Tech Report CS-91-31

Trends in Epistemology

Peter Wegner

April 1991

Abstract:

This paper has two primary objectives:\medskip

(1) To review trends in epistemology, emphasizing twentieth-century developments but starting from Greek beginnings.\medskip

(2) To reexamine the criticisms by Searle and Penrose of Turing's hypothesis that machines can think.

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