Turing's Golden: How Well Turing's Work Stands Today

Author: Leiber, Justin

Source: Philosophical Psychology, Volume 19, Number 1, Number 1/February 2006 , pp. 13-46(34)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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Abstract:

A. M. Turing has bequeathed us a conceptulary including `Turing, or Turing-Church, thesis', `Turing machine', `universal Turing machine', `Turing test' and `Turing structures', plus other unnamed achievements. These include a proof that any formal language adequate to express arithmetic contains undecidable formulas, as well as achievements in computer science, artificial intelligence, mathematics, biology, and cognitive science. Here it is argued that these achievements hang together and have prospered well in the 50 years since Turing's death.

Keywords: Evolutionary Biology; Evolutionary Psychology; Minds and Machines; Materialism; Turing Machines; Turing Structures; Turing's Test; Turing Thesis; Unification of the Sciences

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/09515080500471918

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