Speaking Minds: Interviews with Twenty Eminent Cognitive Scientists

Baumgartner, Peter; Payr, Sabine

ISBN 10: 0691029016 / ISBN 13: 9780691029016

Edité par Princeton University Press (edition First Edition), 1996

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• Titre: Speaking Minds: Interviews with Twenty Eminent Cognitive Scientists
• Éditeur: Princeton University Press (edition First Edition)
• Date de parution: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0691029016
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780691029016
• Reliure: Paperback
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Very Good

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Synopsis

The attempt to engineer humanlike intelligence by artificial means has sparked a debate among psychologists, neuroscientists, philosophers and linguists. Are there general principles that would fully describe the activity of both animal and machine minds? This text contains 20 interviews with leading researchers addressing these and other vexing questions in the field of cognitive science.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Few developments in the intellectual life of the past quarter-century have provoked more controversy than the attempt to engineer human-like intelligence by artificial means. Born of computer science, this effort has sparked a continuing debate among the psychologists, neuroscientists, philosophers,and linguists who have pioneered--and criticized--artificial intelligence. Are there general principles, as some computer scientists had originally hoped, that would fully describe the activity of both animal and machine minds, just as aerodynamics accounts for the flight of birds and airplanes? In the twenty substantial interviews published here, leading researchers address this and other vexing questions in the field of cognitive science. The interviewees include Patricia Smith Churchland (Take It Apart and See How It Runs), Paul M. Churchland (Neural Networks and Commonsense), Aaron V. Cicourel (Cognition and Cultural Belief), Daniel C. Dennett (In Defense of AI), Hubert L. Dreyfus (Cognitivism Abandoned), Jerry A. Fodor (The Folly of Simulation), John Haugeland (Farewell to GOFAI?), George Lakoff (Embodied Minds and Meanings), James L. McClelland (Toward a Pragmatic Connectionism), Allen Newell (The Serial Imperative), Stephen E. Palmer (Gestalt Psychology Redux), Hilary Putnam (Against the New Associationism), David E. Rumelhart (From Searching to Seeing), John R. Searle (Ontology Is the Question), Terrence J. Sejnowski (The Hardware Really Matters), Herbert A. Simon (Technology Is Not the Problem), Joseph Weizenbaum (The Myth of the Last Metaphor), Robert Wilensky (Why Play the Philosophy Game?), Terry A. Winograd (Computers and Social Values), and Lotfi A. Zadeh (The Albatross of Classical Logic). Speaking Minds can complement more traditional textbooks but can also stand alone as an introduction to the field. Originally published in 1995. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to ag