The Turing Test is part of the vocabulary of popular culture. The writings collected by Stuart Shieber for this book examine the profound philosophical issues surrounding the Turing Test as a criterion for intelligence.

The second section contains all of Turing's writings on the Turing Test, including not only the "Mind" paper, but also less familiar ephemeral material. The final section opens with responses to Turing's paper published in "Mind" soon after the paper first appeared. The bulk of this section, however, consists of papers from a broad spectrum of scholars in the fields that directly address the issue of the Turing Test as a test of intelligence.