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The Assumption of Agency Theory: Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)

Autor Kate Forbes-Pitt
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 mai 2014
The Assumption of Agency Theory revisits the Turing Test and examines what Turing’s assessor knew. It asks important questions about how machines vis à vis humans have been characterized since Turing, and seeks to reverse the trend of looking closely at the machine by asking what humans know in interaction and how they know it.
Building upon existing theories of philosophy of mind, this book shows not how humans operate theoretically, but how they use every day human skill to overcome knowledge barriers and understand each other through knowing themselves. Only once human interaction has been theorized in this way are machines able to be placed within it; when it is easier to understand what humans believe them to be. This book characterizes a non-human agent that shows itself in interaction but is distinct from human agency: an agent acting with us in our ongoing reproduction and transformation of structure. Turing predicted that at the end of the twentieth century, we would refer to thinking machines ‘without fear of contradiction’. The Assumption of Agency Theory shows how and why, even if we don’t say it, we deal with machines every day as if they are thinking, acting agents.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138797970
ISBN-10: 1138797979
Pagini: 182
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction  Chapter 1: Philosophical Assumptions  Section 1: Self-knowledge and the Assumption of Agency  Chapter 2: Problem of Other Minds: the importance of first-order concepts  Chapter 3: What it Means to be Minded: intentionality  Chapter 4: Reasons and Causes  Chapter 5: Preliminary Statements About Agency  Section 2: Interaction, Maintenance of Agency and the Unexplained Act  Chapter 6: The Ego Agent and Structure  Chapter 7: Maintenance of Agency: first order concepts through interaction  Chapter 8: Satisfying the Conditions of Agency: using the action-mind chain  Chapter 9: The Unexplained Act: arriving at the evinced agent  Section 3: Technology as Agent  Chapter 10: Technology as Evinced Agent: disappearing the machine  Chapter 11: Disappearing the Machine into the Ego Agent: 3D interaction and its implications for agency and reality  Conclusion

Recenzii

'...succeeds in producing a firm argument that leads towards a step that is long overdue: to incorporate the presence of intelligent, ‘behaving’ machines directly into theories of the social (and human) sciences.'
-Kathrine Elizabeth Anker in the Journal of Critical Realism, vol 11 no 4

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The Assumption of Agency Theory revisits the Turing Test and examines what Turing’s assessor knew. It asks important questions about how machines vis à vis humans have been characterized since Turing, and seeks to reverse the trend of looking closely at the machine by asking what humans know in interaction and how they know it. This book characterizes a non-human agent that shows itself in interaction but is distinct from human agency: an agent acting with us in our ongoing reproduction and transformation of structure. Turing predicted that at the end of the twentieth century, we would refer to thinking machines ‘without fear of contradiction’. The Assumption of Agency Theory shows how and why, even if we don’t say it, we deal with machines every day as if they are thinking, acting agents.