The Atlantic

How Aristotle Created the Computer

THE HISTORY Of computers is often told as a history of objects, from the abacus to the Babbage engine up through the code-breaking machines of World War II. In fact, it is better understood as a ...
The Conversation

Aristotle and the chatbot: how ancient rules of logic could make artificial intelligence more human

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Futurism

Terrifying-Looking Robot Powers Up, Immediately Declares Humanity Is a “Resource” to Be “Manipulated or Eliminated”

As philosophers go, Aristotle was no angel. Sure, he established the first formal system of logic, and yeah, his theories dominated Western science for thousands of years. Yet he was also an avowed ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Philosopher Mixes Classical Thought, Logic, and the Fiddle

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Nature

A Treatise of Formal Logic: its Evolution and Main Branches, with its Relations to Mathematics and Philosophy

OF all the branches of philosophy, logic alone has had the distinction of being claimed by the exact sciences as one of them. The event is of recent occurrence; in fact, it has happened only since ...