Recognition A Study in the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence by Sayre, Kenneth M - 1965

E-188: University of Notre Dame Press. Very Good. 1965. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. University Of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, 1965. Xx, 312 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards very lightly rubbed and worn. Kenneth M. Sayre is an American philosopher who spent most of his career at the University of Notre Dame (ND). His early career was devoted mainly to philosophic applications of artificial intelligence, cybernetics, and information theory. Later on his main interests shifted to Plato, philosophy of mind, and environmental philosophy. His retirement in 2014 was marked by publication of a history of ND's Philosophy Department, Adventures in Philosophy at Notre Dame. Under the influence of Marvin Minsky and Oliver Selfridge at Lincoln Laboratory, Sayre became the first trained philosopher on record to become actively involved in the new field of artificial intelligence (AI). In Recognition: A Study in the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, his first book on the topic, he set forward the working maxim that our “understanding of a type of human behavior and our ability to simulate it go hand in hand. ” A corollary is that a promising way to study natural intelligence is to attempt to reproduce it artificially. E-188; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 312 pages .