The Chinese Room Argument
answer the question; What is Searle’s Chinese room argument supposed to demonstrate and is the argument successful? the essay should be 1500 word and show an extensive understanding of the relevant material and issues, demonstrating an ability to formulate ideas in analysis, comprehensive understanding of methodologies with a high degree of precision, highly independent and critical judgement and use an extensive range of sources used and applied to the assignment in a highly insightful manner and of outstanding quality. Please ensure that the essay is excellently structured, focused and well-written presentation Compelling argument throughout. Suggested reading: please ensure you read through these all and ensure you have a through understanding of the essay title. Let me know if you need any help. Searle, J. R. (1986). Minds, brains, and science. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. [Chapter 2, “Can computers think?”] Boden, M. (1990) Escaping from the Chinese Room. In M. Boden (Ed.) The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence. Oxford: Oxford University Press Haugeland, J. (1986) Semantic engines: An introduction to Mind Design. In J Haugeland (ed.) Mind Design, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Heil, J. (2012) Philosophy of Mind: A contemporary introduction. New York: Routledge [Ch.7 The representational theory of mind] Kim, J. (2011) Philosophy of mind. Boulder, CA: Westview Press [Ch 5. Mind as a Computing Machine, see especially pp. 156 – 167] Searle, J. (1980). Minds, brains, and programs. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 3(3), 417-424. doi:10.1017/S0140525X00005756 Turing, A. (1950). Computing Machinery and Intelligence. Mind, 59(236), 433-460.
