Building Simple Mechanical MindsUsing LEGO® Robots for Research and Teaching in Philosophy.

In this essay I discuss how I built a cognitive-robotics lab using inexpensive LEGO® MINDSTORMS™ robot kits. The lab has provided pedagogical and research opportunities for a number of philosophy courses, and I briefly describe the results of those efforts. I also describe how one might build a simi...

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Publicado en:Metaphilosophy Vol. 33; no. 1/2; pp. 110 - 123
Autor principal: Sullins, John P.
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Jan2002
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