Screen LibrarySpeaking minds : interviews with twenty eminent cognitive scientists /
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,...
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton, N.J. : |
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[1996] ©1996 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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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 1996.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books fro |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (350 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781400863969 |
| Index Number: | BF311 |
| CLC: | B842.1 |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Take It Apart and See How It Runs / Neural Networks and Commonsense / Cognition and Cultural Belief / In Defense of AI / Cognitivism Abandoned / The Folly of Simulation / Farewell to GOFAI? / Embodied Minds and Meanings / Toward a Pragmatic Connectionism / The Serial Imperative / Gestalt Psychology Redux / Against the New Associationism / From Searching to Seeing / Ontology Is the Question / The Hardware Really Matters / HERBERT A SIMON Technology Is Not the Problem -- The Myth of the Last Metaphor / Why Play the Philosophy Game? / Computers and Social Values / The Albatross of Classical Logic / GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX. |