Speaking minds
Subtitle: interviews with twenty eminent cognitive scientists
By: edited by Peter Baumgartner and Sabine Payr.
Contributors: Baumgartner, Peter, 1953-; Payr, Sabine, 1956-
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: Cognitive science; Scientists -- Interviews
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-335) and indexes.