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Humanism in the Digital Age: readings

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Victor Gomez Pin, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
 Basic Bibliography
 
- Pinker Steven, The Blank Slate (The Modern Denial of Human Nature) Viking, New York,2002
- Liebermann P., The Biology and Evolution of Language, Harvard University Press, 1984
- Alan Turing “Computing machinery and intelligence”, Rev. Mind Vol. LIX, nº 236. October 1950
- John Searle, “Is the Brain’s Mind a Computer Program?”, Scientific American n 262, 1990: 26-31.


 Extended Bibliography

- Liebermann P., The Biology and Evolution of Language, Harvard University Press, 1984
- Klein, The Human Career. Human Biological and cultural origins. 1989 - University of Chicago Press
- Pinker Steven, The Blank Slate (The Modern Denial of Human Nature) Viking, New York,2002
- Pinker Steven, The Language Instinct , Harper Collins 2000
- Austin. J.L, How to do things with words, Oxford university Press. 1962
- Cowen, R. History of Life. Blackwell. 1995
- Reagan. T. & Singer. P Animal Rights and Human obligations. Petice Hall 1989
- Volpe.P & Rosebaum P.A. Understanding Evolution. Mc Graw Hill, 2000
- Hull D. & Ruse M. The philosophy of Biology. Oxford University Press, 1990
- Watson J.D. The double Helix N.Y. Atheneum 1968
- Gould S.J. The mismeasure of Man. Rev. Ed. New York W.N. Norton 1996.
- Derrick de Kerckhove, Connected Intelligence, Somerville, 1997. The skin of culture. Somerwille Press, 1995
- Roberto Cordeschi, The discovery of the Artificial Behavior, Mind and Machines before and beyond Cybernetics. Kluwer - - Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2002
- Patrice Churchland, The computational Brain, with T.J.Sejnowski. MIT press, 1992 discussion with Hubert L.Dreyfus, John - - McCarthy, Marvin L.Minsky and Seymour Papert in: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol 426, Computer culture, Heinz R.Pagels (Ed.) 1984. “Is the brain a Digital Computer?” Presidential address to the A.P.A, Proceedings of the american Philosophical Association, 1990
- Alan Turing “Computing machinery and intelligence”, Rev. Mind Vol. LIX, nº 236. October 1950, pp. 433-460
- John Searle:
“Minds, Brains and Programs”, Behavioural and Brain Sciences 3 (3), 1980: 417-457.
“Replay to Jacquette”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, XLIX, 1989: 701,708.
“Is the Brain’s Mind a Computer Program?”, Scientific American n 262, 1990: 26-31.
“The Rediscovery of the Mind” , (1992)
 
 
 
 



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