The Turing test: verbal behavior as the hallmark of intelligence

I. Precursors

Bete machine

1. Discourse on the method, chapter V / Rene Descartes

If animals could talk

2. Letter to the Marquess of Newcastle / Rene Descartes

Homme machine

3. Selections from Machine man / Julien Offray de La Mettrie

II. Turing's test

Computer technology

4. Computing machinery and intelligence / Alan M. Turing

ephemera

5. Intelligent machinery, a heretical theory / Alan M. Turing

6. Can digital computers think? / Alan M. Turing

7. Can automatic calculating machines be said to think? / M. H. A. Newman, Alan M. Turing, Geoffrey Jefferson and R. B. Braithwaite

III. Philosophical reaction and the Mind responsa

Immediate responses

Can machines have neuroses?

8. Do machines think about machines thinking / Leonard Pinsky

wedge and the spark

9. imitation game / Keith Gunderson

Early harbingers of later issues

10. Beating the imitation game / Richard Purtill

11. In defence of Turing / Geoffrey Sampson

12. On the point of the imitation game / P. H. Millar

Turing test chauvinism

13. Subcognition and the limits of the Turing test / Robert M. French

spark of intentionality

14. Minds, brains, and programs / John R. Searle

spark of richness of information processing

15. Psychologism and behaviorism / Ned Block

supporting view

16. Can machines think? / Daniel C. Dennett

turing test's evidentiary value

17. analysis of the Turing test / James H. Moor

18. Why machines can't think : a reply to James Moor / Douglas F. Stalker

19. Explaining computer behavior / James H. Moor

Dumping the big question

20. Turing on the "imitation game" / Noam Chomsky.