The Robot’s Rebellion by Keith E. Stanovich, University of Chicago Press, $27.50, ISBN 0226770893 Reviewed by Mike Holderness
WHAT, asked the shop assistant as I was paying for my groceries, is that book about? I was sort of hoping that it would rehabilitate free will, I answered, but at the moment it seems to be a defence of rational choice theory in capitalism. You never know, he reassured me, there might be a surprise ending…
And Keith Stanovich, who holds a research chair in applied cognitive science at the University of Toronto, does provide one in The Robot’s Rebellion. I’d…
