The Shape of Actions: What Humans and Machines Can Do

by Martin Kusch, Harry M. Collins, Harry Collins

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262526522
• ISBN13: 9780262526524
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher