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Logic Primer (Paperback, second edition): Colin Allen, Michael Hand Logic Primer (Paperback, second edition)
Colin Allen, Michael Hand
R850 R723 Discovery Miles 7 230 Save R127 (15%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Logic Primer presents a rigorous introduction to natural deduction systems of sentential and first-order logic. Logic Primer presents a rigorous introduction to natural deduction systems of sentential and first-order logic. The text is designed to foster the student-instructor relationship. The key concepts are laid out in concise definitions and comments, with the expectation that the instructor will elaborate upon them. New to the second edition is the addition of material on the logic of identity in chapters 3 and 4. An innovative interactive Web site, consisting of a "Logic Daemon" and a "Quizmaster," encourages students to formulate their own proofs and links them to appropriate explanations in the book.

Logic Primer, third edition (Paperback): Colin Allen, Michael Hand Logic Primer, third edition (Paperback)
Colin Allen, Michael Hand
R991 R906 Discovery Miles 9 060 Save R85 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Moral Machines - Teaching Robots Right from Wrong (Hardcover): Wendell Wallach, Colin Allen Moral Machines - Teaching Robots Right from Wrong (Hardcover)
Wendell Wallach, Colin Allen
R1,896 Discovery Miles 18 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Computers are already approving financial transactions, controlling electrical supplies, and driving trains. Soon, service robots will be taking care of the elderly in their homes, and military robots will have their own targeting and firing protocols. Colin Allen and Wendell Wallach argue that as robots take on more and more responsibility, they must be programmed with moral decision-making abilities, for our own safety. Taking a fast paced tour through the latest thinking about philosophical ethics and artificial intelligence, the authors argue that even if full moral agency for machines is a long way off, it is already necessary to start building a kind of functional morality, in which artificial moral agents have some basic ethical sensitivity. But the standard ethical theories don't seem adequate, and more socially engaged and engaging robots will be needed. As the authors show, the quest to build machines that are capable of telling right from wrong has begun.
Moral Machines is the first book to examine the challenge of building artificial moral agents, probing deeply into the nature of human decision making and ethics.

Species of Mind - The Philosophy and Biology of Cognitive Ethology (Paperback, New Ed): Colin Allen, Marc Bekoff Species of Mind - The Philosophy and Biology of Cognitive Ethology (Paperback, New Ed)
Colin Allen, Marc Bekoff
R1,274 Discovery Miles 12 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The heart of this book is the reciprocal relationship between philosophical theories of mind and empirical studies of animal cognition. Colin Allen (a philosopher) and Marc Bekoff (a cognitive ethologist) approach their work from a perspective that considers arguments about evolutionary continuity to be as applicable to the study of animal minds and brains as they are to comparative studies of kidneys, stomachs, and hearts. Cognitive ethologists study the comparative, evolutionary, and ecological aspects of the mental phenomena of animals. Philosophy can provide cognitive ethology with an analytical basis for attributing cognition to nonhuman animals and for studying it, and cognitive ethology can help philosophy to explain mentality in naturalistic terms by providing data on the evolution of cognition. This interdiscipinary approach reveals flaws in common objections to the view that animals have minds. The heart of the book is this reciprocal relationship between philosophical theories of mind and empirical studies of animal cognition. All theoretical discussion is carefully tied to case studies, particularly in the areas of antipredatory vigilance and social play, where there are many points of contact with philosophical discussions of intentionality and representation. Allen and Bekoff make specific suggestions about how to use philosophical theories of intentionality as starting points for empirical investigation of animal minds, and they stress the importance of studying animals other than nonhuman primates.

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