To the age-old debate over what it means to be human, the
relatively new fields of sociobiology and artificial intelligence
bring new, if not necessarily compatible, insights. What have these
two fields in common? Have they affected the way we define
humanity? These and other timely questions are addressed with
colorful individuality by the authors of The Boundaries of
Humanity. Leading researchers in both sociobiology and artificial
intelligence combine their reflections with those of philosophers,
historians, and social scientists, while the editors explore the
historical and contemporary contexts of the debate in their
introductions. The implications of their individual arguments, and
the often heated controversies generated by biological determinism
or by mechanical models of mind, go to the heart of contemporary
scientific, philosophical, and humanistic studies. Contributors:
Arnold I. Davidson, John Dupre, Roger Hahn, Stuart Hampshire,
Evelyn Fox Keller, Melvin Konner, Alan Newell, Harriet Ritvo, James
J. Sheehan, Morton Sosna, Sherry Turkle, Bernard Williams, Terry
Winograd This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program,
which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek
out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach,
and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived
makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again
using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally
published in 1991.
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