Readings
Asimov, Isaac. The Complete Robot. (Selected stories include "Robbie," "Runaround," "Liar!," "Satisfaction Guaranteed" and "Bicentennial Man")
Boden, Maragret. "Escaping the Chinese Room." The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, Margaret Boden, Ed. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000: 89-104.
——"Autonomy and Artificiality." The Philosophy of Artificial Life, Margaret Boden, Ed. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996: 95-110.
Bostrom, Nick. "In Defense of Posthuman Dignity." H±: Transhumanism and Its Critics, Hansell and Grassie, Eds. Philadelphia, Metanexus, 2011: 55-66.
Braidotti: "Post-Humanism." The Posthuman. Cambridge: Polity, 2013: 13-54.
Capek, Carl. R.U.R. New York: Penguin, 2004.
Collodi, Carlo. Pinocchio. Trans. Geoffrey Brock. New York: NYRB Classics, 2008.
Darling, Kate. "Extending Legal Rights to Social Robots."
Descartes, René. Selections from Meditations.
Dennett, "Cognitive Wheels: The Frame Problem of AI." The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, Margaret Boden, Ed. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000: 147-70.
Esposito, Roberto. Persons and Things. New York: Polity Press, 2015.
Gill-Peterson, "The Technical Capacities of the Body: Assembling Race, Technology and Transgender." TSQ 1.3 (2014): 402-18.
Haraway, Donna. "A Cyborg Manifesto." Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. New York, Routledge, 1991: 149-81.
Homer, brief selections about artificial life from The Illiad and The Odyssey. Translated by Samuel Butler.
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. New York: Harper Perennial, 2006.
Ovid, "Pygmalion" from The Metamorphoses. Trans. Rushing.
Searle, John. The "Chinese Room" (from Minds, Brains and Programs). The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, Margaret Boden, Ed. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000: 67-88.
Sloman, Aaron. "Motives, Mechanisms and Emotions." The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, Margaret Boden, Ed. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000: 231-37.
Turing, Alan. "Computing Machinery and Intelligence." The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, Margaret Boden, Ed. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000: 40-66.
Zelazny, Roger. "For a Breath I Tarry." In Unicorn Variations. New York: Harper Collins, 1985.