Mind Design

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 Designis conceived as a sequel to Alan Ross Anderson's Minds and Machines(1964), 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. Haugel? 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. Haugel? Minds, Brains, and Programs,John R. Sear= Methodological Solipsism Considered as a Research Strategy in Cognitive Psychology,Jerry A. Fod? The Material Mind,Donald Davidson.