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  • Great Philosophical Objections to Artificial Intelligence

    The History and Legacy of the AI Wars

    by Eric Dietrich, Chris Fields, John P. Sullins, Bram Van Heuveln, Robin Zebrowski ...
    An entertaining introduction to the clashes between philosophy and AI over the last 70 years, from claims and counter-claims about the ability to implement consciousness, to arguments about cognitive architecture and ChatGPT.Now updated to include the latest developments in AI, this is an exploration of the most famous philosophical arguments against building a machine with human-level ... Read more

    $37.09 CAD

  • Great Philosophical Objections to Artificial Intelligence

    The History and Legacy of the AI Wars

    by Eric Dietrich, Chris Fields, John P. Sullins, Bram Van Heuveln, Robin Zebrowski ...
    A 2022 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThis book surveys and examines the most famous philosophical arguments against building a machine with human-level intelligence.From claims and counter-claims about the ability to implement consciousness, rationality, and meaning, to arguments about cognitive architecture, the book presents a vivid history of the clash between the philosophy and AI. ... Read more

    $49.69 CAD

  • Excellent Beauty

    The Naturalness of Religion and the Unnaturalness of the World

    by Eric Dietrich ...
    Flipping convention on its head, Eric Dietrich argues that science uncovers awe-inspiring, enduring mysteries, while religion, regarded as the source for such mysteries, is a biological phenomenon. Just like spoken language, Dietrich shows that religion is an evolutionary adaptation. Science is the source of perplexing yet beautiful mysteries, however natural the search for answers may be to human ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

  • Cognitive Dynamics

    Conceptual and Representational Change in Humans and Machines

    Edited by Eric Dietrich, Arthur B. Markman ...
    Recent work in cognitive science, much of it placed in opposition to a computational view of the mind, has argued that the concept of representation and theories based on that concept are not sufficient to explain the details of cognitive processing. These attacks on representation have focused on the importance of context sensitivity in cognitive processing, on the range of individual differences ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

  • Passport Not Required

    U.S. Volunteers in the Royal Navy, 1939-1941

    by Estate of Eric J Dietrich-Berryman USN (Ret.), Charlotte E Hammond, Ronald E White ...
    Before America entered World War II, twenty-two U.S. citizens went to England and volunteered with the Royal Navy. Commissioned between September 1939 and November 1941, they fought in the Battle of the Atlantic and on a variety of fronts. While the history of Americans serving in the Royal Air Force is well known, the story of these naval volunteers has not been previously told. Most trained at ... Read more

    $13.19 CAD

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  • Assault on Juno

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  • The Longest Day

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  • The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Science

    Edited by Keith Frankish, William Ramsey ...
    Cognitive science is a cross-disciplinary enterprise devoted to understanding the nature of the mind. In recent years, investigators in philosophy, psychology, the neurosciences, artificial intelligence, and a host of other disciplines have come to appreciate how much they can learn from one another about the various dimensions of cognition. The result has been the emergence of one of the most ... Read more

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  • The Necessary War, Volume 1

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  • Target Tirpitz

    X-Craft, Agents and Dambusters - The Epic Quest to Destroy Hitler’s Mightiest Warship

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