Introduction to Cognitive Science
The Turing Test
and the Chinese Room Argument
Last Update: 30 January 2012
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Philosophy of AI
The Turing Test
The Chinese-Room Argument:
Searle, John R. (1980),
"Minds, Brains, and Programs"
,
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
3: 417-457.
Searle, John R. (1986),
Minds, Brains and Science: 1984 Reith Lectures
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press).
The secondary literature, both by Searle and by others, on the CRA is immense. The best brief overviews are:
Hauser, Larry
(2001),
"The Chinese Room Argument"
,
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
.
Cole, David (2004),
"The Chinese Room Argument"
, in Edward N. Zalta (ed.),
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2004 Edition)
Suits, David B.
(1989),
"Out of the Chinese Room"
,
Computers & Philosophy Newsletter
4(1–2) (July): 1–7. [HTML]
[PDF]
This is one of my favorite essays on the CRA;
at long last, it's online.
And here's a cartoon illustration of one of its points
(read the paper if you don't understand why!):
How to Pass a Turing Test and Escape from the Chinese Room
Rapaport's essays on the TT and the CRA, etc.
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William J. Rapaport
(
rapaport@buffalo.edu
)
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