
Man A Machine And Man A Plant
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Author : Julien Offray de La Mettrie
language : en
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Release Date : 1994-01-01
Man A Machine And Man A Plant written by Julien Offray de La Mettrie and has been published by Hackett Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-01-01 with Philosophy categories.
The first modern translation of the complete texts of La Mettrie's pioneering L'Homme machine and L'Homme plante, first published in 1747 and 1748, respectively, this volume also includes translations of the advertisement and dedication to L'Homme machine. Justin Leiber's introduction illuminates the radical thinking and advocacy of the passionate La Mettrie and provides cogent analysis of La Mettrie's relationship to such important philosophical figures as Descartes, Malebranche, and Locke, and of his lasting influence on the development of materialism, cognitive studies, linguistics, and other areas of intellectual inquiry.
Man A Machine
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Author : Julien Offray de La Mettrie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1927
Man A Machine written by Julien Offray de La Mettrie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1927 with Materialism categories.
Man A Machine
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Author : Julien Offray de La Mettrie
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-05-29
Man A Machine written by Julien Offray de La Mettrie and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-29 with Fiction categories.
Man a Machine is a book on philosophy by Julien Offray de La Mettrie. The author was a French physician and philosopher, and one of the earliest of the French materialists of the Enlightenment movement.
Man A Machine
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Author : Julien Offray de La Mettrie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
Man A Machine written by Julien Offray de La Mettrie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with Materialism categories.
Includes Frederick the Great's "Eulogy" on La Mettrie's "The Natural History of the Soul."
Lamettrie S L Homme Machine
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Author : Aram Vartanian
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-12-08
Lamettrie S L Homme Machine written by Aram Vartanian and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-08 with Materialism categories.
As a classic of the French Enlightenment, L'Homme Machine has in the past been of equal interest to students of philosophy, science, and literature. The present edition offers the first established text, with extensive notes. In his introduction, Dr. Vartanian discusses La Mettrie's thesis, its sources, the place of the man-machine idea in the development of La Mettrie's materialism, and its critical impact on the intellectual struggles of the eighteenth century. Originally published in 1960. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The Turing Test
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Author : Stuart M. Shieber
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2004-06-18
The Turing Test written by Stuart M. Shieber and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06-18 with Computers categories.
Historical and contemporary papers on the philosophical issues raised by the Turing Test as a criterion for intelligence. The Turing Test is part of the vocabulary of popular culture—it has appeared in works ranging from the Broadway play "Breaking the Code" to the comic strip "Robotman." The writings collected by Stuart Shieber for this book examine the profound philosophical issues surrounding the Turing Test as a criterion for intelligence. Alan Turing's idea, originally expressed in a 1950 paper titled "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" and published in the journal Mind, proposed an "indistinguishability test" that compared artifact and person. Following Descartes's dictum that it is the ability to speak that distinguishes human from beast, Turing proposed to test whether machine and person were indistinguishable in regard to verbal ability. He was not, as is often assumed, answering the question "Can machines think?" but proposing a more concrete way to ask it. Turing's proposed thought experiment encapsulates the issues that the writings in The Turing Test define and discuss. The first section of the book contains writings by philosophical precursors, including Descartes, who first proposed the idea of indistinguishablity tests. The second section contains all of Turing's writings on the Turing Test, including not only the Mind paper but also less familiar ephemeral material. The final section opens with responses to Turing's paper published in Mind soon after it first appeared. The bulk of this section, however, consists of papers from a broad spectrum of scholars in the field that directly address the issue of the Turing Test as a test for intelligence. Contributors John R. Searle, Ned Block, Daniel C. Dennett, and Noam Chomsky (in a previously unpublished paper). Each chapter is introduced by background material that can also be read as a self-contained essay on the Turing Test
The Wisdom Of Pleasures
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Author : Julien Offray de la Mettrie
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2018-11-05
The Wisdom Of Pleasures written by Julien Offray de la Mettrie and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-05 with categories.
He's known for his audacious claim in 'Man a Machine' that humans can be reduced to their mechanism: but La Mettrie wrote other books too. In these hidden gems, the most radical of all Enlightenment thinkers lays bare his hedonistic ideas. In a godless universe that seems to be engineered only around pleasure and pain, how should we act? Should we just give in to all-out debauchery as our destiny, or is there a nobler path?This is the first-ever English translation of these books, which were originally published in 1747 and 1751.
Lamettrie S L Homme Machine
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Author : Aram Vartanian
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2015-12-08
Lamettrie S L Homme Machine written by Aram Vartanian and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
As a classic of the French Enlightenment, L'Homme Machine has in the past been of equal interest to students of philosophy, science, and literature. The present edition offers the first established text, with extensive notes. In his introduction, Dr. Vartanian discusses La Mettrie’s thesis, its sources, the place of the man-machine idea in the development of La Mettrie’s materialism, and its critical impact on the intellectual struggles of the eighteenth century. Originally published in 1960. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.