The Great Philosophers: Turing

Review\nThe virtue of these deceptively brief books is that they are the real thing―EVENING STANDARD\nRarely have intellectual sophistication and complexity come so cheap―FINANCIAL TIMES\nThe books should improve the cultural circulation of philosophy by their style as well as their substance―TES\nA promising venture―THE TIMES\nIf you want to acquire some first-hand experience of philosophy and democracy you would do well to read this welcome series―TIMES HIGHER EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT\nFrom WW2 code-breaker to Artificial Intelligence - a fascinating account of the remarkable Alan Turing.\nAlan Turing's 1936 paper On Computable Numbers was a landmark of twentieth-century thought. It not only provided the principle of the post-war computer, but also gave an entirely new approach to the philosophy of the mind.\nInfluenced by his crucial codebreaking work during the war, and by practical pioneering of the first electronic computers, Turing argued that all the operations of the mind could be performed by computers. His thesis is the cornerstone of modern Artificial Intelligence.\nAndrew Hodges gives a fresh analysis of Turing's work, relating it to his extraordinary life.