Seldom do I see manuscripts that provide a radically new framework which promises to solve or to reframe many of the classical problems in computation, formal semantics, ontology, as well as epistomology. His notion of partial connectedness provides a fundamental way around the uncomputable problem of reference and in fact recasts much of analytic philosophy. My delight in this book, however, has little to do with philosophy, but more to do with how this framework helps us re-examine certain issues in the connectionist paradigm and neuroscience. -- John Seely Brown, Vice President for Research, Xerox PARC Palo Alto Research Center A bold and deeply original attempt to ground the meaning of objectivity in our material and social participation in the world. -- Evelyn Fox Keller, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, MIT Like the work of Simon, Chomsky, Kuhn, and Foucault, Brian Smith's On the Origin of Objects comes into philosophy from the outside, and stands to shake things up. This is an essay in fundamental metaphysics, but not like any we've ever seen before. Bringing to ontology the training of a computer scientist, and the sensibilities of an artist-engineer, Smith recreates our understanding of objects essentially from scratch -- and changes, I think, everything. -- John Haugeland, Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh This book develops a highly original and important account of representation and ontology that is interdisciplinary amongst computer science, philosophy and cognitive science. Work on the theory of representation has been fundamental within these disciplines, but representational practice has outstripped theory. Brian Smith argues against a formalist conception in favor of an account which explains how objects are 'registered.' -- Adrian Cussins, University of California Like the work of Simon, Chomsky, Kuhn, and Foucault, Brian Cantwell Smith's On the Origin of Objects comes into philosophy from theoutside and stands to shake things up. This is an essay in fundamental metaphysics, but not like any we've ever seen before. Bringing to ontology the training of a computer scientist, and the sensibilities of an artist-engineer, Smith recreates our understanding of objects essentially from scratch -- and changes, I think, everything. -- John Haugeland, Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
Like the work of Simon, Chomsky, Kuhn, and Foucault, Brian Cantwell Smith's On the Origin of Objects comes into philosophy from theoutside and stands to shake things up. This is an essay in fundamental metaphysics, but not like any we've ever seen before. Bringing to ontology the training of a computer scientist, and the sensibilities of an artist-engineer, Smith recreates our understanding of objects essentially from scratch -- and changes, I think, everything. -- John Haugeland, Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
Brian Cantwell Smith is Reid Hoffman Professor of Artificial Intelligence and the Human at the University of Toronto, where he is also Professor of Information, Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. He is the author of On the Origin of Objects (MIT Press).
"Like the work of Simon, Chomsky, Kuhn, and Foucault, Brian CantwellSmith's On the Origin of Objects comes into philosophy from theoutside and stands to shake things up. This is an essay in fundamentalmetaphysics, but not like any we've ever seen before. Bringing toontology the training of a computer scientist, and the sensibilitiesof an artist-engineer, Smith recreates our understanding of objectsessentially from scratch--and changes, I think, everything." John Haugeland , Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
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