Ethical AI and Librarianship
A Resource Guide
An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence: Thinking with Machines from Decartes to the Digital Age
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| Title | An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence: Thinking with Machines from Decartes to the Digital Age |
| Type | Books |
| Creator | David W. Bates |
| Link | https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo212878817.html |
| Creation Date | 2024 |
| Last Updated Date | -- |
| Summary | In An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence: Thinking with Machines from Decartes to the Digital Age, Bates traces how our understanding of human cognition has been historically co-produced alongside evolving machine metaphors. From Decartes’s automata to Kant’s transcendental subject, through the rise of cybernetics and contemporary AI, Bates illustrates how the boundaries between natural and artificial intelligence have always been porous. Drawing on central theories of philosophy, intellectual history, and cognitive science, the book demonstrates that what we call “intelligence” is not fixed or purely biological. Instead, it is shaped by sociotechnical imaginaries through which we think. Bates offers a compelling account of how machines have long structure the way we define being human. |
| Topic | AI. Human-AI Relationship. |
| Source and Link | The University of Chicago Press. https://press.uchicago.edu/index.html |
| Access | Find it at your library! Link to WorldCat to find print book: https://search.worldcat.org/title/1392077550 | .
| Accessibility | -- |
| Audience | General. Information Professionals. |
| Platform or Format | Print book |
| Length | 394 pages |
| Geography | General |
| Language | ENG |
| Description Date | 06/19/2025 |