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Speaking Minds: Interviews with Twenty Eminent Cognitive Scientists

Speaking Minds: Interviews with Twenty Eminent Cognitive Scientists

by PeterBaumgartner (Author)

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    Hardcover 1995

    $5.87
Synopsis

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 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? Twenty leading researchers address this and other vexing questions in the fields that make up cognitive science.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 346
 Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 05 May 1995
ISBN 10: 0691036780
ISBN 13: 9780691036786

Media Reviews
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.---Richard Cooper, The Times Higher Education Supplement
The frank and friendly style of the interviews makes the book both 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.---Richard Cooper, The Times Higher Education Supplement
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. --Steven Pinker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
These interviews provide fascinating glimpses into the conceptual schemes of some of the leading thinkers in cognitive science and philosophy of mind. The presentation of so many diverse viewpoints is both informative and entertaining. --Paul Thagard, University of Waterloo
I really like this book. The editors have done a first-class job--the canonical insiders take on Artificial Intelligence and cognitive science. As they suggest, the book is best read as a kind of hypertext, slipping between the various responses to the core questions used to organize the interviews. The result is an invaluable teaching resource and a very good read. --Andy Clark, Washington University
Baumgartner and Payr have compiled a fascinating collection of the stories that cognitive scientists tell to motivate themselves. The difficulties they encounter get as much attention as their accomplishments in these frank and revealing dialogues. It is cognitive science with a human face. --George A. Miller, Princeton University