Machine speech and speaking about machines
- Univ. of Wisconsin, Whitewater, WI (United States)
Current philosophy of language prides itself on scientific status. It boasts of being no longer contaminated with queer mental entities or idealist essences. It theorizes language as programmable variants of formal semantic systems, reimaginable either as the properly epiphenomenal machine functions of computer science or the properly material neural networks of physiology. Whether or not such models properly capture the physical workings of a living human brain is a question that scientists will have to answer. I, as a philosopher, come at the problem from another direction. Does contemporary philosophical semantics, in its dominant truth-theoretic and related versions, capture actual living human thought as it is experienced, or does it instead reflect, regardless of (perhaps dubious) scientific credentials, pathology of thought, a pathology with a disturbing social history.
- OSTI ID:
- 466427
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9610138-; TRN: 97:001309-0006
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: International multi-disciplinary conference on intelligent systems: a semiotic perspective, Gaithersburg, MD (United States), 21-23 Oct 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Intelligent systems: A semiotic perspective. Volume I: Theoretical semiotics; Albus, J.; Meystel, A.; Quintero, R.; PB: 303 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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