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Inventing Intelligence: A Social History of Smart

Paul Michael Privateer
ISBN: 978-1-4051-5230-3
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280 pages
April 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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  • Charts the history of “intelligence” in a bold and provocative way.
  • Exposes the idea of intelligence as a form of representation, through a masterful cultural study of the concept.
  • Recounts in modern terms the development of intelligence from Plato through the Renaissance and Enlightenment, and contemporary views about digital intelligence and Einstein.