Nachdruck von Speaking Minds: Eigenartig und erstaunlich! Ich habe gar nichts davon gewusst, bis ich (eher zufällig) im Kroatien-Urlaub (Sommer 2014) durch einen Tweet von einem Nachdruck von Speaking Minds: Interviews with 20 Eminent Cognitive Scientists in der Princeton Legacy Library durch Princeton University Press erfahren habe.
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Nachdruck von Speaking Mind: Bessere Kritiken als Erstausgabe
Interessant ist, dass dieser Nachdruck weit mehr Beachtung und auch weit bessere Kritiken bekommen hat, als die damalige Ersterscheinung vor 20 Jahren. (Siehe z.B. die drei sehr positiven Reviews in Amazon.com. Meiner Meinung hängt das einerseits damit zusammen, dass es viele Interviews von Persönlichkeiten enthält, die inzwischen leider verstorben sind. Andererseits aber denke ich, dass die philosophische Meta-Perspektive, die wir bei den Interviews zu diesem Buch eingenommen haben, nun nach einem gewissen Zeitabstand, von ihrem damaligen diskursiven Streitcharakter (Künstliche Intelligenz: Ja oder Nein) bereinigt sind. Die Interviews geben nicht nur einen Einblick in das Theoriegebäude der interviewten KognitionswissenschaftlerInnen, sondern sind in ihrer Gesamtheit ein wichtiges Zeitdokument der damaligen (und auch heute noch aktuellen) Diskussion.
This book, though nearly twenty years old, remains of considerable value to anyone studying the philosophy of mind.
As a result of this book, I have a much better appreciation for cognitive scientists in general and AI researchers specifically. I think this should be on the short list for any aspiring AI researcher.
It was an thoroughly interesting read. The book touches on everything cog sci.
Interviewt wurden in Speaking Mind:
- 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
- Daniell C. Dennett: In Defense of AI
- Hubert L. Dreyfus: Cognitivism Abondened
- 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 Seaching 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
- Lofti A. Zadeh: The Albatross of Classical Logic
Siehe auch meinen früheren Weblog-Eintrag zur Publikation von 1995.
2 Antworten auf „Nachdruck von Speaking Minds“
Peter, I’ll be interested in looking at the book when the copy I ordered comes. While waiting to see what happens with the PURPLSOC conference in July, I thought I’d look around for conversation.
What do you think of the idea of being able to distinguish between mental and natural frameworks by locating their separate units of organization? For example, one might distinguish between „a home“ as the domain and environmental niche of a family (identifying a material unit of organization that way) and „our ideas of home“ as a mental world of inter-related thoughts about homes (identified by their organization in our thoughts).
What I’ve found is that making the distinction that way is almost universally accepted and useful in informal settings, but most often unwelcome in intellectual communities, where one or another common paradigm of abstract reasoning is expected as the basis for discussion, rather than the combination of natural language and observation. Any thoughts about that?
Jessie, thank you for sharing your thoughts with me. Unfortunately I am still not involved in your mind frame – as I have seen it at your interesting but very complex website and cannot therefore not offer productive commentaries. Please give me time to understand more of your background. The PURPLSOC conference will be an excellent occasion to get to know each other and to understand mutually the mental framework our ideas are based on.