Mind Design

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This book collects the most influential recent essay dealing with a new approach to understanding the mind--some searching for basic principles, others exploring theoretical implications, still others attacking the whole idea."Mind Design" is conceived as a sequel to Alan Ross Anderson's "Minds and Machines" , augmenting it and bringing it up to date. It is intended not only for professionals in the cross-disciplinary areas of philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence and computer science, and the cognitive and neuroscience generally; it is also designed as a student book for such courses as Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, Basics of Cognitive Science, Issues in Artificial Intelligence--not to mention such general-interest, popular courses as Minds and Machines, Computers and Society.Contents: "Semantic Engines: An Introduction to Mind Design, " John C. Haugeland; "Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry: Symbols and Search, " Alan Newell and Herbert A. Simon; "Complexity and the Study of Artificial and Human Intelligence, " Zenon Pylyshyn; "A Framework for Representing Knowledge, " Marvin Minsky; "Artificial Intelligence--A Personal View, " David Marr; "Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity, " Drew McDermott; "From Micro-Worlds to Knowledge Representation: AI at an Impasse, " Hubert L. Dreyfus; "Reductionism and the Nature of Psychology, " Hilary Putnam; "Intentional Systems, " Daniel C. Dennett; "The Nature and Plausibility of Cognitivism, " John C. Haugeland; "Minds, Brains, and Programs, " John R. Searle; "Methodological Solipsism Considered as a Research Strategy in Cognitive Psychology, " Jerry A. Fodor; "The Material Mind, " Donald Davidson.