Naturalism and Narrative, Or, What Computers and Human Beings Can't Do
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7932129 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Chodat (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 685-706 |
| Publication date | 2006-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Literary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/nlh.2007.0000 |
| OpenAlex | W2054724767 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
Recent efforts to merge literary studies and cognitive science are insufficiently cognizant of important philosophical critiques of AI. Philosophers such as Dreyfus, Haugeland, and Taylor expose the naturalistic and atomistic biases of cognitivist research through their holistic emphasis on context and situated understanding. Yet these philosophical arguments are themselves haunted by important questions, which come to light in Powers's Galatea 2.2. Powers's novel dramatizes the philosophical criticisms of cognitivist theory, yet it undermines the strong connection that AI's critics often posit between narrative and moral identity. It questions not only the epistemological assumptions of computational models, but also the ethical presuppositions informing cognitivism's philosophical opponents
Cognition · Cognitivism (psychology) · Epistemology · Merge (version control) · Narrative · Naturalism · Presupposition · Situated · Sociology · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |