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 again make available previously out-of-print books from the
distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These
editions preserve the original texts of these important books while
presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The
goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access
to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books
published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
