The Turing Test Argument (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy)

Cover\nHalf Title\nSeries Page\nTitle Page\nCopyright Page\nDedication\nTable of Contents\nAcknowledgments\n1 Introduction\n	1.1 Can Machines Think?\n	1.2 What is the Turing Test?\n	1.3 The Contributions and the Organization of This Book\n	1.4 The Turing Sources: Corpus and Periodization\n	1.5 The Methods Used in This Book\n2 Reception History, 1950–2020\n	2.1 The 1950s: The Early Reception\n	2.2 1960s–1990s: Minds, Machines, and Consciousness\n	2.3 The 1990s: Aftermath of a ‘Social Experiment’\n	2.4 The 2000s: a New Wave of Commentary\n	2.5 The 2010s: Some of the Latest Commentary\n	2.6 Conclusion\n3 Turing’s Imitation Principle\n	3.1 Argument Sketch\n	3.2 Learning is the Foundation for Think[sub(2)], 1945–1952\n	3.3 In Search of an Empirical Basis For Think[sub(2)], 1948–1952\n	3.4 Imitation of Think[sub(1)] is the Empirical Basis for Think[sub(2)]\n	3.5 How Mechanical Can Think[sub(1)] Be?\n	3.6 Conclusion\n4 The Controversy that Led to the Turing Test\n	4.1 The Purpose of the Turing Test\n	4.2 Core Events of 1949, the Crucial Year\n	4.3 The Controversy in England, 1946–1950\n	4.4 Turing’s Exchanges With Douglas Hartree\n	4.5 Turing’s Exchanges With Michael Polanyi\n	4.6 Turing’s Exchanges With Geoffrey Jefferson\n	4.7 Conclusion\n5 The Turing Test Is a Thought Experiment\n	5.1 The Turing Test Dilemma\n	5.2 Argument Sketch\n	5.3 Turing’s Presentation of his Test\n	5.4 Turing’s Use of the Basic Method of Thought Experiments\n	5.5 Turing’s Critical Use of his Test\n	5.6 Turing’s Heuristic Use of his Test\n	5.7 Conclusion\n6 Galilean Resonances\n	6.1 Turing’s Rhetoric of a Crucial Experiment\n	6.2 Argument Sketch\n	6.3 Turing’s Construction of Machine Intelligence\n	6.4 Turing’s 1950 Paper, an Exegesis\n	6.5 Galileo’s Construction of Idealized Fall in a Void\n	6.6 Turing’s Use of Thought Experiment and Propaganda\n	6.7 Conclusion\n7 Irony With a Point\n	7.1 Intelligent Machinery, a Heretical Theory\n	7.2 Argument Sketch\n	7.3 Three Images of Turing\n	7.4 The Ironic Turing\n	7.5 Turing’s Promethean Irreverence\n	7.6 Satiric Novels and Turing’s Conception of an Intelligent Machine\n	7.7 Turing as Dr. Frankenstein?\n	7.8 Turing’s Intelligent Machine Utopia\n	7.9 Conclusion\n8 Conclusion\nBibliography\nIndex