What Robots Can and Can’t Be

I: Introduction.- What This Book Is.- Key Theses.- A Note on Ad Hominem Attacks.- Who’s My Audience.- On Doing Philosophy.- Other Arguments Against Theses Like (PERAUT).- The General Plan.- The Cluster Approach.- Connectionism and the Arguments Herein.- What Isn’t In This Book.- Appendix 1I: Argument from Alvin Formalized.- Appendix 2I: Key Theses Mentioned Thus Far.- II: Our Machinery.- Relevant Automata and Their Relevant Properties.- Theses To Which These Considerations Give Rise.- Brief Remarks on Uncomputability.- Pre-Philosophical Data; Ontology.- The Deductive Machinery.- III: Arguments Pro, Destroyed.- The Argument From Analogy.- The Argument From What Should Remain Unexplained.- The Argument From Natural Functions.- Pollock’s Person-Building Arguments.- Cole’s Case for Person Building.- IV: What Robots Can Be.- Sherlock Holmes and Expert Systems.- Computer-Generated Fiction.- V: Searle.- The Argument From Jonah.- Three Objections to the Jonah Argument.- VI: Arbitrary Realization.- First Version of ARA.- Second Version of ARA.- Maudlin’s Olympia Attack.- VII: Gödel.- The Gödelian Argument (Informal).- Weak Objections That Nonetheless Refine the Gödelian Argument.- New Version of Gödelian Argument (Informal).- The Real Problem with the Gödelian Argument.- Is the Gödelian Argument Dead, Then?.- VIII: Free Will.- Determinism and Indeterminism.- Other Concepts; the “Dilemma”.- The Main Argument, for Real.- Iterative Agent Causation.- Main Argument’s Premises Defended.- Objections.- Conclusion.- IX: Introspection.- The Argument from Incorrigibilism.- X: Conclusion.- Index of Illustrations.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.