Title page; Introduction; Contents; Me, My Avatar, and I: Exploring Virtual Worlds; Living with the Golem: Robots and Autonomous Agents; Mind and World: Knowing, Thinking, and Representing; Computing in Society: Designing, Learning, and Searching; Author Index
Summary
Focuses on the multi-faceted 'computational turn' that is occurring through the interaction of the disciplines of philosophy and computing. This book explores the phenomenon of virtual worlds. It focuses on robots and artificial agents. It discusses the relation between human mentality and information processing in computers