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Routledge The Assumption of Agency Theory: A Realist Theory of the Production of Agency (Ontological Explorations Routledge Critical Realism)

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The Assumption of Agency Theory revisits the Turing Test and examines what Turing’s assessor knew. It asks important questions about how machines vis à vis humans have been characterized since Turing, and seeks to reverse the trend of looking closely at the machine by asking what humans know in interaction and how they know it. Building upon existing theories of philosophy of mind, this book shows not how humans operate theoretically, but how they use every day human skill to overcome knowledge barriers and understand each other through knowing themselves. Only once human interaction has been theorized in this way are machines able to be placed within it; when it is easier to understand what humans believe them to be. This book characterizes a non-human agent that shows itself in interaction but is distinct from human agency: an agent acting with us in our ongoing reproduction and transformation of structure. Turing predicted that at the end of the twentieth century, we would refer to thinking machines ‘without fear of contradiction’. The Assumption of Agency Theory shows how and why, even if we don’t say it, we deal with machines every day as if they are thinking, acting agents. Review '...succeeds in producing a firm argument that leads towards a step that is long overdue: to incorporate the presence of intelligent, ‘behaving’ machines directly into theories of the social (and human) sciences.'-Kathrine Elizabeth Anker in the Journal of Critical Realism, vol 11 no 4 About the Author Kate Forbes-Pitt left a career in IT to read Sociology at the London School of Economics before earning her PhD in Philosophy of Social Science at Lancaster University. Kate currently holds a post-doctoral position at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, pursuing a philosophy of virtual worlds.

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Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0415782112
Category: Books > Subjects > Politics, Philosophy & Social Sciences > Philosophy > Epistemology
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Release Date: 01 April 2011
Listed Since: 28 July 2010

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