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Harry Collins

The Shape of Actions

What Humans and Machines Can Do

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What can humans do? What can machines do? How do humans delegate actions to machines? In this book, Harry Collins and Martin Kusch combine insights from sociology and philosophy to provide a novel answer to these increasingly important questions.The authors begin by distinguishing between two basic types of intentional behavior, which they call polimorphic actions and mimeomorphic actions. Polimorphic actions (such as writing a love letter) are ones that community members expect to vary with social context. Mimeomorphic actions (such a swinging a golf club) do not vary. Although machines cannot act, they can mimic mimeomorphic actions. Mimeom… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Kusch, Martin
  • ISBN: 978-0-262-29293-1
  • EAN: 9780262292931
  • Produktnummer: 27873914
  • Verlag: MIT Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
  • Seitenangabe: 224 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 2'117 KB

Über den Autor


Harry Collins is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for the Study of Knowledge, Expertise, and Science at Cardiff University. A Fellow of the British Academy, he is the author of Gravity's Shadow; Gravity's Ghost; Gravity's Ghost and Big Dog; Gravity's Kiss: The Detection of Gravitational Waves (MIT Press); and many other books. Martin Kusch is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna.

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