Baumgartner, Peter & Payr, Sabine, ed. (1995). Speaking Minds. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. [buy book]
Steven Pinker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology:
If you're interested in minds, brains, and machines, this book has
something for you, regardless of your opinions and expertise.... The
candor and informality make the interviews great fun to read, but the
speakers are at heart dead serious.... An informative and useful
introduction to current controversies in cognitive science. --This
text refers to the hardcover edition of this title.
Richard Cooper, The Times Higher Education Supplement :
An invaluable accompaniment to a standard text and an excellent
educated layman's introduction to some of the more computational
issues in the science of the mind. --This text refers to the
hardcover edition of this title.
New Scientist:
Enough food for thought to satisfy the most hungry of intellects.
--This text refers to the hardcover edition of this title.
From the Publisher:
Few developments in the intellectual life of the past quarter century
have provoked more controversy than the attempt to engineer
humanlike intelligence by artificial means. Born of computer science,
this effort has sparked a continuing debate among psychologists,
neuroscientists, philosophers, and linguists who have pioneered and
criticized artificial intelligence. Are there general principles that would
fully describe the activity of both animal and machine minds? In the
twenty interviews published here, leading researchers address these
and other vexing questions in the field of cognitive science. --This
text refers to the hardcover edition of this title.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Take It Apart and See How It Runs
By Patricia Smith Churchland
Neural Networks and Common sense
By Paul M. Churchland
Cognition and Cultural Belief
By Aaron V. Cicourel
In Defense of AI
By Daniel C. Dennett
Cognitivism Abandoned
By Hubert L. Dreyfus
The Folly of Simulation
By Jerry A. Fodor
Farewell to GOFAI?
By John Haugeland
Embodied Minds and Meanings
By George Lakoff
Toward a Pragmatic Connectionism
By James L. McClelland
The Serial Imperative
By Allen Newell
Gestalt Psychology Redux
By Stephen E. Palmer
Against the New Associationism
By Hilary Putnam
From Searching to Seeing
By David E. Rumelhart
Ontology Is the Question
By John R. Searle
The Hardware Really Matters
By Terrence J. Sejnowski
Technology Is Not the Problem
By Herbert A. Simon
The Myth of the Last Metaphor
By Joseph Weizenbaum
Why Play the Philosophy Game?
By Robert Wilensky
Computers and Social Values
By Terry A. Winograd
The Albatross of Classical Logic
By Lotfi A. Zadeh
Glossary
Bibliography
Index