The Actor and the Spectator: Foundations of the Theory of Human Action by Lewis White Beck

The Actor and the Spectator: Foundations of the Theory of Human Action

Lewis White Beck

152 pages first pub 1975 (editions)

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Can a machine think? More pointedly, if I am a machine, can I think? Beck answers these questions by analyzing two clusters of metaphors -- one of which dramatizes human beings as spontaneous agents (actors), and the other sees them as observers a...

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