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v Robert J. Stainton, Philosophical perspectives on language.(Peterborough, Ont.,:
Broadview Press, 1996) and W.G. Lycan, Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary
Introduction. (New York: Routledge, 2000)
vi Bertrand Russell, Alfred North Whitehead, young Ludwig Wittgenstein, Rudolf
Carnap, Gottlub Frege, and W.V. Quine, are the outstanding figures in this tradition.
vii For some of the early systematic thinking, see: Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind
(NY: Simon and Schuster, 1986), Artificial Intelligence with Seymour Papert (Eugene,
Oregon State System of Higher Education; [distributor: Distribution Center, University of
Oregon] 1973), writings by Herbert Simon, Representation and meaning; experiments
with information processing systems, (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1972), Terry
Winograd, Artificial intelligence and language comprehension (Washington : U.S. Dept.
of Health, Education, and Welfare, National Institute of Education, 1976, Hubert
Dreyfus, What Computers Can’t Do, (NY: Harper and Row, 1979), even Richard Powers,
Galatea 2.2 (NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1995). Daniel Crevier, AI: The Tumultuous
History of the Search for Artificial Intelligence, (NY: Basic Books, 1993) is still a useful
introduction to the emergence of crucial fault lines in this area.
viii For a range of imaginings on this topic: Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of
Electric Sheep, Rudy Rucker, Software (Eos, 1987), Bill Joy, “Why the Future Doesn’t
Need Us,” www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html Donna Haraway, Simians,
Cyborgs, and Women (NY: Routledge, 1991), and Chris Habels Gray and Steven
Mentor, The Cyborg Handbook (NY: Routledge, 1995).
ix For an extreme and then more tempered view, see first Arthur Kroker, Digital
Delirium, (NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1997) and then Wendy Chun op.cit.. The writings of
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