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Michael Wheeler

Also known as: Michael Wheeler British Philosopher

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Michael William Wheeler (born 5 November 1960) is a British philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Stirling. He is known for his Heideggerian approach to contemporary cognitive science research.

FROM ITS JUMPING-OFF place at Charleston Boulevard, above the Last Vegas Strip, Rancho Drive makes a casual bend to the left and heads straight for Reno.

— from Utopia

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Artificial intelligence

1986

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Intelligent agents are employed as the central characters in this introductory text. Beginning with elementary reactive agents, Nilsson gradually increases their cognitive horsepower to illustrate the most important and lasting ideas in AI. Neural networks, genetic programming, computer vision, heuristic search, knowledge representation and reasoning, Bayes networks, planning, and language understanding are each revealed through the growing capabilities of these agents. A distinguishing feature of this text is in its evolutionary approach to the study of AI. This book provides a refreshing and motivating synthesis of the field by one of AI's master expositors and leading researches.

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The evolution of cultural entities

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Ever since Darwin, scholars have noted that cultural entities such as languages, laws and theories seem to evolve through variation, selection and replication. These essays consider whether this comparison is just a metaphor.

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Utopia

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First published in 1516, Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most important works of European humanism. Through the voice of the mysterious traveler Raphael Hythloday, More describes a pagan, communist city-state governed by reason. Addressing such issues as religious pluralism, women's rights, state-sponsored education, colonialism, and justified warfare, Utopia seems remarkably contemporary nearly five centuries after it was written, and it remains a foundational text in philosophy and political theory.

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